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Recent Books and Articles on Museums and Galleries -- Long Post -- 2/4

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Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>

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Ken Friedman <[log in to unmask]>

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Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:11:31 +0200

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 16:59:22 +1000
From: David Sless <[log in to unmask]>

Dear Ken,

Back in about 1982-3 when I was thinking about 
setting up CRIA, one  of my research assistants 
compiled a bibliography on work done on 
evaluating the effectiveness of museums exhibits. 
It has sat in a box  (card file index) all those 
years. I commissioned it because I  thought that 
was one of the areas of research that CRIA would 
become  involved in. It never happened. Instead 
we got involved in research  on forms design for 
the public service! But somewhere in our 
archives, we have the box. If someone can put it 
to good use, we  would happily donate it to them.

David
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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:44:27 +0100
Subject: Museums and so on
From: Deborah Jones <[log in to unmask]>

Hello

In 'One Place After Another; site-specific art 
and locational identity'(MIT Press 2002), Miwon 
Kwon gives an historical summary of works in 
which artists critique the institutional frame of 
the museum (focussed on North America. Its quite 
brief - a small part of the book, which is more 
concerned with art beyond the museum - but it 
rightly covers the artists response to 
institutions as part of the journey outward.

As a contextual artist, I also find parts of 
'Relational Aesthetics' by Nicolas Bourriaud (Les 
presses du reel 2002) very interesting on this 
general area - though it is again someone talking 
about contemporary art practice and how artists 
relate to these (and other) contexts, so its not 
a logical or thorough analysis. His writing style 
- or it could be the translation into English - 
was tricky for me, but there are some gems in it 
so worth a look, I'd suggest.

Best wishes

Deborah

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 11:35:16 +0200
Reply-To: Olav Velthuis <[log in to unmask]>


Dear Ken,

I just have a book out on the subject: Talking 
Prices, published this summer by Princeton 
University Press. Accidentally, the Financial 
Times today has an article on it in its weekend 
supplement (unfortunately only available in the 
UK).

The book is mainly a sociological analysis of the 
social and cultural meanings which gallery prices 
have for artists, collectors, art dealers, and 
museums. But chapters of the book delve into the 
way social relationships are constructed in the 
art world, the way market and gift exchange 
interact on the art market, and the solutions art 
galleries find to deal with the ever-present 
tension between art and commerce (my argument is 
that you can 'read' the morals of the market into 
the architecture of the art gallery, with its 
strict separation of a non-commerical, museumlike 
front space, and a backspace where, away from the 
public, business is conducted).

Hope this is of interest to you,

Olav Velthuis

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 07:10:15 -0500
From: Christena Nippert-Eng <[log in to unmask]>

Steve Dubin, Displays of Power

Christena Nippert-Eng, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Sociology
Illinois Institute of Technology
312-567-6812 (office)

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From: Alan Murdock <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: Information Request -- Recent Books 
and Articles on Museums and Galleries
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 08:13:47 -0700


Ken,

You might take a look at:

The Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist by 
Margaret Lazzari (Wadsworth Publishing, 2001 
ISBN: 0155062026)

There is a section for students from BFA and MFA 
programs that want to begin curating exhibitions. 
It functions on a very practical level - who to 
talk to, should you insure, nonprofit and 
recently-graduated-curator case studies, 
exhibiting performance art and objects, how high 
to hang paintings, etc. The book doesn't have an 
academic feel, but I think it is a good example 
of a cultural text that shows the state of 
professional practice for curators at the 
beginning of the 21st century.

-Alan

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 17:31:23 +0100 (BST)
From: kristina niedderer <[log in to unmask]>

Hi Ken,

there is some literature by Susan Pearce, which I 
read for my PhD. She works in the field of 
Material Culture/Museums Studies. For some 
references see below.

She has also written a course book for a 
distant-teaching course. I have a partial 
(unofficial) copy of this at home and can look 
the exact title up for you when I am back, if you 
are interested.

She might also have published some more 
teaching-oriented titles, which I don't know. 
some digging on her name might bring up some more 
useful results.

all best,

Kristina


Pearce, S. M. 1995. On Collecting. An 
Investigation into Collecting in the European 
Tradition. London: Routledge.

Pearce, S. M. (ed.). 1994. Interpreting Objects 
and Collections. London and New York: Routledge.

