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Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums

Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums

Paperback

Series: Museums in Focus

General ReferenceGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1032202955
ISBN13: 9781032202952
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 25 2023
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums offers a reflective and reflexive re-assessment of museum studies and the first wide-ranging account of critical museology.

Drawing on an extensive range of examples from museums and across the museological literature, which are purposefully representative of very different cultural backgrounds, the book issues a plea for critical thinking in and about museums. The various institutions covered and the plural analytical standpoints offer a broad interdisciplinary approach by intermingling art history, anthropology, sociocultural theories and heritage studies. The result is not claimed as a universal or all-encompassing account but a subjective review produced by J. Pedro Lorente, an art critic and historian who has been writing extensively about 'critical museology' in different languages for many years. Lorente offers a fascinating synopsis of his ideas in this extremely valuable short book, looking inside and outside museums, combining practice and theory, whilst also relating both to the work of museum professionals and to a range of publications by academics, including those from other research fields.

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