Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Suggestions for Further Reading
General Introduction: What are Museums For?
I: Creating Historical Effects
	Introduction
	1 The Fictions of Factual Representation
	2 Psychoanalysis and its History
	3 Rome, the Archetypal Museum, and the Louvre, the Negation of Division
	4 Poetics of the Museum: Lenoir and Du Sommerard
	5 Telling Objects: A Narrative Perspective on Collecting
II: Instituting Evidence
	Introduction
	1 Collective Memory and Memoria Rerum: An Architecture for Thinking
	2 Science-Honour-Metaphor: Italian Cabinets of the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries
	3 Natural History and the Emblematic World View
	4 The Museum: Its Classical Etymology and Renaissance Genealogy
	5 Inventing Assyria: Exoticism and Reception in Nineteenth-Century England and France
III: Building Shared Imaginariea/Effacing Otherness
	Introduction
	1 Double Visions
	2 Teddy Bear Patriarchy: Taxidermy in the Garden of Eden, New York City, 1908-1936
	3 From the Princely Gallery to the Public Art Museum: The Louvre Museum and the National Gallery, London
	4 Museums and the Formation of National and Cultural Identities
	5 Creating Identity: Exhibiting the Philippines at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition
	6 Performing Identity: The Museal Framing of Nazi Ideology
	7 The Cosmic Theme Park of the Javanese
IV: Observing Subjects/Disciplining Practice
	Introduction
	1 Introduction to Museum without Walls
	2 Texts/Contexts: Of Other Spaces
	3 Power/Knowledge - Constructed Space and the Subject
	4 Museums: Managers of Consciousness
	5 The Exhibitionary Complex
	6 Orientalism and the Exhibitionary Order
	7 China in Britain: The Imperial Collections
V: Secularizing Rituals
	Introduction
	1 The Museum of Modern Art as Late Capitalist Ritual: An Iconographic Analysis
	2 Animals as Cultural Signs: Collecting Animals in Sixteenth-Century Medici Florence
	3 Remarks on the Collection of Rudolf II: The Kunstkammer as a Form of Representatio
	4 Philipp Hainhofer and Gustavus Adolphus\'s Kunstschrank
	5 Museums in Eighteenth-Century Rome
	6 The Genesis and Early Development of the Royal Museum in Stockholm: A Claim for Authenticity and Legitimacy
	7 The Cultural Logic of the Late Capitalist Museum
	8 Collision
VI: Inclusions and Exclusions: Representing Adequately
	Introduction
	1 Cultural Reflections
	2 Histories of the Tribal and the Modern
	3 Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion
	4 From Primitivism to Ethnic Arts
	5 Museums are Good to Think: Heritage on View in India
	6 Remaking Passports: Visual Thought in the Debate on Multiculturalism
	7 Our (Museum) World Turned Upside Down: Re-presenting Native American Arts
	8 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: An Account of Collaboration between Artists, Trustees and an Architect
	9 The Identity Card Project and the Tower of Faces at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
	10 Where is \'Africa\'? Re-Viewing Art and Artifact in the Age of Globalization
Chronological Index of the Texts