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Museum Bodies - The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing (Paperback)
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Museum Bodies - The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing (Paperback)
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Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged,
prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from
their emergence in the eighteenth century to the present day. As
long as museums have existed, their visitors have been scrutinised,
both formally and informally, and their behaviour calibrated as a
register of cognitive receptivity and cultural competence. Yet
there has been little sustained theoretical or practical attention
given to the visitors' embodied encounter with the museum. In
Museum Bodies Helen Rees Leahy discusses the politics and practice
of visitor studies, and the differentiation and exclusion of
certain bodies on the basis of, for example, age, gender,
educational attainment, ethnicity and disability. At a time when
museums are more than ever concerned with size, demographic mix and
the diversity of their audiences, as well as with the ways in which
visitors engage with and respond to institutional space and
content, this wide-ranging study of visitors' embodied experience
of the museum is long overdue.
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