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(15) 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) Charlotte Charlotte L.Frost MA PhD Candidate Birkbeck College Recently Guest on Empyre: Topic = Mailing List Mania: http://www.subtle.net/empyre/ Latest Review: New Media Art: Practice and Context in the UK 1994-2004 http://rhizome.org/thread.rhiz?thread=15629&text=29938 We are having reconstructive surgery Look out for the new and improved: http://www.furthertxt.org Coming soon!!! Latest Interview: http://www.charlottefrost.info/docs/t_c_interview.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ http://www.furtherfield.org http://www.rhizome.org +44 (0) 7771 802422 http://www.charlottefrost.info +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -- (16) Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 11:55:41 -0700 Thread-Topic: [anthrodesign] Digest Number 695 From: "Tracey Lovejoy" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]>, <[log in to unmask]> 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 -- (17) 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 -- (18) 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 -- (19) 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 [log in to unmask] -- (20) 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 -- (21) 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 <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] +47 73595023 (office) +47 90937874 (mobile) -- (22) 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. e-mail [log in to unmask] telephone +45 35 27 75 54 -- (23) 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 [log in to unmask] -- (24) 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. -- RCMG publications -- 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) -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- (25) 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 --