The Museum is open : towards a transnational history of museums 1750-1940
Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. A recurring assertion is that as an institution, the museum has largely functioned as a venue for the formation of specifically national identiti...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Berlin : De Gruyter,
[2014]
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| Mit dem übergeordneten Werk verknüpfte Titel: | Contact zones
volume 1 |
| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Contact zones |
| Schlagworte: | Museums -- History Museums -- Philosophy Museums Museums ; Philosophy Museums ; History Museum Nationalbewusstsein Kulturaustausch Geschichte 1750-1940 Transnationalisierung |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 265 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory - all this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. A recurring assertion is that as an institution, the museum has largely functioned as a venue for the formation of specifically national identities. This volume, by contrast, highlights the museum as a product of transnational processes of exchange, focusing on the period from 1750 to 1940. Intro -- Towards a Transnational History of Museums. An Introduction -- Museums and the Transnational Circuits of Artefacts -- The Ancient Near East in Storage. Assyrian Museum Objects as a Cultural Challenge in Victorian England -- Competition, Exchange, Comparison. Nineteenth-Century Cast Museums in Transnational Perspective -- Reproduced Art. Early Photographic Campaigns in European Collections -- Cross-border Transfers of Architectural Models and Display Principles -- Top Lighting from Paris in 1750 -- Sabine Skott A European Museum-Cocktail around 1900. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow -- The Journal Mouseion as Means of Transnational Culture. Guglielmo Pacchioni and the Dawn of the "Modern Museum" in Italy -- Close Inspections of the "Other." Commissions and Experts on Tour -- Cultural Excursions -- From Model Museum to the Fear of the Uhlan. Museum Relations between France and Germany during the Second Empire -- Admiration and Fear. The Reports of Marius Vachon on Museums of Industrial Arts in Europe -- Cosmopolitan Scholar, Servant of Art. Transnational Contexts of Igor Grabar in Early Twentieth-Century Russia -- Reforming the Museum - A Supranational Project -- Alan Crookham Art Beyond the Nation A European Vision for the National Gallery -- The Journal Museumskunde - "Another Link between the Museums of the World" -- Between Museumsinsel and Manhattan. Wilhelm R. Valentiner, Ambassador and Agent of Wilhelm von Bode at the Metropolitan Museum, 1908-1914 -- The German Museum Curators and the International Museums Office, 1926-1937 -- Museums as Transnational Sites for National Identities -- Building on the London 1881 Pretext -- Museum as a Transnational Space for National Identities. A Case Study on the Turkish Experience -- French Art for All! Museum Projects in Africa 1912-1931 between Avant-garde and Colonialism. |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (VI, 265 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 1306429870 9781306429870 9783110298826 3110298821 9783110298802 3110298805 9783110298833 311029883X |