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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"museum display"”.
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Recontextualisation in museum displays: refracting discourses over time
… investigates the representation of people in museums, focusing on the San, South Africa’s first nation. Using a multimodal social semiotic framework, it analyses three exhibitions of the San that were mounted over a period of a hundred years in a natural history museum from 1911 to the …
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Defining Museum Intervention: An Analysis of James Putnam's Time Machine
In his 2001 publication Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium, independent curator James Putnam coins the term ‘museum intervention’ to describe a type of artwork created by some artists as a means to critique organizing principles of the museum. Putnam’s book analyzes examples of museum …
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Positioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontier
… an article entitled Eve's footprints safe in museum (Cape Times 24.6.98). The footprints had just been removed from the shore of the Langebaan lagoon. The footprints, imprinted in stone, have been dated to 117 000 years. The media use of the name Eve is an example of how theoretical …
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The Persistent Shock of the Old: Making the case for the responsive development of artwork deploying historical museological display techniques.
… practices—particularly Victorian and Edwardian display technologies—in contemporary art-making and sculptural practice. I ask three central questions: how can the collection and display of natural history materials be ethically defended in the present day; how might traditional exhibition …
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Discreet Works
… exist within an artistic discourse which values display, exhibition and public visibility. What has so far been lacking in debates on the discreet in art is the context of the artists’ own narrative and an analysis of the setting in which the discreet work takes place. To provide this narrative …
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Violet is one letter off from violent
… conservation by positioning the international museum—whose history I show is inherently violent—aiming to present how it is another vehicle, and historically White institution, through which aggression and violence shape and control female and BIPOC bodies, particularly women who have been …
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Fragments and Assemblages: The Display of Ancient Sculpture in the Vatican’s Museo Chiaramonti
… Belvedere Courtyard. The result was a new museum display of ancient sculpture, the first that included fragments on a wide scale, while at the same time restorations continued to play an important role. It is this duality between fragments and assemblages that is the central theme of this …
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‘Answering the calls of the living’: collaborative practice in archaeology and ancient Egyptian daily life exhibitions in Western museums
Western museum displays of Egyptology are in need of an overhaul. The study of the ancient Egyptian past and the methods by which museums represent this past are affected by over two hundred years of Western tradition. This tradition, founded in a time of nation-building, led to the establishment …
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Navajo Baskets and the American Indian Voice: Searching for the Contemporary Native American in the Trading Post, the Natural History Museum, and the Fine Art Museum
This thesis examines the display of Navajo baskets and examines some of the possible meanings Navajo baskets can reveal. Acknowledging that the meaning of a work of art changes when it is placed in different environments, the thesis explores what meanings are revealed and what meanings are …