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Understanding the Art Museum
Barbara Beall-Fofana

ISBN-10: 0131950703
ISBN-13:  9780131950702

Publisher:  Pearson
Copyright:  2007
Format:  Paper; 128 pp
Published:  09/07/2006
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This handbook gives students essential museum-going guidance to help them make the most of their experience seeing art outside of the classroom.   Case studies, a list of major museums in the United States as well as key cities across the world are incorporated into the text.


Table of Contents

Preface

 

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction

 

SECTION I: You and the Museum

Chapter 1         Defining the Museum

Chapter 2         Mapping the Museum

Chapter 3         Presenting the Art

Chapter 4         How Do Museums Know What They Know?

 

SECTION II: You and the Art

Chapter 5         Taking about Art

Chapter 6         Writing about Art

Chapter 7         What Is the Meaning of the Art?

Chapter 8         Art and Its Context

 

SECTION III: You, the Art, and the Museum

Chapter 9         Ongoing Challenges

Chapter 10       Inside the Art Museum

 

 

APPENDIXES

GLOSSARY 



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