Museum Theatre

H42.2320

Fall 1999

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

Department of Performance Studies

New York University

Reserve Readings

  • Bazin, Germain. The museum age. Brussels: Desoer; 1968.
  • Bennett, Tony. The birth of the museum. London: Routledge; 1995.
  • Cooke, Lynne and Wollen, Peter. Visual display. Seattle: Bay Press; 1995.
  • Coombes, Annie E. Reinventing Africa: museums, material culture, and popular imagination in late Victorian and Edwardian England. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1994.
  • Crimp, Douglas. On the museum's ruins. Cambridge: MIT Press; 1993.
  • Dennett, Andrea Stulman. Weird and wonderful : the dime museum in America . New York: New York University Press; 1997.
  • Dubin, Steven C. Displays of power : memory and amnesia in the American museum . New York: New York University Press; 1999.
  • Duncan, Carol. Civilizing rituals: inside public art museums. London: Routledge; 1995.
  • Errington, Shelly. The death of primitive art and other tales of progress. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1998.
  • Findlen, Paula. Possessing nature: museums, collecting, and scientific culture in early modern Italy. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1994.
  • Fisher, Philip. Making and effacing art: modern American art in a culture of museums. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 1991.
  • Fyfe, Gordon and Law, John. Picturing power: visual depiction and social relations. New York: Routledge; 1988.
  • Gell, Alfred. Art and agency. Oxford: Oxford University Place; 1998.
  • Goings, Kenneth W. Mammy and Uncle Mose: Black collectibles and American stereotyping. Bloomington: Indiana University Press; 1994.
  • Greenaway, Peter. 100, Hundert Objekte zeigen die Welt= 100 : hundred objects to present the world / Peter Greenaway. Schweeger, ElisabethStuttgart: G. Hatje; 1992.
  • Greenburg, Reesa; Ferguson, Bruce W., and Nairne, Sandy. Thinking about exhibitions. London: Routledge; 1996.
  • Hall, Stuart. Representation: cultural representations and signifying practices. London: Sage; 1997.Hanley, Susan B. Everyday things in premodern Japan : the hidden legacy of material culture. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1997.
  • Haskell, Francis. Taste and the antique: the lure of classical sculpture, 1500-1900. New Haven: Yale University Press; 1981.
  • Henderson, Amy and Kaeppler, Adrienne L., eds. Exhibiting dilemmas: issues of representation at the Smithsonian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1997.
  • Hoskins, Janet. Biographical objects : how things tell the stories of people's lives. New York: Routledge; 1998.
  • Jones, Caroline A. and Galison, Peter. Picturing science, producing art. New York: Routledge; 1998.
  • Kaplan, F. E. S. Museums and the making of 'ourselves': the role of objects in national identity. New York: St. Martin's Press; 1994.
  • Karp, Ivan; Kreamer, Christine Mullen, and Lavine, Steven D. Museums and communities : the politics of public culture. Washington, D.C.: : Smithsonian Institution Press; 1992.
  • Karp, Ivan and Lavine, Steven D., eds. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1991.
  • Katriel, Tamar. Performing the past: a study of Israeli settlement museums. Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum; 1997.
  • Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage. Los Angeles and Berkeley: University of California Press; 1998.
  • Kritzman, Lawrence D., ed. Nora, Pierre, under the direction of. Realms of memory: rethinking the French past. Goldhammer, Arthur, trans. New York: Columbia University Press; 1997;2 vols.
  • Kurin, Richard. Reflections of a culture broker: a view from the Smithsonian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1997.
  • Macdonald, Sharon, ed. The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture. New York: Routledge; 1998.
  • Macdonald, Sharon and Fyfe, Gordon, eds. Theorizing Museums: Representing Identity and Diversity in a Changing World. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Blackwell; 1996.
  • Malraux, André. The Voices of Silence. 1974.
  • Mason, Peter. Infelicities: representations of the exotic. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1998.
  • Newhouse, Victoria. Towards a new museum. New York: Monacelli; 1998.
  • Norman, Donald A. The psychology of everyday things. New York : Basic Books; 1988.
  • O'Doherty, Brian. Inside the white cube: the ideology of the gallery space. Santa Monica: Lapis Press; 1986.
  • Schaffner, Ingrid and Winzen, Matthias. Deep storage : collecting, storing, and archiving in art. New York: Prestel; 1998.
  • Schimmel, Paul et al. Out of actions: between performance and the object, 1949-1979. Los Angeles and New York: The Museum of Contemporary Art and Thames and Hudson; 1998.
  • Sherman, Daniel J. and Rogoff, Irit. Museum culture: history, discourses, spectacles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press; 1994.
  • Simpson, Moira. Making representations: museums in the post-colonial era. London: Routledge; 1996.
  • Stafford, Barbara Maria. Artful science: enlightenment, entertainment, and the eclipse of visual education. Cambridge: MIT Press; 1994.
  • Staniszewski, Mary Anne. The power of display: a history of exhibition installations at the Museum of Modern Art. Cambridge: MIT Press; 1998.
  • Stanley, Nick. Being ourselves for you: the global display of culture. London: Middlesex University Press; 1998.
  • Stewart, Susan. On longing. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press; 1993.
  • Thomas, Nicholas. Entangled objects: exchange, material culture, and colonialism in the Pacific. Cambridge: Harvard University Press; 1991.
  • Thompson, Robert Farris. African art in motion: icon and act. Berkeley: University of California Press; 1979.
  • Valery, Paul. The problem of museums. Degas danse dessin. Paul, David, trans. New York: Pantheon/Bollingen; 1960; pp. 202-204.
  • Vergo, Peter. The new museology. London: Reaktion; 1989.
  • Wechsler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson's cabinet of wonders. New York: Pantheon; 1995.
  • West, W. Richard. All roads are good : native voices on life and culture. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press; 1994.
  • Wilson, Fred by Fred Wilson. Mining the museum : an installation. Lisa G. Corrin, ed. New York: The New Press; 1994.
  • Yates, Frances Amelia. The art of memory. New York: Routledge; 1999.