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From: "Charlotte Frost" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Book suggestion
Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 18:46:38 +0100
Off the top of my head, a classic text is:
Marcia Pointon (Editor) (1994) Art Apart: Museums
in North America and Britain Since 1800
(Manchester University Press)
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:55:41 -0700
Thread-Topic: [anthrodesign] Digest Number 695
From: "Tracey Lovejoy" <[log in to unmask]>
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Ken, one of the best classes I've ever taken is
'the anthropology of museums' with Professors
Morris Fred & Ray Fogelson.
Morrie, do you have a syllabus that you could
share with Ken? He is looking for text books "for
a course designed to introduce students to the
realities of the museum and gallery world and
professional practice in the museum and gallery
field".
Many thanks,
Tracey
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From: Pete Hindle <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: books on art galleries
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 00:18:51 +0100
Hi;
My suggestion would be Tod Volpe's "Framed: Tales
of the Art Underworld". Whilst obviously highly
subjective, and to be taken with a pinch of salt,
it does allow some small insight into commercial
gallery owners.
Looking forward to hearing the other suggestions;
Pete
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 16:45:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: morrie fred <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Information request
attached is last year's syllabus--the course is a
two-quarter seminar, the spring of which has
students focusing on group fieldwork projects of
museums in the Chicago area.
Please feel free to call me if you have any questions.
Regards,
Morrie Fred
Anthropology 34500/1: The Anthropology of Museums
WINTER/SPRING 2005
Instructors: Profs. Ray Fogelson and Morrie Fred
T.A.: Anwen Tormey
Available at Seminary Coop(*); individual articles available on e-reserve
Sessions I (Jan. 5): Introduction (note also:
film "Downside UP", Jan. 6 1:30 PICK 16)
Session II (Jan. 12): Issues in American Museums
*Anderson, Gail (ed.) Reinventing the Museum. AltaMira (2004).
*Dewalt & Dewalt, pp. 1-34.
Graburn, Nelson. "The Anthropology of Tourism."
Annals of Tourism Research. Vo. 10, 9-33 (1983).
Session III (January 19): America
Presents/Contains the World: the Columbian
Exposition and Beyond
*Appelbaum, Stanley. The Chicago World's Fair of 1893. Dover, 1983.
Bennett, Tony. "The Exhibitionary Complex." In
Bennett, T. The Birth of the Museum. New York:
Routledge, pp. 59-88, 1995.
Fogelson, Ray. "The Red Man in the White City,"
In David H. Thomas, ed. Columbian Consequences,
Vol. III: 73-90.Washington: Smithsonian, 1991.
Harvey, Penelope. "Nations on Display: Technology
and Culture in Expo '92." In MacDonald, Sharon,
ed. The Politics of Display. pp. 139-158. London:
Routledge, 1998.
Hinsley, Curtis. "The World as Marketplace:
Commodification of the Exotic at the World's
Columbian Exposition." In Exhibiting Cultures,
pp. 344-364.
Pierpont, Claudia Roth. "The Measure of America:
How an Anthropologist Waged War on Racism." The
New Yorker. March 8, 2004, pp. 48-63.
Rydell, Robert W. "Introduction." Fair America.
Pp. 1-13. Smithsonian Press (2000).
Woods, Virna. "The Waifs of the White City."
Session IV (January 26): Digging Up the Past:
Hands-On the Tell. Guest: Curator Susan Bass
Marcus. Spertus Museum: 618 S. Michigan
Prep. Articles for visit to ARTiFACT Center
Caulton, Tim. "The Educational Context" in Hands-on Exhibitions, pp. 17-38.
Doering, Zahava. "Strangers, Guests, or Clients?
Visitor Experiences in Museums." 42 Curator 74
(1999).
Falk, John H. and Lynn Dierking. "The Interactive
Experience Model." In The Museum Experience, pp.
1-7, 97-114.
Hein, Hilde. "Museums and Education." The Museum in Transition. Pp. 108-126.
Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. "Communication in Theory and Practice."
Hooper-Greenhill, Eilean. "Museum learners as
active postmodernists: contextualizing
constructivism"
www.spertus.edu
Session V (February 2): Museum Ethnographies
Group I Reading:
*Handler, Richard and Eric Gable. The New History in an Old Museum, 1997.
Katriel, Tamar. Performing the Past, pp. 1-12.
www.history.org
Group II Reading:
*Katriel, Tamar. Performing the Past: A Study of
Israeli Settlement Museums, 1997.
