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Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions
Shelley Ruth Butler
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Description for Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions
Paperback. Scholars are challenged to create their own exhibitions. Num Pages: 400 pages, 30 photos. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 332 x 25. Weight in Grams: 612.
What if museum critics were challenged to envision their own exhibitions? In Curatorial Dreams, fourteen authors from disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities propose exhibitions inspired by their research and critical concerns to creatively put theory into practice. Pushing the boundaries of museology, this collection gives rare insight into the process of conceptualizing exhibitions. The contributors offer concrete, innovative projects, each designed for a specific setting in which to translate critical academic theory about society, culture, and history into accessible imagined exhibitions. Spanning Australia, Barbados, Canada, Chile, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States, the ... Read more
What if museum critics were challenged to envision their own exhibitions? In Curatorial Dreams, fourteen authors from disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities propose exhibitions inspired by their research and critical concerns to creatively put theory into practice. Pushing the boundaries of museology, this collection gives rare insight into the process of conceptualizing exhibitions. The contributors offer concrete, innovative projects, each designed for a specific setting in which to translate critical academic theory about society, culture, and history into accessible imagined exhibitions. Spanning Australia, Barbados, Canada, Chile, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States, the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
McGill-Queen´s University Press Canada
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9780773546837
SKU
V9780773546837
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About Shelley Ruth Butler
Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Erica Lehrer is Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies at Concordia University.
Reviews for Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions
" This book takes the wonderfully original idea to get those who usually write about museums to come up with proposals for their ' dream' exhibitions. The result is thought-provoking and sometimes brilliantly inventive." Sharon Macdonald, Humbolt-Universita t zu Berlin "A ground-breaking book." Robert Fulford, National Post " A highly inventive and intellectually rewarding approach to thinking about the world." ... Read more