The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century - Tapa blanda

Thomas, Nicholas

 
9781780236568: The Return of Curiosity: What Museums are Good For in the Twenty-first Century
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ISBN 10: 1780236565 ISBN 13: 9781780236568
Editorial: Reaktion Books, 2016

Sinopsis

Over the last twenty years museums have proliferated, attracting new audiences and assuming new prominence in public life. The Return of Curiosity offers a fresh perspective on museums and what they may now be good for. Nicholas Thomas argues that what is special about museums are their collections, which are not just rich resources for reflection, but creative technologies that enable people to make new things in the present. Reflecting on art galleries, science and history institutions, and museums around the world, Thomas shows that in times marked by insecurity and increasing conflict, museums can help to sustain and enrich society. They stimulate a curiosity that is vital to understanding and negotiating the cosmopolitan but dangerous world we all now inhabit. The Return of Curiosity is a book that anyone who visits and enjoys museums will find engaging and stimulating. Curators, arts and heritage professionals, policymakers and all museum studies teachers and students need to own and read this influential book.

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Acerca del autor

Nicholas Thomas is Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, London. He has curated exhibitions in many countries and has been the Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge since 2006. His many books include Oceanic Art (1995), Possessions: Indigenous Art/Colonial Culture(1999), Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and Europe (Reaktion, 2005) and Islanders: The Pacific in the Age of Empire (2012), which won the Wolfson History Prize,

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Editorial
Reaktion Books
Año de publicación
2016
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1780236565
ISBN 13 
9781780236568
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Número de páginas
176
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