The Birth of the Museum - History, Theory, Politics (Hardcover)

Tony Bennett's invigorating study enriches and challenges our understanding of the modern museum placing it at the centre of modern relations of culture and government.
Bennett argues that the public museum should be understood not just as a place of instruction but as a reformatory of manners in which a wide range of regulated social routines and performances take place. Discussing the historical development of museums alongside that of the fair and the international exhibition, he sheds new light upon the relationship between modern forms of official and popular culture.
In a series of richly detailed case studies from Britain, Australia and North America, Bennett investigates how nineteenth- and twentieth-century museums, fairs and exhibitions have organised their collections, and their visitors. His use of Foucaltian perspectives and his consideration of museums in relation to other cultural institutions of display provides a distinctive perspective on contemporary museum policies and politics.

General

Imprint:	Routledge
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Culture: Policy and Politics
Release date:	May 1995
First published:	May 1995
Authors:	Tony Bennett
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-0-415-05387-7
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General
LSN:	0-415-05387-0
Barcode:	9780415053877

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