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Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture

Paperback • 2000 • English

Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture

By Eilean Hooper-Greenhill

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About the book

This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums, focusing its attention on pedagogy and visual culture. This work explores such questions as: * How and why is it that museums select and arrange artefacts, shape knowledge, construct a view? * How do museums produce values? * How do active audiences make meaning from what they experience in museums? This stimulating book provokes debate and discussi...Show more

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ISBN

9780415086332

Publisher

Routledge

Published year

2000

Language

English

Original title

Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture

Format

Paperback

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