Pearce, S. M. (ed.) 1990. Objects of Knowledge. 
London and Atlantic Highlands: The Athlone Press.

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Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 12:18:23 -0400
From: <[log in to unmask]>


Hi Ken,

I've been editing an anthology on curating / 
presenting new media for UC Press that covers 
some of the topics you seem to be interested in 
(see TOC below).

A different version of the essay Charlie Gere 
wrote for my anthology is also available at

http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/tatepapers/04autumn/gere.htm

(you've probably seen it).

Best,

Christiane

[In press]

Christiane Paul (Editor)
Presenting New Media (working title)
Forthcoming from University of California Press
Berkeley, CA

Table of Contents
Editor's Introduction

*Positioning New Media Art and Curatorial Models
Charlie Gere, New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age
Sarah Cook, Immateriality and its Discontents -- 
An Overview of Main Models and Issues for 
Curating New Media

*Interfacing New Media
Christiane Paul, Challenges for a Ubiquitous 
Museum: From the White Cube to the Black Box and 
Beyond
Steve Dietz, Curating Net Art: A Field Guide

*From Object to Process and System
Joasia Krysa, Immaterial Production, 
Self-Replicating Systems, Re-Distributed Curating
Jon Ippolito, Death by Wall Label

*Autonomous Cultural Zones
Sara Diamond, Participation, Flow, and the 
Redistribution of Authorship -- The Challenges of 
Collaborative Exchange and New Media Curatorial 
Practice
Patrick Lichty, Reconfiguring Curation: 
Non-Institutional New Media Curating and the 
Politics of Cultural Production

*Case Studies
Beryl Graham, Serious Games
Patrick Lichty, (re)distributions: PDA, 
Information Appliance, and Nomadic Arts as 
Cultural Intervention
Caitlin Jones and Carol Stringari, Seeing Double: 
Emulation in Theory and Practice
Tilman Baumgärtel, Hans D. Christ, and Iris 
Dressler, games. Computerspiele von KünstlerInnen 
(games. computer games by artists)

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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 08:50:27 +1200
From: "Bathurst, Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>

Hi Ken

I have recently read a comprehensive arts 
management text that covers elements of 
marketing, strategy, purpose for art etc. that 
might be worth a look. Derek Chong wrote his 
piece out of museum work so it might have some 
relevance? He also spends some time on the 
critical issues via Bourdieu and Haacke

Chong, D. (2002). Arts management. New York: Routledge.

Regards

Ralph

Ralph Bathurst
Lecturer
Department of Management & International Business
Massey University, Albany Campus
Private Bag 102 904, North Shore MSC
Auckland
New Zealand
Email [log in to unmask]
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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 09:26:05 +1200
From: "Bathurst, Ralph" <[log in to unmask]>

..... here is a sample of stuff that attracted my 
attention. All the notes are direct quotes with 
pages numbers.


Abstract

1. Introduction -
2. Arts research -
3. Cultural entrepreneurship --
4. Collaborations in the arts -
5. Artistic leadership -
6. Strategic positioning and brand identity -
7. Arts marketing and audience development -
8. Management by numbers -
9. Raising funds and financing -
10. Organizational forms and dynamics

Notes

Critics identify the arts-business relationship 
as an 'exchange of capital: financial capital on 
the part of the sponsor and symbolic capital on 
the part of the sponsored' (Bourdieu & Haacke 
1995, p. 17); and corporations understand the 
commercial value to be gained by an association 
with cultural capital (Bourdieu, 1984). (p.43)

American Context Arts sponsorship was presented 
as one relatively inexpensive way of regaining 
public support. Furthermore there are often 
undisclosed personal benefits to the senior 
executives who make decisions about business 
support to the arts such as accumulating social 
prestige and displaying 'good taste' (e.g. 
Bourdieu & Haacke 1995). (p. 49)

Haacke's critique complements Erik Barrouw's The 
Sponsor (1978) and has much in common with what 
sociologist Herbert Schiller describes as 'the 
corporate takeover of public expression' 
(Schiller 1989). (p.49)

Haacke direct quote. In the 1960s the more 
sophisticated among business executives of large 
corporations began to understand that the 
association of their company's name - and 
business in general - with the arts have 
considerable and long-term benefits, far in 
excess of the capital invested in such an effort. 
(Haacke 1981, p. 56)

