Museum Studies

Bettina Messias Carbonell is Associate Professor of English and Program Coordinator for the interdisciplinary Humanities and Justice major at John Jay College, City University of New York. Her publications and current research focus on ethics, aesthetics, and the representation of history in literary texts and in museums.

• Alternative Taxonomy xi Notes on Contributors xviAcknowledgments xxivIntroduction to the Second Edition: Museum/Studies and the “Eccentric Space” of an Anthology – Revisited 1Bettina M. CarbonellPart I Museology: A Collection of Contexts 15Introduction 151 From The Museum Age: Foreword 19Germain Bazin2 The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy 23Paula Findlen3 The Universal Survey Museum 46Carol Duncan and Alan Wallach4 Seeing Through Solidity: A Feminist Perspective on Museums 62Gaby Porter5 Universal Museums, Museum Objects and Repatriation: The Tangled Stories of Things 73Neil G.W. Curtis6 Narrativity and the Museological Myths of Nationality 82Donald Preziosi7 Museums, Civic Life, and the Educative Force of Remembrance 92Roger I. Simon8 The Memorial Museum Identity Complex: Victimhood, Culpability, and Responsibility 97Paul Williams9 At The Holocaust Museum 116Alice FrimanPart II States of “Nature” in the Museum: Natural History, Anthropology, Ethnology 117Introduction 11710 To the Citizens of the United States of America 123Charles Willson Peale11 Letter of 1863 to Mr. Thomas G. Cary 125Louis Agassiz12 Museums of Ethnology and Their Classification 126Franz Boas13 “Magnificent Intentions”: Washington, D.C., and American Anthropology in 1846 129Curtis M. Hinsley, Jr.14 From Natural History to Science: Display and the Transformation of American Museums of Science and Nature 142Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain15 The Development of Ethnological Museums 158Robert Goldwater16 Ethnology: A Science on Display 163Fabrice Grognet17 Ambiguous Messages and Ironic Twists: Into the Heart of Africa and The Other Museum 168Enid Schildkrout18 Thinking and Doing Otherwise: Anthropological Theory in Exhibitionary Practice 177Mary Bouquet19 The Mirror and the Tomb: Africa, Museums, and Memory 189Françoise Lionnet20 From Ethnology to Heritage: The Role of the Museum 199Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett21 The Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford 206James FentonPart III The Status of Nations and the Museum 209Introduction 20922 From On the Museum of Art: An Address 213J. C. Robinson23 Presidential Address to the Museums Association, Maidstone Meeting, 1909 218Henry Balfour24 Addresses on the Occasion of the Opening of the American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (November 10, 1924) 225Robert W. de Forest, Grosvenor Atterbury, and Elihu Root25 The Architectural Museum from World’s Fair to Restoration Village 230Edward N. Kaufman26 Melodrama, Pantomime or Portrayal?: Representing Ourselves and the British Past through Exhibitions in History Museums 244Gaynor Kavanagh27 Artifacts as Expressions of Society and Culture: Subversive Genealogy and the Value of History 250Mark P. Leone and Barbara J. Little28 Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities 260Annie E. Coombes29 Museums, National, Postnational and Transcultural Identities 273Sharon J. Macdonald30 Architecture and the Scene of Evidence 287Catherine Ingraham31 Some Thoughts about National Museums at the End of the Century 294Roger G. KennedyPart IV Histories and Identities in the Museum 299Introduction 29932 Memory, Distortion, and History in the Museum 303Susan A. Crane33 Museum Matters 317Gyan Prakash34 Reality as Illusion, the Historic Houses that Become Museums 324Mónica Risnicoff de Gorgas35 Mining the Museum: Artists Look at Museums, Museums Look at Themselves 329Lisa G. Corrin36 The Afterlife of Lynching: Exhibitions and the Re-composition of Human Suffering 347Bettina Messias Carbonell37 Exhibiting Mestizaje: The Poetics and Experience of the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum 357Karen Mary Davalos38 Indigenous Models of Museums in Oceania 373Sidney Moko Mead39 Museums and the Native Voice 377Gerald McMaster40 Dangerous Heritage: Southern New Ireland, the Museum and the Display of the Past 383Sean Kingston41 Emerging Discourses around Identity in New South African Museum Exhibitions 397Crain SoudienPart V Art, Artifacts, and the Deployment of Objects in the Museum 407Introduction 40742 Aims and Principles of the Construction and Management of Museums of Fine Art 413Benjamin Ives Gilman43 The Museum as an Art Patron 421John Cotton Dana44 Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-century Boston, Part II: The Classification and Framing of American Art 425Paul DiMaggio45 Picturing Feminism, Selling Liberalism: The Case of the Disappearing Holbein 442Jordanna Bailkin46 Conclusion to The Love of Art 453Pierre Bourdieu and Alain Darbel, with Dominique Schnapper47 Art and the Future’s Past 457Philip Fisher48 Museums Without Collections: Museum Philosophy in West Africa 473Malcolm McLeod49 Women at the Whitney, 1910–30: Feminism/Sociology/Aesthetics 478Janet Wolff50 From The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect: Introduction 491Kynaston McShine51 Zero Gravity 503Maurice Berger52 Museums and Globalization 510Saloni Mathur53 Changing Values in the Art Museum: Rethinking Communication and Learning 517Eilean Hooper-Greenhill54 Technology Becomes the Object: The Use of Electronic Media at the National Museum of the American Indian 533Gwyneira IsaacPart VI In and Beyond the Museum: Relationships, Interactions, Responsibilities 547Introduction 54755 Museums, Corporatism and the Civil Society 549Robert R. Janes56 Museums as Agents of Social Inclusion 562Richard Sandell57 Partnership in Museums: A Tribal Maori Response to Repatriation 575Paul Tapsell58 Interactivity in Museums: The Politics of Narrative Style 580Andrea Witcomb59 Speaking about Museums: A Meditation on Language 590Stephen E. Weil Selected Bibliography 599Source Acknowledgments 615Index 620