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Museum media The international handbooks of museum studies / edited by Michelle Henning / general editors: Sharon Macdonald, Helen Rees Leahy. First edition.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-9850-9 (cloth) | ISBN 978-1-119-64202-2 (pbk)
1. Museums. 2. Museum exhibits. I. Macdonald, Sharon. II. Leahy, Helen Rees.
AM5.I565 2015
609dc23
2015003407
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
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Cover Image: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Room, 2010, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK. © DACS 2014 / VEGAP. Photo by Peter Mallet.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Color plate section
1 2.2 Melik Ohanian, Invisible Film, 2005
2 2.3 Julien Maire, Exploding Camera, 2007
3 4.1 Pavel Boyko and Arkadi Lebedev, The Battle of Kursk: A History Lesson
4 6.2 Installation view of Remote Control, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
5 6.3 LuckyPDF’s James Early and Chloe Sims at Remote Control
6 10.2 Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle, Air Pressure, 2012
7 10.3 Rupert Cox and Angus Carlyle, Air Pressure, 2012
8 11.3 Menashe Kadishman, Shalechet, Jewish Museum, Berlin
9 13.2 Stone circle in the Museum of Witchcraft
10 13.6 Living room at The Valiant Soldier
11 14.1 Exhibition design model of National Maritime Museum Cornwall
12 14.3 UK pavilion, Expo 2005, Aichi, Japan
13 16.1 Self-enactment: the scene at the entrance to A Matter of Belief exhibition
14 16.5 What does Switzerland believe? Representative objects in A Matter of Belief
15 17.1 The Mirakulosum
16 18.6 The Hall of Human Biology, ca. 1977, Natural History Museum
17 19.2 The Interactive Desk, Bunratty Folk Park
18 20.3 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Pulse Room, 2010, Manchester Art Gallery
19 21.3 John Bell, The Variable Museum
20 23.1 BMW Welt, Munich
21 23.3 “Going to the Schirn is not art,” Frankfurt
22 24.3 Mark Dion, Cabinet of Curiosities, Musée Océanographique, Monaco
23 25.1 Hans Holbein the Younger, The Ambassadors, 1533
Chapter illustrations
1 1.1 “Who Built the Internet?” National Media Museum, Bradford
2 1.2 8 mm film cameras in storage at the National Media Museum
3 2.1 Roman Ondák, Snapshots from Baghdad, 2007
4 2.2 Melik Ohanian, Invisible Film, 2005
5 2.3 Julien Maire, Exploding Camera, 2007
6 2.4 A precursor to the “Big Picture Show,” Imperial War Museum North, Manchester
7 3.1 Wildwalk, Bristol, 2007
8 4.1 Pavel Boyko and Arkadi Lebedev, The Battle of Kursk: A History Lesson
9 4.2 Still from video testimony of Ulrike Poppe in the Haus der Geschichte
10 4.3 Exhibition section on the beat generation in the Haus der Geschichte
11 6.1 Poster for CAC TV, 2004
12 6.2 Installation view of Remote Control, Institute of Contemporary