Direct quote The more the interests of cultural 
institutions and business become intertwined the 
less culture can play an emancipatory, cognitive, 
and critical role. Such a link will eventually 
lead the public to believe that business and 
culture are natural allies and that a questioning 
of corporate interest and conduct undermines art 
as well. Art is reduced to serving as a social 
pacifier. (Art in America, May 1990). (p.50)

Decentralization offers local units power and 
autonomy for some kind of self-organizing 
activity; at the same time, a measure of central 
control is retained. Consider the example of the 
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra (PSO) which has 
adopted hoshin (the 'shining needle' that points 
the way), a management process from Japan 
designed to make decision-making more democratic 
(see the Financial Times, 27.28 May 2000). In 
1997, the PSO faced a shortage of cash and the 
management found itself unable to accommodate a 
new trade agreement that the musicians found 
acceptable. A board member first mooted hoshin as 
a possible solution to money and management 
problems. With the support of the managing 
director, Gideon Toeplitz, and the then incoming 
music director, Mariss Jansons, a hoshin retreat 
was organised with the PSO's main constituencies: 
musicians, administrative staff, volunteers, and 
board members. Musicians gain input to board 
decisions; volunteers develop closer relations 
with staff and management; board members get to 
know the musicians that have been listening to; 
and management get input from all sides. 
Essentially a process of democratization, the 
hoshin process seeks to bring together groups 
that would normally operate independently, to set 
common goals and help each other work towards 
them. According to Toeplitz, 'Looking back, the 
biggest change we had to go through was giving up 
some control. For managers like us, this is very, 
very difficult to do'. (p.69)

The management truism, 'change is the only 
constant', applies to arts organizations. An 
aesthetic leader with management skills is a 
coveted individual. Adopting a bifurcated 
management structure, with dual executive 
positions, is one alternative solution. 
'Imaginization' concepts associated with Gareth 
Morgan are examined: the (now annual) 'New 
Displays' exhibition was initiated by Nicholas 
Serota, who sought to generate organizational 
change at the Tate Gallery; and hoshin represents 
an example of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra's 
desire to be more flexible and innovate. (p. 70)

(p. 131 Header)

Institutional isomorphism

Is there sufficient homogeneity of form and 
practice amongst opera houses to suggest that 
they represent a distinct institutional form? Can 
the like be said of television stations? This 
issue of institutional isomorphic change has been 
examined by sociologists Walter Powell and Paul 
DiMaggio. Unlike Max Weber, to whom an explicit 
reference is made in their 1983 essay, 'The iron 
cage revisited', Powell and DiMaggio contend that 
'bureaucratization and other forms of 
organizational change occur as the result of 
processes that make some organizations similar 
without necessarily making them more efficient' 
(Powell and DiMaggio 1991: 64). They argue that 
bureaucratization and other forms of 
homogenization emerge out of the structuration of 
organizational fields. The desire is not to 
explain variation among organizations in 
structure and behaviour; rather Powell and 
DiMaggio seek to understand why there is such 
startling homogeneity of organizational forms and 
practices. Isomorphism 'is the concept that best 
captures the process of homogenization'; it is 'a 
constraining process that forces one unit in a 
population to resemble other units that face the 
same set of environmental conditions' (Powell and 
DiMaggio 1991: 66). Powell, W. and DiMaggio, P. 
(eds) (1991) The new institutionalism in 
organisational analysis, Chicago and London: 
University of Chicago Press. Three mechanisms by 
which institutional isomorphic change takes place 
are identified: coercive, mimetic, and normative.

Coercive isomorphism results from both formal and 
informal pressures exerted on organizations by 
other organizations upon which they are dependent 
and by cultural expectations in the society 
within which they function. The greater the 
dependence of one organization on another (A-1) 
or the greater the centralization of an 
organization's resource supply (A-2), the more 
similar it will become to the dominant 
organization or resource supplier in structure 
and focus. Many conventional arts organizations, 
like art museums and opera houses, have 
internalized the external bureaucratic 
environment by incorporating in their structures 
administrators responsible for retailing, 
fund-raising, and marketing. This suggests that 
art museums and opera houses, for example, grow 
administratively and hierarchically in complex 
environments that are abundant in resources. 
Transactions within a complex environment 
increase the tendency of the organization to 
formalize and amplify its administrative 
functions. With reference to nonprofit arts 
organizations in the USA, sociologist Richard 
Peterson has described the internal and 
extra-organizational factors that 'typically 
operate in concert, mutually reinforcing the 
drive toward formal accountability and increasing 
the need for arts managers with the orientation 
and skills of art administrators' (Peterson 1986: 
175). Internal factors - growth in size, 
increasing task complexity, organizational life 
cycle, and the income gap associated with Baumol 
and Bowen - have been working to

