Museum Theatre 1999
H42.2320
Fall 1999
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
Department of Performance Studies
New York University
Readings Online
Critical Theory Texts
http://pixels.filmtv.ucla.edu/community/julian_scaff/benjamin/benjamin.html
Benjamin, Walter. "The work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction."
http://art.derby.ac.uk/~g.peaker/arcades/passagenwerk.html
Benjamin, Walter. "Reading in the ruins I: fragments of the Passagen-Werk."
http://cac.psu.edu/~mtd120/palmer/thesis/benjamin.html
DiNicola, M. Travis. "The Work of Walter Benjamin in the Age of Digital Reproduction [Palmer Museum of Art ONLINE].
http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~cmnF93/culture_reconsidered.txt
Adorno, Theodor. "Culture industry reconsidered."
http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~cmnF93/culture_ind.txt
Adorno, Theodor, and Max Horkheimer. "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment As Mass Deception." Dialectic of Enlightenment.New York: Continuum, 1993.
http://hamp.hampshire.edu/~cmnF93/culture_ind.txt
Adorno, Theodor W., and Max Horkheimer. "Le Prix Du Progres." Dialectic of Enlightenment.New York: Continuum, 1993.
http://www.nothingness.org/SI/debord/SOTS/sotscontents.html.
debord, Guy. The Society of the Spectacle.
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Artists
http://www.favela.org/frenzy/fredwilson/wilson2.html
Wilson, Fred. Idea. Idea. Idea. Knowledge. Knowledge. Knowledge. Boomboom. Boomboom. Boomboom. (You can't go home.)" Mining the Museum as a website.
http://www.salonmagazine.com/june97/greenaway970606.html
Hawthorne, Christopher. "The Salon interview: Peter Greenaway."
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_&_event/v001/1.4enssle.html
Enssle, Manfred, and Bradley J. Macdonald. "The Wrapped Reichstag, 1995: Art, Dialogic Communities and Everyday Life." Theory and Event 1, no. 4 (1997).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/postmodern_culture/v003/3.2watten.html
Watten, Barrett. "Post-Soviet Subjectivity in Arkadii Dragomoshchenko and Ilya Kabakov." Postmodern Culture 3, no. 2 (1993).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/v050/50.4pr_glass.html
Cheng, Meiling. "Performance Review: Monsters of Grace 1.0: A Digital Opera in Three Dimensions." Theatre Journal 50, no. 4 (1998): 513-14.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/performing_arts_journal/v021/21.1pr_gomez-pena.htm
Kawash, Samira. "Performance Review: Interactivity and Vulnerability [El Mexterminator]." PAJ 21, no. 1 (1999): 46-52.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v004/4.1henderson.html
Henderson, Linda Dalrymple. "Etherial Bride and Mechanical Bachelors: Science and Allegory in Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass"." Configurations 4, no. 1 (1996): 91-120.
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Museum/Theory
http://www.umu.se/nordic.museology/NM/941/Grasskamp.html
Grasskamp, Walter. "Reviewing the Museum--or: the Complexity of Things." Nordisk Museologi 1 (1994): 65-74.
Richards, Thomas. "Archive and Utopia." Representations 37 (1992): 104-35.
Daston, Lorraine, and Peter Galison. "The Image of Objectivity." Representations 40 (1992).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v002/2.1lynch.html Lynch, Michael. "Representation Is Overrat ed: Some Critical Remarks About the Use of the Concept of Representation in Science Studies." Configurations 2, no. 1 (1994): 137-49.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v001/1.1patton.html Patton, Paul. "The World Seen From W ithin: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Events." Theory & Event 1, no. 1 (1997).
