| Description |
x, 385 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits ; 23 cm |
| ISBN |
9781107545670 paperback |
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1107545676 paperback |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-385) |
| Contents |
Introduction / Victoria S. Harrison, Anna Bergqvist, Gary Kemp -- Museums and their paradoxes / Mark O'Neill -- The open museum and its enemies: an essay in the philosophy of Museums /Charles Taliaferro -- The museum of big ideas / Ivan Gaskell -- Museums and the nostalgic self / Michael P. Levine -- ' A sudden surprise of the soul&#x;: wonder in museums and early modern philosophy / Beth Lord -- Context and experiencing the sacred / David Brown -- Are Holocaust museums unique? /Paul Morrow -- Museums, ethics and truth: why museums' collecting policies must face up to the problem of testimony / Philip Tonner -- The ethics of trusteeship and the biography of objects /Andreas Pantazatos -- People and things: questions museums make us ask and answer / Alda Rodrigues -- What do we see in museums? / Graham Oddie -- An honest display of fakery: replicas and the role of museums / Constantine Sandis -- Word and object: museums and the matter of meaning / Garry L. Hagberg -- Framing effects in museum narratives: objectivity in interpretation revisited /Anna Bergqvist -- The participatory art museum: approached from a philosophical perspective / Sarah Hegenbart. |
| Summary |
Contributions from the conference Philosophy and Museums sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and held at the University of Glasgow in 2013. |
| Series |
Royal Institute of Philosophy supplement ; 79.
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| Library Class |
Fine Arts N410
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| Subject |
Museums -- Congresses.
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Museums -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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| Other Author |
Harrison, Victoria S., editor.
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Bergqvist, Anna, author, editor.
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Kemp, Gary, 1960 October 15- editor.
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Royal Institute of Philosophy, sponsor.
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University of Glasgow, host institution.
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Philsophy and Museums (Conference) (2013 : Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom)
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