Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780773546837)

What if museum critics were challenged to envision their own exhibitions? In Curatorial Dreams, fourteen authors from disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities propose exhibitions inspired by their research and critical concerns to creatively put theory into practice. Pushing the boundaries of museology, this collection gives rare insight into the process of conceptualizing exhibitions. The contributors offer concrete, innovative projects, each designed for a specific setting in which to translate critical academic theory about society, culture, and history into accessible imagined exhibitions. Spanning Australia, Barbados, Canada, Chile, the Netherlands, Poland, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States, the exhibitions are staged in museums, scientific institutions, art galleries, and everyday sites. Essays explore political and practical constraints, imaginative freedom, and experiment with critical, participatory, and socially relevant exhibition design. While the deconstructive critique of museums remains relevant, Curatorial Dreams charts new ground, proposing unique modes of engagement that enrich public scholarship and dialogue.

Author: Erica Lehrer, Shelley Ruth Butler
ISBN-10: 0773546839
ISBN-13: 9780773546837
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2016
Pages: 400
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2017