Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm
Making the Museum in the Twentieth Century
Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm
Reihe: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
ISBN: 978-1-041-04832-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Without women’s curatorial work, the twentieth-century museum would never have developed as it did. Between the 1890s-1970s, women began accessing decision-making roles in museums worldwide. This volume provides a transnational exploration of the contributions of pioneering female curators with regards to museum practice, collection-making and display design. As scholarship begins unearthing the distinctiveness of women’s curatorial choices, we aim to map the scope and nature of their approach to collecting and curating. What did these first generations of women curators achieve, and what can a gender perspective on museum history uncover? This edited volume brings together research authored by scholars and museum professionals from across the globe who share a desire to understand the history of museums from a gendered perspective. It leads to a new understanding of women’s transnational, collective impact on the formation of collections and their role in the birth and development of modern-day curatorial practices. Divided into four sections, the collection examines the increasing professionalization of women curators during the twentieth century; women's contribution to the development of the modern-day museum; the intertwining of women’s work in museums with wider twentieth-century global history and politics; and the role of women curators in advancing and shaping the collection, display and reception of what was then contemporary art.
These texts are ideal for researchers and scholars interested in history of museums and curatorial practice, as well as art and gender.
Zielgruppe
Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced
Autoren/Hrsg.
Weitere Infos & Material
Introduction. Early Women Curators – Making the Museum in the Twentieth Century Part 1: Becoming Professionals
1 “Suffragette Militancy” for the “Aesthetic” Museum: Early Museum Women in Germany (1900-33) 2 Behind the Scenes: Women in Parisian Museums in the Early Twentieth Century 3 Women Curators in Britain, c. 1945-70: Career Trajectories in a Shifting Educational Landscape 4 Agents of Change: Australian Women Curators (1940-70) Part 2: Addressing the Public 5 Educational and Personal Vision: Eliza Metcalf and the Antiquities Collection at the Rhode Island School of Design 6, “La Dame de Mariemont” – Germaine Faider-Feytmans: A Pioneer Curator of the Mariemont Royal Museum (1940-68) 7 Exhibitions for the Free World Abroad and at Home: Annemarie Pope’s SITES during the Early Cold War 8 Ayala Gordon: Curating Child-Centered Education at the Israel Museum Part 3: Working in Turbulent Times 9 Lessons in Moral Values: Monuments Woman Edith A. Standen and the Ethics of Resistance 10 From New Woman to Socialist Woman: Zora Simic Milovanovic’s Curatorial Politics 11 Disruptor of the Socialist Social Order? 12 Embodying the Global and the Local: Grace Morley at the National Museum of India Part 4: The Making of Collections of Modern Art 13 Curating Modernity: Cornelia B. Sage, Temporary Exhibitions, and the Making of the Albright Art Gallery (1910-24) 14 Ellen Duncan and the Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin 15 Helene Kröller-Müller: Four Curatorial Scenarios and a Museum of Modern Art 16 Mercedes Garberi: Introducing Contemporary Art to Milan in the 1970s