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Museums/Anthropology
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v003/3.3horwitz.html
Horwitz, Howard. "Selling Relics, Preserving Antiquities: The Professor's House and the
Narrative of American Anthropology." Configurations 3, no. 3 (1995): 353-89.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/v018/18.2strain.html
Strain, Ellen. "Exotic Bodies, Distant Landscapes: Touristic Viewing and Popularized Anthropology in the Nineteenth Century." Wide Angle 18, no. 2 (1996): 70-100.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/v018/18.3griffiths.html
Griffiths, Alison. " 'Journey for Those Who Can Not Travel': Promenade Cinema and the Museum Life Group." Wide Angle 18, no. 3 (1996): 53-84.
Jones, Anna Laura. "Exploding Canons: The Anthropology of Museums." Annual Review of Anthropology 22 (1993): 201-20.
http://www.qal.berkeley.edu/~kroeber/kromus.htm
Jacknis, Ira. "Alfred Kroeber As Museum Anthropologist," eds. Ira Jacknis, and Margot Blum Schevill, Museum Anthropology 17, no. 2 (1993): 27-32.
Powdermaker, Hortense. Hollywood: The Dream Factory and other essays.
Worth, Sol.Studying Visual Communication and other essays.
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Museum/Contemporary
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19990422010R
Huxtable, Ada Louise. "Museums: Making It New [Review of Towards a New Museum]." New York Review of Books (1999).
http://www.nybooks.com/nyrev/WWWarchdisplay.cgi?19990610038F
Wills, Garry. "Athens on Fifth Avenue.", 38-40. 1999.
http://www.si.edu/cms/proceed.htm
Center for Museum Studies, Smithsonian Institution. Museums for the New Millennium: Proceedings1996: Smithsonian Institution.
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Museum/History
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.3bennett.html
Bennett, Tony. "Pedagogic Objects, Clean Eyes, and Popular Instruction: On Sensory Regimes and Museum Didactics." Configurations 6, no. 3: 345-71.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v001/1.1stafford.html Stafford, Barbara Maria. "Voyeur or Observer? Enlightenment Thoughts on the Dilemmas of Display." Configurations 1, no. 1 (1993): 95-128.
Prakash, Gyan. "Science "Gone Native" in Colonial India." Representations 40 (1992): 153-78.
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http://www.jstor.org/fcgi-bin/jstor/post-query.fcg/cc99331 4.9292096900/11-20?configextension=jstor&configsortorder=SCORE&frame=frameBetts, John Rickards. "P. T. Barnum and the Popularization of Natural History." Journal of the History of Ideas 20, no. 3 (1959): 353-68.
Delia, Diana. "From Romance to Rhetoric: The Alexandrian Library in Classical and Islamic Traditions." The American Historical Review 97, no. 5 (1992): 1449-67.
Harris, Neil. "The Gilded Age Revisited: Boston and the Museum Movement." American Quarterly 14, no. 4 (1962): 545-66.
Dunlop, M. H. "Curiosities Too Numerous to Mention: Early Regionalism and Cincinnati's Western Museum." American Quarterly 36, no. 4 (1984): 524-48.
McCarthy, Kathleen D. "Creating the American Athens: Cities, Cultural Institutions, and the Arts, 1840-1930." American Quarterly 37, no. 3 (1985): 426-39.
Wolf, Bryan J. "How the West Was Hung, Or, When I Hear the Word "Culture" I Take Out My Checkbook (in Exhibition Review): The West As America: Reinterpreting Images of the Frontier, 1820-1920 and Bierstadt: Art & Enterpr ise ." American Quarterly 44, no. 3 (1992): 418-38.
Boesky, Amy. ""Outlandish-Fruits": Commissioning Nature for the Museum of Man." EHL 58, no. 2 (1991): 305-30.
Cureau, Harold G. "William H. Sheppard: Missionary to the Congo, and Collector of African Art." Journal of Negro History 67, no. 44 (1982): 340-352.
Todd, Frederick P. "The Military Museum in Europe." Military Affairs 12, no. 1 (1948): 36-45.
