Museums and memory / edited by Susan A. Crane.
| Other author | Crane, Susan A. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2000. |
| Description | x, 257 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Cultural sitings Cultural sitings. ^A377135 |
| Contents | Introduction : Of museums and memory / Susan A. Crane -- Archi(ve)textures of museology / Wolfgang Ernst -- A museum and its memory : the art of recovering history / Michael Fehr -- Curious cabinets and imaginary museums / Susan A. Crane -- Geoffrey Sonnabend's "obliscence : theories of forgetting and the problem of matter" / an encapsulation courtesy of the Museum of Jurassic Technology -- History and anti-history : photography exhibitions and Japanese national identity / Julia Adeney Thomas -- Realizing memory, transforming history : Euro/American/Indians / Diana Drake Wilson -- Global culture, modern heritage : re-membering the Chinese imperial collections / Tamara Hamlish -- The modern muses : Renaissance collecting and the cult of remembrance / Paula Findlen -- The quarrel of the ancients and moderns in the German museums / Suzanne Marchand -- The museum's discourse on art : the formation of curatorial art history in turn-of-the-century Berlin / Alexis Joachimides. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-252) and index. |
| LCCN | 99089384 |
| ISBN | 0804735646 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0804735654 (pbk. : alk. paper) |