From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum

Introduction, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Piotr Piotrowski; Part I Histories; Chapter 1 A Very Brief History of the Art Museum in the United States (Focusing Mainly But Not Exclusively on the Nineteenth Century), Alan Wallach; Chapter 2 'The Contemporary Museum is a Laboratory of Knowledge', Andrzej Turowski; Chapter 3 Wilhelm R. Valentiner's Reshaping Museums in the Spirit of the New Age (1919) and its Reception, Monika Flacke; Chapter 4 Myth and Reality of the White Cube, Charlotte Klonk; Chapter 5 Jerzy Ludwi?ski's Testing of the Dysfunction of the Museum, Magdalena Zio?kowska; Part II Tools: Objects, Space, Viewing Practices; Chapter 6 Masterpieces and the Critical Museum, Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius; Chapter 7 From the White Cube to a Critical Museography, J. Pedro Lorente; Chapter 8 From the Inside Looking Out, Penelope Curtis; Chapter 9 Making the National Museum Critical, Piotr Piotrowski; Chapter 10 Historical Space and Critical Museologies, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett; Chapter 11 Museums that Listen and Care? Central Europe and Critical Museum Discourse, Maria Oriskova; Chapter 12 Towards Embodied, Agonistic Museum Viewing Practices in Contemporary Manchester, England, Alpesh Kantilal Patel; Part III Critique; Chapter 13 The Context and Practice of Post-critical Museology, Victoria Victoria Walsh; Chapter 14 'Is the Contemporary Already Too Late?' (Re-)producing Criticality within the Art Museum, Jacob Birken; Chapter 15 Neuromuseology, John Onians;