Handler, Richard. in Ethnos
Everyone read:
Urry, John. "The Tourist Gaze"; "Gazing on
History." IN The Tourist Gaze. Sage (2002).
Recommended: Fjellman, Stephen M. "Culture and
Context"; "America and Consumption"; "More
Distory"; "Conclusion" in Vinyl Leaves. Westview
Press (1992).
Session VI (February 9): The State of the Art
Museum; Guest: Carol Becker: Dean, School of the
Art Institute Visit AIC or MCA before session
Becker, Carol. "When Cultures Come into Contention."
Becker, Carol. "Social Responsibility and the Place of the Artist in Society>"
Duncan, Carol. "The Art museum as Ritual." Civilizing Rituals. pp. 7-20.
Genoways, Hugh. "The Working Museum." In Museum Administration, pp. 39-73.
Harris, Neil. "The Divided House of the American
Art Museum." Daedalus, Summer 1999, pp. 13-56.
Sirefman, Susanna. "Formed and Forming:
Contemporary Museum Architecture." Daedalus, pp.
297-320.
www.artic.edu; www.mcachicago.org
Session VII: (Feb. 16): National Museum of the
American Indian; Guests: Craig Howe; Robert
Donnelley
The Native American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Act of 1990: Arizona State Law
Journal. Vol. 24: 175-191 (Strickland) (1992).
Conan, Neal. "Smithsonian National Museum of the
American Indian." Talk of the Nation: NPR (Sept.
20, 2004).
Fred, Morris A. "Law and Identity: Negotiating
Meaning in the Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Act," in International Journal
of Cultural Property, Vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 199-229
(1997).
Howe, Craig. "Exhibiting Indians: Communities,
Collaboration and Control." Exhibitionist. Spring
2001.
Huhndorf, Shari. Going Native: Indians in the
American Cultural Imagination, pp. 19-64.
Ruffins, Fath. "Mythos, Memory and History." IN
Ivan Karp Museums and Communities. Pp. 506-592.
www.nmai.si.edu
Session VIII (Saturday, February 26): Natural
Museums (Lincoln Park Zoo); Host: Steve Ross,
Curator of Large Mammals
Committee on the Review of the Smithsonian's
National Zoological Park. "Animal Care and
Management at the National Zoo: Executive
Summary." The National Academy of Sciences (2004).
*Hanson, Elizabeth. Animal Attractions. Princeton U. Press (2002).
Rosenthal, Mark, et al. Ark in the Park, pp. 15-20; 118-130; 139-159; 172-180.
www.lpzoo.com ; www.brookfieldzoo.org
Session IX (March 2): Museum Controversies; Review for Final
Bolton, Richard (ed.), Culture Wars, pp. 3-31; 220-213.
Cole, Catherine. "Sex and Death on Display." 37 The Drama Review 43 (1993).
Dubin, Steven. "A matter of perspective:
revisionist history and The West as America.."
Dubin, Steven. Arresting Images. Routledge (1992), pp. 26-43; 102-124; 278-293.
Gieryn, Thomas. "Balancing Acts: Science, Enola
Gay and History Wars at the Smithsonian. In
Macdonald, ed., pp. 197-228.
Rothfield, Lawrence (Ed.), Unsettling
"Sensation", pp. 1-14 Introduction (Rothfield);
44-51 (Strauss); 72-92 (Schuster).
Teslow, Tracy Lang. "Reifying Race: Science and
Art in Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of
Natural History." In Sharon Macdonald, ed. The
Politics of Display. pp. 53-75.
Truettner, William H. "Ideology and image:
justifying westward expansion." In The West as
America.
Final exam: March 9
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:23:22 +0200
From: Katja Lindqvist <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken,
I definitely am at home in the field you ask
about. Actually there perhaps isn't one book that
comprises everything in a good way. But for you
to have something to start with, you could check
my dissertation, that I sent you, for references.
Furthermore, you could check Leicester University
Bookshop's booklet on museum studies, where they
have collected all literature they've found on
the topic of galleries and museums. That you
would hopefully find on the net, but they also
have an address list to which they mail the
booklet once a year. That would be most useful to
you as an introduction, I think.
Someone on the ACORN list recommended
sociological literature, which I think is good.
But, try to choose European literature if your
course is in Norway, the american system doesn't
apply here, as you know. However, one good
american book that I've found is "Creative
industires" by Richard Caves, at Harvard UP.
Perhaps more broad than your intended book, but
good as overall discussion of the creative and
aesthetic field.