(p. 132 Header) Organizational Form and Dynamics 
encourage greater bureaucratization in individual 
organizations (Peterson 1986: 169). 
Extraorganizational factors are important because 
institutional funders (whether government bodies, 
private foundations, or corporate sponsors), 
private patrons, or the market (as regards earned 
income and audience figures) increasingly hold 
arts managers formally accountable for actions 
taken in the name of the arts organization.

The funding environment is the culprit, according 
to research by McKinsey: 'All organizations - for 
profit or not - are shaped by those who fund 
them' (Lowell et al. 2000: 148). For example, 
Internet start-ups reflect the complexion of the 
venture capitalists who provided capital funding. 
Non-commercial organizations have fared less 
well: 'Nonprofits typically rely on grants and 
donations' (Lowell et al. 2000: 148). Most donors 
take 'a project-based rather than an 
organization-building approach to philanthropy' 
(Lowell et al. 2000: 149); and corporate sponsors 
also tend to focus on specific programmes. This 
means that nonprofits are discouraged from 
investing in organizational infrastructure (e.g. 
IT systems, staff development processes, and 
adequate management capacity). Managers may spend 
too much time following the money by adding 
programmes to obtain a particular grant even if 
the fit to the organization's mission is not 
great. The availability of new funding in the UK 
from the National Lottery meant that arts 
institutions had to learn to apply for this 
money. Large amounts were directed into 
capitalizing public arts projects and events. 
Institutions without substantial reserves or 
income found it harder to apply, especially since 
no funding was set aside for maintenance or lost 
revenue.

Mimetic isomorphism results from standard 
responses to uncertainty, given that uncertainty 
represents a powerful force that encourages 
imitation. An organization will model itself 
after organizations it perceives as successful, 
the more uncertain the relationship between means 
and ends (A-3) or the more ambiguous its goals 
(A-4). For example, the institutional formation 
of the V&A (as the Museum of Manufacturers and 
later the Museum of Ornamental Arts), in the 
direct aftermath of the 1851 Great Exhibition, 
devoted attention to decorative and industrial 
arts; in Philadelphia, following the 1876 
Centennial Exhibition, the Pennsylvania Museum 
and School of Industrial Arts (now the 
Philadelphia Museum of Art) was created with the 
British example in mind, namely with the value of 
the industrial arts deemed as educational and 
commercial. Likewise, the (English) Arts and 
Crafts movement was an important influence on 
decorative arts in Montreal. The MMMFA is 
explicit in acknowledging decorative arts 
alongside painting and sculpture.

Much of the homogeneity in organizational 
structures stems from the fact that, despite a 
search for diversity, there is relatively little 
variation from the pool of generally acceptable 
alternatives. Large arts organizations choose 
from a relatively small set of international 
accountancy and consultancy firms using a limited 
number of organizational models. Under the 
conventional wisdom that 'institutions trust 
institutions', corporate sponsors (as represented 
by Fortune 500 or FSTE 100 firms) tend to have 
similar aims and look for equally 'blue chip' art 
organizations for relationships. Hans Haacke 
criticized the alliance between the Metropolitan 
Museum and Mobil Oil, in MetroMobiltan (1985), by 
highlighting the multinational's commercial 
interests in South Africa under apartheid. It is 
not

(p. 133 Header) Organizational forms and dynamics 
133 surprising that Ernst & Young sponsored 
popular exhibitions at the Tate Gallery (e.g. 
Picasso, Cezanne, and Bonnard) and the Royal 
Academy of Arts (namely Monet). Capital projects 
remain a catalyst for rejuvenation, galvanizing 
support, and serving as a rallying point for key 
supports. Endowment funding is viewed by some as 
offering more financial stability to arts 
organizations, hence a push to adopt the 
fund-raising practices associated with the 
wealthiest private universities in the USA.

