00000cam a22000003i 4500 UP-1685594773862447890 Buklod 20231013141313.0 m | | ta 200817t2019 xx af r |||1 u|eng d 9780815364931 (paperback) (iLib)UPBAG-00044940948 MK-0063 Php3,475.00 Ohio eng rda AM 7 C662 2019 The contemporary museum shaping museums for the global now edited by Simon Knell. London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019 xii, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Museums for the global contemporary -- PART I: A world of equals -- PART II: Present pasts -- PART III: Who we are. The Contemporary Museum issues a challenge to those who view the museum as an artefact of history, constrained in its outlook as much by professional, institutional and disciplinary creed, as by the collections it accumulated in the distant past. Denying that the museum can locate its purpose in the pursuit of tradition or in idealistic speculation about the future, the book asserts that this can only be found through an ongoing and proactive negotiation with the present: the contemporary. This volume is not concerned with any present, but with the peculiar circumstances of what it refers to as the 'global contemporary' - the sense of living in a globally connected world that is preoccupied with the contemporary. To situate the museum in this world of real and immediate need and action, beyond the reach of history, the book argues, is to empower it to challenge existing dogmas and inequalities and sweep aside old hierarchies. As a result, fundamental questions need to be asked about such things as the museum's relationship to global time and space, to systems and technologies of knowing, to 'the life well lived', to the movement and rights of people, and to the psychology, permanence and organisation of culture. Incorporating diverse viewpoints from around the world, The Contemporary Museum is a follow-up volume to Museum Revolutions."--Publisher's description Museums. Museums Social aspects. Museum exhibits Social aspects. Museums and community. Museums Philosophy. Knell, Simon J. editor. FO UPBAG MK AM 7 C662 2019 Book