Remember the French are good on sociology in the
art field, Raymonde Moulin, Pierre Bourdieu, and
Jean-Pierre Menger.
If you want more suggestions, please email me. I'd be happy to help you.
Warmest regards,
Katja
Katja Lindqvist
Fil.dr, Företagsekonomiska institutionen
Stockholms universitet 106 91 Stockholm
PhD, Stockholm University School of Business 106 91 Stockholm Sweden
Visiting scholar at Dipartimento di Discipline
Economico-Aziendali, University of Bologna
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 08:32:44 +0100
From: "Bonnick, Nicola J" <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken
I think there are probably quite a few that meet
these criteria - a perennial favourite on the MA
Curating Contemporary Design course here at
Kingston University is 'The New Museology,' which
is a collection of essays:
http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/titles/critical_newmuseology.html
One of the foremost publishers of books on
museology used to be Leicester University, I
think their books are now published by Continuum:
www.continuumbooks.com
Regards
Nicola Bonnick
Library Services (Art, Design & Architecture)
Kingston University
Knights Park
Kingston upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2QJ
Tel: 020 8547 7057
Fax. 020 8547 8039
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:46:23 +0200
From: Kjetil Fallan <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken! (Perhaps it is silly to answer you in
English, but your request was an international
one, so..)
Given the outline of the course, I immediately
came to think of a book I read some years ago
(incidentally while I was myself working at a
museum - Vestlandske kunstindustrimuseum, Bergen)
which at least had a thought-provoking effect on
me:
Neil Cummings and Marysia Lewandowska, The Value
of Things (London/Basel: August/Birkhäuser, 2000)
The book juxtaposes the museum and the department
store - exemplifed, but not limited to, the
British Museum and Selfridges' - as archetypes of
value-changing arenas in the sphere of material
culture. The authors are artists, and one of
their hypothesis is that the museum is becoming
more and more like a department store, and the
department store is becoming more and more like a
museum - cf. the expansion of museum stores and
the proliferation of exclusive shop displays.
Based on this assertion, they set out to explore
how this effects the way we relate to both
collection and retail, and the way in which we
attribute value to the objects on display. The
layout of the book is rather annoying, though,
with several different types of text running
parallel, making it unnecessarily hard to read.
But I still believe it might suit your needs.
The course sounds very interesting, and I wish you the best of luck!
Regards
Kjetil Fallan
Research Fellow & Doctoral Candidate
Dept. of Architectural Design, Form and Colour Studies
Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art
Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
N-7491 Trondheim, Norway
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:14:49 +0200
From: Louise Mazanti <[log in to unmask]>
Dear Ken,
The following anthology is really recommendable:
Reesa Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson and Sandy
Nairne: "Thinking about Exhibitions", Routledge,
1996.
At Art History, the University of Aarhus, there
is a lecturer, Ane Hejlskov, who has been
teaching museology for several years. She is
definitely a capacity. Homepage:
http://www.hum.au.dk/dk/kunsthis/kunahl/home.htm
Al best wishes,
Louise
Louise Mazanti
Ph.D. Scholar
Denmark's Design School
Strandboulevarden 47
DK - 2100 Copenhagen E.
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:30:57 +0100
From: Richard Farr <[log in to unmask]>
Organization: London Metropolitan University
Ken,
Here's a couple of titles from our catalogue:
Heritage, museums and galleries : an introductory
reader / edited by Gerard Corsane
Imprint London : Routledge, 2005
Descript. xiv, 392 p. : ill ; 26 cm
Museum studies : an anthology of contexts / edited by Bettina Messias Carbonell
Imprint Malden, Mass. ; Oxford : Blackwell, c2004
Descript. xxxiii, 640p ; 25cm
Richard.
Richard Farr, Subject Librarian
London Metropolitan University [City Campus]
ILRC
41 Commercial Road, London E1 1LA
020-7320 1868
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Search by Ken Friedman
Following a suggestion from Nicola Bonnick, I did
a search for the Leicester University Bookshop.
The university's museums program maintains a rich
web site at
http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/index.html
The Research Centre for Museums and Galleries
(RCMG) has published a large series of research
reports. These are available in proint form, and
they are also available as free dowloadable .pdf
copies from
http://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/bookshop/rcmg_publications.htm
Information on available titles follows.
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RCMG publications
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Buried in the Footnotes: the representation of
disabled people in museum and gallery collections.
October 2004
A one year research project funded by the Arts
and Humanities Research Board's Innovations
Awards scheme and undertaken by the Research
Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG),
Department of Museum Studies, University of
Leicester.