Normative isomorphism stems primarily from two 
aspects of professionalization: one is the 
resting of formal education and legitimation in a 
cognitive base produced by university specialists 
(A-5); the second is the growth and elaboration 
of professional networks that span organizations 
and across which new models diffuse rapidly 
(A-6). Elite academic recognition still matters: 
from an anecdotal perspective, many art museum 
directors in the UK have studied at Oxbridge or 
the Courtauld; reading art history at Williams 
College has a similar significance in the USA. 
The result from the two aspects of 
professionalization is to create a pool of almost 
interchangeable individuals who occupy similar 
positions across a range of organizations and 
possess a similarity of orientation and 
disposition that may override variations in 
tradition and control that might otherwise shape 
organizational behaviour. (Powell and DiMaggio 
1991: 71)

The filtering of personnel is an important 
mechanism for encouraging normative isomorphism. 
'Many professional career tracks are so closely 
guarded, both at the entry and throughout the 
career progression, that individuals who make it 
to the top are virtually indistinguishable' 
(Powell and DiMaggio 1991: 71). Furthermore:

The professionalization of management tends to 
proceed in tandem with the structuration of 
organizational fields. The exchange of 
information among professionals helps contribute 
to a commonly recognized hierarchy of status, of 
center and periphery, that becomes a matrix for 
information flows and personnel movement across 
organizations. This status ordering occurs 
through formal and informal means. (Powell and 
DiMaggio 1991: 72)

The case of Elizabeth Esteve-Coll, who left the 
V&A in 1995 during her second term as director to 
become one of the few women vice-chancellors in 
the UK, addresses gender imbalances: it also 
highlights an individual with a non-traditional 
background who became director of a major art 
museum. Esteve-Coll was educated as Darlington 
Girls High School and completed her BA at 
Birkbeck College (i.e. the University of London 
college which caters to mature students) in 1976. 
Her primary career experience before moving to 
the V&A, in 1985, as keeper of the National Art 
Library was in higher education (head of learning 
resources at Kingston Polytechnic and then 
university librarian at the University of 
Surrey). In 1988, Esteve-Coll was appointed 
director of the V&A; the first woman

(p. 134 Header) Organizational forms and dynamics 
134 to head a 'national museum and Qallery' in 
the UK. Media attention by those hostile to her 
appointment became even more barbed and 
aggressive following the proposed 1989 
restructuring, which focused on her background as 
a librarian without significant art history and 
curatorial experience. The 'femme-to-femme' 
comparison made by Sir John Pope-Hennessey 
(former director of the British Museum and the 
V&A) was a classic case of vitriol:

There is an excellent precedent for appointing a 
woman as director: one of the most efficient and 
successful is Anne d'Harnoncourt, the director of 
the Philadelphia Museum of Art. I do not know 
Mrs. Esteve-Coll personally, but she is clearly 
in an altogether different and inferior class. . 
. . It would be generally conceded that there is 
a point beneath which no museum should debase 
itself. But not Mrs. Esteve-Coll, who with a 
crude publicity campaign and exhibitions like 
that of the collection of Elton John, has added a 
new meaning to the phrase, 'She stoops to 
conquer'.

(New York Review of Books, 27 April 1989: 13)

Ralph Bathurst
Lecturer
Department of Management & International Business
Massey University, Albany Campus
Private Bag 102 904, North Shore MSC
Auckland
New Zealand
Email [log in to unmask]
Phone + 64 9 4140800 Ext. 9570

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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:03:05 +1000
From: "Daria Loi" <[log in to unmask]>

Dear Ken,

these are text I used and enjoyed in the past 
(attached, the Endnote file) - they are related 
in different ways to some of the themes you 
identified:

Alexander, E. P. (1979). Museums in motion: an 
introduction to the history and functions of 
museums. Nashville: American Association for 
State and Local History.

Asma, S. T. (2001). Stuffed Animals and Pickled 
Heads - The culture and evolution of natural 
history museums. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Daston, L. J., & Park, K. (1998). Wonders and the 
order of nature, 1150-1750. New York, London: 
Zone Books; Distributed by MIT Press.

Greenblatt, S. (1991). Marvelous possessions: the 
wonder of the New World. Oxford ; New York: 
Clarendon Press.

