Curatorial Dreams
Critics Imagine Exhibitions
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2016
398 pages
978-0-7735-9854-6 (ISBN)
Description
Scholars are challenged to create their own exhibitions.
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Shelley Ruth Butler is a cultural anthropologist who teaches at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. Erica Lehrer is Canada Research Chair in Museum and Heritage Studies at Concordia University.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Curatorial Dreaming
- Part One: Curating in the Vernacular
- 1 Making Transparency Visible: Centre William Rappard, Headquarters of the World Trade Organization, Geneva
- 2 Most Disturbing Souvenirs: Curative Museology in a Cultural Conflict Zone
- 3 The Alchemy of Flight: Race, Mobility, Humanity
- 4 By and For Children: History and Healing in a Hospital Museum, KwaZulu-Natal
- Part Two: Breaking Frames
- 5 Frozen World/Mundo Congelado: AIDS, Chicano Art, and the Queer Remains of Mundo Meza
- 6 The Play: Reassembling African Arts in the West
- 7 But Is It Art?: Not Really
- Part Three: Activating Art and History
- 8 Intervention/Resurrection: Intergenerational Activations of La Cueca Sola
- 9 The Terrible Gift: Difficult Memories for the Twenty-First Century
- 10 Reading the World: Native Histories at the Bosque Redondo Memorial, New Mexico
- Part Four: Establishments Revisioned
- 11 The World in One City: The Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam
- 12 Museum without Walls: After Into the Heart of Africa
- 13 abNormal: Bodies in Medicine and Culture
- 14 Reel Objects: Movies in Museums
- Afterword
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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