Findlen, Paula. "Jokes of Nature and Jokes of Knowledge: The Playfulness of Scientific Discourse in Early Modern Europe." Renaissance Quarterly 43, no. 2 (1990): 292-331.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v002/2.2tribby.html
Tribby, Jay. "Club Medici: Natural Experiment and the Imagineering of 'Tuscany'." Configurations 2, no. 2 (1994): 215-35.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/yale_journal_of_criticism/v011/11.1steele.html
Steele, Valerie. "Le Corset: A Material Culture Analysis of a Deluxe French Book." The Yale Journal of Criticism 11, no. 1 (1998): 29-38.
Hoff, Arne. "The Danish Royal Museum of Arms and Armor." The Journal of the American Military History Institute 3, no. 2 (1939): 132-36.
Wilson, Luke. "William Harvey's Prelectiones: The Performance of the Body in the Renaissance Theater of Anatomy." Representations (Special Issue: The Cultural Display of the Body) 17, no. winter (1987): 62-95.
Mullaney, Steven. "Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: The Rehearsal of Cultures in the Late Renaissance." Representations 3, no. summer (1983): 40-67.
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Museums/Memory
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/elh/v062/62.4cohen.html
Cohen, Emily Jane. "Museums of the Mind: The Gothic and the Art of Memory." ELH 62, no. 4 (1995): 883-905.
http://www.mediamatic.nl/Magazine/8*1/Ernst-Arsenals.html
Ernst, Wolfgang. "Arsenals of Memory: The Archi(Ve)Texture of the Museum." Mediamatic Magazine 8, no. 1 ([1998]).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/new_literary_history/v028/28.2smith.html
Smith, D. Vance. "Irregular Histories: Forgetting Ourselves." New Literary History 28, no. 2 (1997): 161-84.
http://www.mediamatic.nl/Magazine/8_1/Grieve-Moo.html
Grieve, Josophia. "Welcome to Memorymoo." Mediamatic Magazine 8, no. 1 ([1998]).
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/tourist/katriel2
Katriel, Tamar. "Sites of Memory: Discourses of the Past in Israeli Pioneering Settlement Museum." Quarterly Journal of Speech 80, no. 1 (1994): 1-20.
Nora, Pierre. "Between memory and history: les lieux de memoires," Representations 26: 7-24.
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Holocaust
http://www.keom.de/museumstheorie/nintendo_holocaust.html
Rugoff, Ralph. "The Nintendo Holocaust and the strength of the pathetic." Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany.
http://www.metropolismag.com/new/content/arch/ja99mys.htm
Nobel, Philip. "The Mystic of Lindenstrasse [Libeskind's Berlin Jewish Museum]." Metropolis, no. January (1999).
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Museums and Visuality: Painting, Photography, Film, Performance, and Digital Media
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v002/2.1saler.html
Saler, Michael. "The "Medieval Modern" Underground: Terminus of the Avant-Garde ." Modernism/Modernity 2, no. 1 (1995): 113-44.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v004/4.1gunning.html
Gunning, Tom. " In Your Face: Physiognomy, Photography, and the Gnostic Mission of Early Film." Modernism/Modernity 4, no. 1 (1997): 1-29.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/modernism-modernity/v004/4.2tickner.html
Tickner, Lisa. "The Popular Culture of Kermesse: Lewis, Painting, and Performance,
1912-13." Modernism/Modernity 4, no. 2 (1997): 67-120.
Michasiw, Kim Ian. "Nine Revisionist Theses on the Picturesque." Representations 38 (1992): 76-100.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/performing_arts_journal/v018/18.1young.html
Young, Lisa Jaye. "Electronic Verses: Reading the Body Vs. Touching the Text." Performing Arts Journal 52, no. 18 (1996): 1.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theory_and_event/v001/1.3johnson.html
Johnson, Carol. "Visiting the Margins: Revenge, Transgression or Incorporation -- An Australian Engagement With Theories of Identity." Theory & Event 1, no. 3 (1997).
