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America's museums.

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Language:
English
Imprint:
Cambridge, Ma. : American Academy of Arts and Sciences, c1999.
Format:
  • Book
  • xiv, 337 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Title Variation:
Daedalus, journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Note:
Cover title. Special issue of Daedalus, v. 128, no. 3 (1999).
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
  • Preface / Bonnie Pitman
  • Muses, museums, and memories / Neil Harris
  • The divided house of the American Art Museum / Chon A. Noriega
  • On museum row : aesthetics and the politics of exhibition / Kathleen McLean
  • Museum exhibitions and the dynamics of dialogue / Harold Skramstad
  • An agenda for American museums in the twenty-first century / Maxwell L. Anderson
  • Museums of the future : the Impact of technology on museum practices / Elaine Heumann Gurian
  • What is the object of this exercise? A meandering exploration of the many meanings of objects in museums / Willard L. Boyd
  • Museums as centers of controversy / Stephen E. Weil
  • From being about something to being for somebody : the ongoing transformation of the American museum / John H. Falk
  • Museums as institutions for personal learning / Emlyn H. Koster
  • In search of relevance : science centers as innovators in the evolution of museums / Susanna Sirefman
  • Formed and forming : Contemporary museum architecture / Victoria Newhouse
  • Is "the idea of a museum" possible today? / Charles Correa
  • Museums : an alternate typology / Bernard Tschumi, Bernard Tschumi architects
  • On the museums of the twenty-first century : an homage to Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.
Contributor:
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Related Work:
Daedalus (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects:
ISBN:
0877240167
9780877240167

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