Download a copy of the report (.pdf file, 1013Kb)
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Inspiration, Identity, Learning: The value of Museums
September 2004
Publication based on an evaluation of the impact
of DCMS/DfES Strategic Commissioning 2003-2004
National/Regional Education Partnerships.
Download a copy of the report (.pdf file, 2103Kb)
Download a full report of the research data in sections (.pdf files, see list)
Titles and Contents (40Kb)
Summary (39Kb)
Section 1 Context and background (38Kb)
Section 2 Research Methods (131Kb)
Section 3 The 12 projects described (119Kb)
Section 4 Data collection using Forms C and E (117Kb)
Section 5 Developing a picture of the impact of
museum provision for schools: the teachers, the
pupils and the schools involved (142Kb)
Section 6 How museums are used by teachers (58Kb)
Section 7 Valuing the five Generic Learning Outcomes (90Kb)
Section 8 What did the pupils learn? The teachers' views (423Kb)
Section 9 What did the pupils learn? The pupils' views (424Kb)
Section 10 The case-studies (616Kb)
Section 11 Conclusions - inspiration, identity,
learning: the value of museums (356Kb)
Appendices (189Kb)
Appendix 1 Research Tools
Appendix 2 Completed Form H
Appendix 3 Teachers' Themes
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A catalyst for Change: The Social Impact of the
Museum August 2002 (Now out of print. Free pdf
file for download below.) Further details
Download a free copy (.pdf file 423Kb) 1 898489
26 2
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Learning Through Culture February 2002 A guide to
good practice based on the DfES Museum and
Gallery Education Programme Further details
Download a free copy (.pdf file 1.2Mb) 1 898489
246
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Seeing the museum through the visitors' eyes: an
evaluation of the Education Challenge Fund
February 2002 An evaluation showing the impact of
a regional programme to increase the educational
capacity of museums. Further details Download a
free copy (.pdf file, 350Kb) 1 898489 254 £10.00
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Researching Learning in Museums and Galleries
1990-1999 January 2002 An overview of current
knowledge of learning in museums. Further details
Download a free copy (.pdf file, 202Kb) 1 898489
238 £20.00
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Making Meaning in Art Museums 2: Visitors'
Interpretive Strategies at Nottingham Castle
Museum and Art Gallery November 2001 2nd in the
series exploring what interpretive strategies and
repertoires are deployed by art museum visitors.
What are the implications for communication
policies in art museums? Further details
Download a free copy of the complete report (.pdf
file, 177Kb) 1 898489 20 3 £12.00
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Including Museums: Perspectives on Museums,
galleries and social inclusion July 2001 A
framework for reflecting upon, and engaging with
the fundamental issues and questions raised by
the inclusion agenda. Further details Download a
free copy (.pdf file, 761Kb) 1 898489 19 X £15.00
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Evaluating Creativity: The Evaluation of 10
Gallery Education Projects of Encompass 2000
March 2001 Approaches to evaluation, including a
toolkit, the value of the projects, and lessons
learnt from the initiative as a whole. Further
details Download a free copy (.pdf file, 244kb)
1 898489 18 1 £8.00
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Making Meaning in Art Museums 1: Visitors'
Interpretive Strategies at Wolverhampton Art
Gallery February 2001 What sets of ideas, ranges
of vocabulary, and personal associations do
visitors have when discussing paintings? Further
details. Short summary Download a free copy of
the complete report (.pdf file, 170Kb) 1 898489
17 3 £12.00
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Museums and social Inclusion: The GLLAM Report
October 2000 An advocacy document showing the
contribution of large local authority museums to
the social inclusion agenda. Further details.
Download a free copy of the complete report (.pdf
file, 1.06Mb) 1 898489 16 5 £15.00
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Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:20:49 +0100 (BST)
From: daniela <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: "Thinking About Exhibitions"
Dear Ken Friedman,
I encourage you to look up an anthology titled
"Thinking About Exhibitions," eds. Rosa
Greenberg, Bruce W. Ferguson, Sandy Neirne (NY:
Routledge, 1996). It covers a good part of the
issues you've mentioned: museums and galleries as
knowledge circuits, blockbuster exhibitions'
market-oriented ideologies, spatial issues,
career in curatorial practice (the crossovers
between art writing and policy making) and
others...
I'm sure it'll be of use to you and your students.
Best,
Daniela de Castro e Silva
Editorial Coordenation
Paço das Artes Centre for Contemporary Art
SP, Brazil
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