Main entry:

Bennett, Tony, 1947- author.

Title & Author:

The birth of the museum : history, theory, politics / Tony Bennett.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.
©1995

Description:

x, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Series:

Culture : policies and politics

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-269) and index.
History and Theory. The formation of the museum -- The exhibition complex -- The political rationality of the museum -- Policies and Politics. Museums and 'the people' -- Out of which past? -- Art and theory : the politics of the invisible -- Technologies of Progress. Museums and progress : narrative, ideology, performance -- The shaping of things to come : Expo '88 -- A thousand and one troubles : Blackpool Pleasure Beach.

Summary:

"In a series of richly detailed studies from Britain, Australia and North America, Tony Bennett investigates how 19th and 20th century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organised their collections and their visitors. Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, Bennett sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture. Using Foucaltian perspectives The Birth of the Museum explores how the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction, but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place. This invigorating study enriches and challenges the understanding of the museum, and places it at the centre of modern relations between culture and government. For students of museum, cultural and sociology studies, this will be an asset to their reading list"--Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents
Table of contents
Publisher description
Klappentext
Klappentext

ISBN:

0415053870
9780415053877
0415053889 (pbk.)
9780415053884 (pbk.)
9781315002668
1315002663

Subject:

Heimatmuseum Amöneburg
Museums Philosophy.
Museum techniques.
Politics and culture.
Museums Management Social aspects.
Musées Philosophie.
Muséologie.
Politique et culture.
Musées Gestion Aspect social.
museology.
Geschichte
Kultur
Museumsorganisation
Museum
Musea.
Museumbeheer.
Museologia.
Politique culturelle.
Musées Politique publique.
Musées Administration Aspect social.
Musées Administration.
Museums History.
Museums Political aspects.
Museums

Added entries:

Culture (London, England)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 120384
Call No.: ID AM7.B4; ID:95-B2055
Status: Available