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Barnes, Amy Jane
(2017).
URL: https://www.routledge.com/The-Thing-about-Museums-...
Abstract
In this part of the book, we turn to the different strategies and forms through which museums might utilise objects to make representations and to tell stories. It follows on logically from the second part: for although it continues to explore and problematise the role of objects within exhibitionary settings, the previous emphasis on how visitors experience and respond to objects as material things is now complemented with a focus on the different strategies and forms through which museums do, or could, use objects to make representations and tell stories. The diversity of subjects represented in the following chapters - contemporary art museums, historical costume, collector-donors, missing and absent objects, and "relics" of Arctic expeditions - reflect not only a range of museum representations generally, but also the breadth of Susan Pearce's interests and some of the spheres in which her writing and teaching has been influential.
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- Item ORO ID
- 75104
- Item Type
- Book Section
- ISBN
- 0-8153-4676-X, 978-0-8153-4676-0
- Keywords
- museum exhibits; museum techniques
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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities > Art History
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) > Arts and Humanities
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2012 Sandra Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov and Jennifer Walklate for selection and editorial matter, © individual chapters, the contributors
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- Amy Jane Barnes