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/v018/18.2miller.html
Miller, Angela. "The Panorama, the Cinema, and the Emergence of the Spectacular ." Wide Angle 18, no. 2 (1996): 34-69.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wide_angle/v019/19.4gunning.html
Gunning, Tom. "From the Kaleidoscope to the X-Ray: Urban Spectatorship, Poe, Benjamin, and Traffic in Souls (1913) ." Wide Angle 19, no. 4 (1997): 25-61.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/yale_journal_of_criticism/v011/11.1smith.html
Smith, Shawn Michelle. ""Baby's Picture Is Always Treasured": Eugenics and the Reproduction of
Whiteness in the Family Photograph Album ." The Yale Journal of Criticism 11, no. 1 (1998): 197-220.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v001/1.1hayles.html
Hayles, N. Katherine. The materiality of informatics . Configurations . 1993; 1(1):147-170.
http://www.keom.de/museumstheorie/goldfarb.html
Brian Goldfarb. "Collecting the Present: From Dematerialized Art Objects to Digital Culture," Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany.
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Museums/Performance
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_topics/v006/6.1shields_alt.html Shields, Ronald E., and Al len N. Kepke. "Prolegomenon to Gallery Theatre: Staging/Performing Fusing, Shifting, and Contrasting Horizons." Theatre Topics 6, no. 1 (1996): 71-90.
http://www.nyu.edu/classes/tourist/katriel1 Katriel, Tamar. "Performing the Past: Presentational Styles in Settlement Museum Interpretation." Israel Social Science Research 1, no. 2 (1994): 1-26.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/theatre_journal/v048/48.3jackson.html Jackson, Shannon. "Civic Play-Housekeeping: Gender, Theatre, and American Reform." Theatre Journal 48, no. 3 (1996): 337-61.
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Science and Visualization
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v001/1.1lindqvist.html
Lindqvist, Svante. "The Spectacle of Science: An Experiment in 1744 Concerning the Aurora Borealis." Configurations 1, no. 1 (1993): 57-94.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v002/2.1ochs.html
Ochs, Elinor, Sally Jacoby, and Patrick Gonzales. "Interpretive Journeys: How Physicists Talk and Travel Through Graphic Space." Configurations 2, no. 1 (1994): 151-71.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v003/3.1hochroth.html
Hochroth, Lysa. "The Scientific Imperative: Improductive Expenditure and Energeticism." Configurations 3, no. 1 (1995): 47-77.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v003/3.2koerner.html
Koerner, Lisbet. "Women and Utility in Enlightenment Science." Configurations 3, no. 2 (1995): 233-55 .
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v004/4.1panchasi.html
Panchasi, Roxanne. "Graphology and the Science of Individual Identity in Modern France." Configurations 4, no. 1 (1996): 1-31.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2daston.html
Daston, Lorraine. "The Nature of Nature in Early Modern Europe." Configurations 6, no. 2 (1998): 149-72.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2findlen.html
Findlen, Paula. "Between Carnival and Lent: The Scientific Revolution at the Margins of
Culture." Configurations 6, no. 2 (1998): 243-67.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/configurations/v006/6.2terrall.html
Terrall, Mary. "Heroic Narratives of Quest and Discovery." Configurations 6, no. 2 (1998): 223-42.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_life/v022/22.1hawley.html
Hawley, Judith. "Margins and Monstrosity: Martinus Scriblerus His "Double Mistress"." Eighteenth-Century Life 22, no. 1 (1998): 31-49.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/eighteenth-century_studies/v030/30.3von_sneidern.html
Sneidern, Maja-Lisa von. "Joined at the Hip: A Monster, Colonialism, and the Scriblerian Project." Eighteenth-Century Studies 30, no. 3 (1997): 213-31.
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Theme Parks
http://members.aol.com/nathanen/intro.htm
Naverson, Nate. "Imagination Enterprises: Theme Park Imagineering."