Title & Author:

Contemporary cultures of display / edited by Emma Barker.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999.

Description:

266 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm

Series:

Art and its histories ; bk. 6

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part 1: The changing museum. The modern art museum / Christoph Grunenberg ; The museum in a postmodern era : the Musée d'Orsay / Emma Barker ; The Sainsbury Wing and beyond : the National Gallery today / Emma Barker and Anabel Thomas -- Part 2: Exhibition-ism. Exhibitions of contemporary art / Sandy Nairne ; Exhibiting the canon : the blockbuster show / Emma Barker ; Africa on display : exhibiting art by Africans / Elsbeth Court -- Part 3: Art in the wider culture. The museum in the community : the new Tates / Emma Barker ; Heritage and the country house / Emma Barker ; Contemporary art in Ireland, part one : institutions, viewers and artists / Nick Webb and Emma Barker ; Contemporary art in Ireland, part two : Alice Maher and Willie Doherty -- location, identity and practice / Fionna Barber.

Summary:

"This is the last of the six books in the series Art and its Histories, which form the main text of an Open University second-level course"--Preface.

Resources:
Table of contents
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ISBN:

0300077823 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780300077827 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0300077831 (paper ; alk. paper)
9780300077834 (paper ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Art Exhibition techniques.
Art museums Public relations.
Art Museums Public relations.
Art 20e siècle Expositions.
Art Techniques d'exposition.
Art Musées Relations publiques.
Art, Modern.
Ausstellungstechnik
Präsentation
Ausstellungsbau
Kunstmuseum
Tentoonstellingen.
Inrichting.
Museologia.
Museus de arte.
Curadoria museológica.
Muséologie.
Public relations Art museums
Museums

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Barker, Emma.
Art and its histories ; bk. 6.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 209347
Call No.: N6490 .C6 1999
Status: Available