The study of the museum visitor has undergone radical transformation. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answers. Some of these questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can we gain entry into this experience? Does more technology really increase access to the objects themselves? Others probe the very nature of museum going and exhibition making, demanding that we reexamine the traditional exhibition to reposition the visitor and her meaning-making at the centre. The volume provokes imaginative research and encourages new conclusions.
About the AuthorAnn Davis is Director of The Nickle Arts Museum at the University of Calgary and a prominent art critic, curator, and teacher. She is the author of The Logic of Ecstasy: Canadian Mystical Painting 1920-1940 and numerous articles and essays on twentieth-century Canadian art.
Book InformationISBN 9783837632897
Author Ann DavisFormat Paperback
Page Count 250
Imprint Transcript VerlagPublisher Transcript Verlag
Weight(grams) 680g
Dimensions(mm) 23mm * 15mm * 310mm