Images of the Art Museum

Connecting Gaze and Discourse in the History of Museology

Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Melania Savino, Eva-Maria Troelenberg, Melania Savino

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783110341362
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Architecture General

In recent years, the emerging field of museum studies has seen rapid expansion in the critical study of museums and scholars started to question the institution and its functions. To contribute differentiated viewpoints to the currently evolving meta-discourse on the museum, this volume aims to investigate how the institution of the museum has been visualized and translated into different kinds of images and how these images have affected our perception of these institutions.
In this interdisciplinary collection, scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds, including art history, heritage, museums studies and architectural history, explore a broad range of case studies stretching across the globe. The volume opens up debate about the epistemological and historiographical significance of a variety of different images and representations of the Art Museum, including the transformation or adaptation of the image of the art museum across periods and cultures. In this context, this volume aims to develop a new theoretical framework while proposing new methodological tools and resources for the analysis of museological representations on a global scale.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Images of the Art Museum. Connecting Gaze and Discourse in the History of Museology: An Introduction
• Museum Icons, Iconic Museums: (De-)Constructing the Body of Art
• Word and Image, Institution and Audience
• Politics of the “Museal Complex”
• Intermedialities, Shifting Images
• Authors
• Picture Credits
• Plates