Whitehead, Christopher
Analysing Museum Display: Theory and Method
- ISBN 13:
- 9781138545915
- author:
- Whitehead, Christopher
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Routledge
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 234
- Dimensions:
- 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.4 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Archaeology,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Analyzing Museum Display Theory and Method by Christopher Whitehead provides a comprehensive guide to studying museum displays. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks and methods, exploring their potentials and limitations.
The book argues that display is a complex form of representation, both material, experiential, and political in producing knowledge. It offers a critical analysis of existing concepts and methods, including semiotic, narrative, cartographic, and spatial analyses, assemblage theory, new materialist and multisensory approaches, and theories of affect, emotion, and historical positioning.
This book is essential reading for scholars and students of museology at all levels, as well as museum curators and professionals seeking to develop a more theorised and reflective perspective on their practice. It will be a valuable resource for anyone looking to deepen their understanding of museum display theory and method.
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