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A Place for Meaning: Art, Faith, and Museum Culture
Amanda Milla Hughes
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Description for A Place for Meaning: Art, Faith, and Museum Culture
Paperback. Presents a conversation about how museums might create a common ground for the exploration of art and faith. This title offers insights on the inner workings of a museum as it grappled with questions of meaning in the presentation of works of art with sacred content. Num Pages: 245 pages, 80 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: GM; HR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1016.
Learn from the Five Faiths Project at the Ackland Art Museum. With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Ackland Art Museum welcomed more than thirty professionals - museum directors, curators, educators, scholars, and faith leaders from across America - into a multiyear conversation about how museums might create a common ground for the exploration of art and faith. With candor, Amanda Millay Hughes and Carolyn H. Wood open a window on the inner workings of a museum as it grappled with questions of meaning in the presentation of works of art with sacred content. The text includes more than ... Read more
Learn from the Five Faiths Project at the Ackland Art Museum. With funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Ackland Art Museum welcomed more than thirty professionals - museum directors, curators, educators, scholars, and faith leaders from across America - into a multiyear conversation about how museums might create a common ground for the exploration of art and faith. With candor, Amanda Millay Hughes and Carolyn H. Wood open a window on the inner workings of a museum as it grappled with questions of meaning in the presentation of works of art with sacred content. The text includes more than ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
245
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780974365633
SKU
V9780974365633
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-40
About Amanda Milla Hughes
AMANDA MILLAY HUGHES is director of external affairs at the Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. CAROLYN H. WOOD is adjunct associate professor of art at the University of North Carolina
Reviews for A Place for Meaning: Art, Faith, and Museum Culture
"Without minimizing the risks and challenges, A Place for Meaning offers readers a unique opportunity to discover the benefits of taking religion and religious art seriously in museums." - Charles C. Haynes, First Amendment Center, Washington, D.C."