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The Resource Revisiting the past in museums and at historic sites, edited by Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll

Revisiting the past in museums and at historic sites, edited by Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll

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"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"--
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eng
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x, 264 pages
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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9780367707293
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Revisiting the past in museums and at historic sites
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Revisiting the past in museums and at historic sites
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edited by Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll
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Language
eng
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"--
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  • Lasc, Anca I.,
  • McClellan, Andrew,
  • Söll, Änne,
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Routledge research in museum studies
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  • Museums
  • Historic sites
  • Historiography
  • Collective memory
  • Musées
  • Lieux historiques
  • Mémoire collective
  • Collective memory
  • Historic sites
  • Historiography
  • Museums
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Revisiting the past in museums and at historic sites, edited by Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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rdacarrier
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text
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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
Control code
1261773931
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 264 pages
Isbn
9780367707293
Lccn
2021026657
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40030943073
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1261773931
Label
Revisiting the past in museums and at historic sites, edited by Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
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
Control code
1261773931
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
x, 264 pages
Isbn
9780367707293
Lccn
2021026657
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
40030943073
Other physical details
illustrations
System control number
(OCoLC)1261773931

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