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Title
Revisiting the past in museums and at historic sites
Type
Text
Monograph
Multimedia
Contribution
Lasc, Anca I. (Editor)
McClellan, Andrew (Editor)
Söll, Änne (Editor)
Subject
Museums--Social aspects--Case studies (LCSH)
Historic sites--Social aspects--Case studies (LCSH)
Historiography--Case studies (LCSH)
Collective memory--Case studies (LCSH)
Language
English
Classification
LCC: AM7 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
DDC: 069 full (Assigner: dlc)(Source: 23)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites demonstrates that museums and historic spaces are increasingly becoming "backdrops" for all sorts of appropriations and interventions that throw new light upon the objects they comprise and the pasts they reference. Rooted in new scholarship that expands established notions of art installations, museums, period rooms and historic sites, the book brings together contributions from scholars from intersecting disciplines. Arguing that we are witnessing a paradigm shift concerning the place of historic spaces and museums in the contemporary imaginary, the volume shows that such institutions are merging traditional scholarly activities tied to historical representation and inquiry with novel modes of display and interpretation, drawing them closer to the world of entertainment and interactive consumption. Case studies analyse how a range of interventions impact historic spaces and conceptions of the past they generate. The book concludes that museums and historic sites are reinventing themselves, in order to remain meaningful and to play a role in societies aspiring to be more inclusive and open to historical and cultural debate. Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites will be of interest to students and faculty who are engaged in the study of museums, art history, architectural and design history, social and cultural history, interior design, visual culture, and material culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Introduction: Space unlocked, history unfrozen : revising the past in museums and at historic sites / Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll
A way forward for plantation sites : reimagining space and relations in the wake of Black Lives Matter / Hannah Scruggs and Tiya Miles
Hollywood and changing interpretations of a historic plantation / Kathleen Powers Conti
Reanimaging literary house museums in France : the homes and haunts of George Sand and Honoré de Balzac / Elizabeth Emery
Holiday decorations, commercialism and nostalgia in the UK historic house interior / Anne Nellis Richter and Morna O'Neill
Housing remembrance : Simon Fujiwara's appropriation of the Anne Frank House / Stefan Krämer
Negotiating tsarist heritage : Marxist everyday-life museum displays in the Soviet Union, 1920-1930s / Maria Silina
Dwelling in the past continuous : Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark and the Hermitage's genii loci / Véronique Protoeau
Salvador Dali's rainy taxi at the museum : the disruption of surrealist installations / Sandra Zalman
A refuge and asylum : perforating the boundaries of the hermetic exhibition space in the 1960s and 1970s / Ana Torok
Revolting hunting trophies : Art Orienté objet at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature / Sarah Wade
The period room as a crystal of time / Marie-Ève Marchand
The Gilded Age revisited : Yinka Shonibare CBE at the Newark Museum of Art / Christa Clarke
Bringing stories back into spaces : "Living rooms" at the Minneapolis Institute of Art / Alexander I. Bortolot and Jennifer Komar Olivarez
Moving reality TV into the period room : 1900 House / Hélène Valance.
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Revisiting the past in museums and at historic sites
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: full
Identified By: bf:Local, 22147736
Change Date: 2022-02-28T14:14:04
Creation Date: 2021-07-10
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Description Authentication: Program for Cooperative Cataloging
Assigner: United States, Library of Congress

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