Narrow your search

Library

ULB (6)

LUCA School of Arts (5)

KU Leuven (3)

UGent (3)

ULiège (2)

AP (1)

EHC (1)

KDG (1)

KMSKA (1)

Middelheim (1)

More...

Resource type

book (6)


Language

English (6)


Year
From To Submit

2021 (6)

Listing 1 - 6 of 6
Sort by

Book
Libraries, archives, and museums : an introduction to cultural heritage institutions through the ages
Author:
ISBN: 9781538118894 9781538118900 9781538118917 Year: 2021 Publisher: Lanham Rowman & Littlefield

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This is the first book to consider the development of all three cultural heritage institutions – libraries, archives, and museums – and their interactions with society and culture from ancient history to the present day in Western Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The text explores the social and cultural role of these institutions in the societies that created them, as well as the political, economic and social influences on their mission, philosophy, and services and how those changed throughout time. The work provides a thorough background in the topic for graduate students and professionals in the fields of library and information science, archival studies, and museum resource management, preservation, and administration. Arranged chronologically, the story begins with the temple libraries of ancient Sumer, followed the growth and development of governmental and private libraries in ancient Greece and Rome, the influence of Asia and Islam on Western library development, the role of Christianity in the preservation of ancient literature as well as the skills of reading and writing during the Middle Ages, and the coming of the Renaissance and the rise of the university library. It continues by tracing the gradual division between archives and libraries and the growth of governmental and private libraries as independent institutions during and after the Renaissance and through the Enlightenment, and the development of public and private museums from the “cabinets of curiousities” of private collectors beginning in the 17th century. Individual chapters explore the further growth and development of libraries, archives, and museums in the 19th and 20th centuries, exploring the public library and public museum movements of those centuries, as well as the rise of the governmental and institutional archive. The final chapter discusses the growing collaboration between and even convergence of these institutions in the 21st century and the impact of modern information technology, and makes predictions about the future of all three institutions.


Book
The art museum in modern times
Author:
ISBN: 9780500022436 0500022437 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Thames and Hudson

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's leadership, making him uniquely qualified to explore the ways in which art museums have changed over the past century and examine where they might be headed in the future. For this book, Saumarez Smith has undertaken an odyssey to art museums across the globe. From Tate Modern in London to the Benesse House Museum on the Japanese island of Naoshima; from the Getty Center in Los Angeles to the Museum of New and Old Art, a ferry-ride from Hobart in Tasmania; from the Pompidou Centre in Paris to the West Bund Museum in Shanghai - he has visited them all, casting an acute eye on the way the experience of art is shaped by the buildings that house it and the organizing principles by which it is displayed. What has changed over the past century? Where the public once visited museums to be educated in art history, he argues, they are now more likely to be in search of a private, aesthetic experience. Museum displays that were automatically didactic, chronological and either national or Western in viewpoint are now thematic and global. While museums used to be invariably in city centres, they may now be in remote locations, destinations of cultural pilgrimage. And where architects once created neutral spaces in which to display art, they now build spectacular architectural landmarks, stamping an identity on run-down neighbourhoods and sparking regeneration through cultural tourism.


Book
documenta - politics and art
Authors: --- --- --- --- --- et al.
ISBN: 9783791379203 3791379208 9783861022237 3861022230 Year: 2021 Publisher: Munich Prestel

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Every few years since 1955, the creators of documenta set themselves the task of providing an insight into current trends in art and of capturing the zeitgeist of recent art production.Despite its name, documenta's primary concerns are neither with the simple documentation of individual artists and their work nor with developments in art history, but instead with providing a historical space where art reflects and comments on social constellations and political or social change, or demands it through art interventions. documenta is not only a historical testimony and event, but also a show at which?throu the medium of art?self-interpretation becomes the catalyst for debate and historical change. For the first time, this book places the history of documenta in the context of the political, cultural and societal development of Germany during the second half of the twentieth century, illustrating how art and history can be explored in terms of a mutually dependent relationship.


Book
Radicalizing care : feminist and queer activism in curating
Authors: --- --- --- ---
ISBN: 9783956795909 3956795903 Year: 2021 Publisher: London Sternberg Press

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

What happens when feminist and queer care ethics are put into curating practice? What happens when the notion of care based on the politics of relatedness, interdependence, reciprocity, and response-ability informs the practices of curating? Delivered through critical theoretical essays, practice-informed case studies, and manifestos, the essays in this book offer insights from diverse contexts and geographies. These texts examine a year-long program at the Schwules Museum Berlin focused on the perspectives of women, lesbian, inter, non-binary, and trans people at the Schwules Museum; the formation of the Queer Trans Intersex People of Colour Narratives Collective in Brighton; Métis Kitchen Table Talks, organized around indigenous knowledge practices in Canada; complex navigations of motherhood and censorship in China; the rethinking of institutions together with First Nations artists in Melbourne; the reanimation of collectivity in immigrant and diasporic contexts in welfare state spaces in Vienna and Stockholm; struggles against Japanese vagina censorship; and an imagined museum of care for Rojava. Strategies include cripping and decolonizing as well as emergent forms of digital caring labor, including curating, hacking, and organizing online drag parties for pandemic times.


Book
Everything passes except the past : decolonizing ethnographic museums, film archives, and public space
Author:
ISBN: 9783956796012 3956796012 Year: 2021 Publisher: Brüssel : Goethe-Institut,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips with a colonial past that remains present in museums, public space, and image archives. The contributions in this book propose visionary theoretical, practical, and ethical foundations for future museums based on artistic and curatorial remediation of ethnographic collections. They also cover the role of colonial films in our collective and national memory, as well as the challenges and perspectives of tearing down or replacing monuments and renaming streets. - Contributions by YAA ADDÆ NANTWI, LOTTE ARNDT, ANDRÉS ANTEBI ARNÓ, BIANCA BALDI, DANIEL BLAUFUKS, FILIPA CÉSAR, DIDI CHEEKA, CLÉMENTINE DELISS, KARFA DIALLO, SALLY FENAUX BARLEYCORN, ALESSANDRA FERRINI, FRADIQUE, PABLO GONZÁLES MORANDI, GUIDO GRYSEELS, JANA J. HAECKEL, DIDIER HOUÉNOUDÉ, DUANE JETHRO, CHRISTIAN KOPP, YANN LEGALL, ALBERTO LÓPEZ BARGADOS, ELOY MARTÍN CORRALES, GRACE NDIRITU, INÊS PONTE, LINDA PORN, TAMER EL SAID, BÉNÉDICTE SAVOY, STEFANIE SCHULTE STRATHAUS, MNYAKA SURURU MBORO


Book
Curating Digital Art : From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation
Author:
ISBN: 9789493246010 9493246019 Year: 2021 Publisher: Amsterdam Valiz

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

What is the role of the curator when organizing digital art exhibitions in offline and online spaces? Analyzing the influence and impact of curating digital art, the book focuses on how the experiments of curators, artists and designers opened the possibility to reconfigure traditional models and methods for presenting and accessing digital art. In the process, it addresses how web-based practices challenge certain established museological values and precipitate alternative ways of understanding art's stewardship, curatorial responsibility, public access and art history. Through more than twenty interviews with artists and curators in the course of the last ten years, and flanked by an extensive timeline, the reader of this publication is given an insight into the discourse on digital art and its curation today.

Listing 1 - 6 of 6
Sort by