Impey, O., & MacGregor, A. (1985). The Origins of 
museums: the cabinet of curiosities in sixteenth 
and seventeenth-century Europe. Oxford 
[Oxfordshire], New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford 
University.

Lugli, A. (1986). Inquiry as Collection: The 
Athanasius Kircher Museum in Rome. Res 12, 
Autumn, 109-124.

MacGregor, A., & Ashmolean Museum. (1983). 
Tradescant's rarities: essays on the foundation 
of the Ashmolean Museum, 1683, with a catalogue 
of the surviving early collections. Oxford 
[Oxfordshire], New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford 
University Press.

Mauriès, P. (2002). Cabinets of curiosities. London: Thames & Hudson.

Weschler, L. (1995). Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of 
Wonder. New York: Vintage Books. (this is lighter 
but wondrous reading about a contemporary Cabinet 
of Wonders in L.A.)

I hope this can help somehow.

Best Wishes,

Daria

ps I didn't forget of sending you my thoughts 
about the article you emailed me a few weeks ago 
- some of the notions you put forward and their 
implications require extra head/reflective 
space... soon...

d å r i a l o i , p h d

  RMIT University
  Senior Research Fellow @ Globalism Institute
  Lecturer and International Coordinator @ Industrial Design
Ph. +61 3 9925 5337 (ID) 9925 2539 (GIobalism Institute)
Fax: +61 3 9925 5342
email: [log in to unmask]
http://www.darialoi.com
http://dariasuitcase.blogspot.com/

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From: Stine Hoholt

Dear Ken

Thank you for your email - I will answer from my 
dkds-email, but as you may know I have changed 
job and email. I now work as head of the Arts 
Department and the School Services at ARKEN 
Museum of Modern Art - new mail is 
[log in to unmask]

It has been a while since I last read a lot on 
museology, but I can recommend: Eilean 
Hooper-Greenhill, Museums and the Shaping of 
Knowledge (Routledge, 1992) and the article by 
Andreas Huyssen, "Escape from Amnesia: The Museum 
as Mass Medium" (Routledge, 1995).

If you need a lecturer for one session, I would 
recommend my highly esteemed colleague, Vibeke 
Petersen, who is director of exhibitions at the 
Oslo Art Museums. She has taught museology at the 
Copenhagen University. If you have the 
possibility of flying in people from the US, I 
have some very good names, from a course in I 
took there in Art Museum Management.

Also you can ask both Copenhagen and Aarhus 
university (Ane Hejlskov Larsen) for their 
required reading in their museology courses.....

Best regards,

Stine

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Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:47:26 +0100
From: Michael A R Biggs <[log in to unmask]>


Dear Ken

I recommend

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0631228306/qid=1127051207/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/026-7010401-1174869


Michael

Museum Studies in Context: An Anthology
Bettina Messias Carbonell
Paperback 680 pages (September 3, 2003)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 0631228306

Synopsis

The explosive popularity of museums has made 
museum studies one of the most productive and 
exciting intellectual and pedagogical sites for 
historians and art historians, anthropologists, 
archaeologists, and critical theorists. Museum 
Studies: An Anthology of Contexts provides a 
comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of 
approaches to museums and their relation to 
history, culture, philosophy, and their adoring 
or combative publics. An indispensable text for 
teaching museum studies in today's classroom, 
Museum Studies brings together for the first time 
a wide array of texts that mix contemporary 
analysis with classic, historical documentation. 
Offering encyclopedic coverage of the issues 
critical to the rise and role of the museum - 
history and development: relation to society: the 
ethics of classification, exhibition, and 
exclusion: the representation of cultures: 
property and ownership: the poetics of display: 
material culture and historical documentation: 
tradition, innovation, and self-reflexivity in 
museum practice - this is the most comprehensive 
and ambitious volume available on museum studies. 
The Anthology opens with an introductory essay 
that provides vital background and situates 
museum studies in a truly interdisciplinary 
context. Each section includes an opening essay 
that guides the reader through the selections 
while the volume's bibliography provides a list 
of resources devoted to museum studies.

Dr Michael A R Biggs
Professor of Aesthetics and Associate Dean Research

Faculty for the Creative and Cultural Industries
University of Hertfordshire
College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB
UK

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