The poetic museum reviving historic collections
Author Julian Spalding maintains that both approaches devalue visiting museums and galleries. The frontiers of knowledge, he argues, are no longer collectible as they were during the Enlightenment, when museums became a central way of understanding natural and human history. Using examples as varied...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Munich New York
Prestel
2002
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Add Tag | Summary: | Author Julian Spalding maintains that both approaches devalue visiting museums and galleries. The frontiers of knowledge, he argues, are no longer collectible as they were during the Enlightenment, when museums became a central way of understanding natural and human history. Using examples as varied as the Louvre in Paris, the Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC, the State Museum of Political History in St Petersburg and the Asian Civilizations Museum in Singapore, Spalding illustrates how to use objects and artefacts to create profound and poetic insights into the past. |
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| Physical Description: | 184 pages illustrations 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 3791326783 9783791326788 |
Museum studies an anthology of contexts