Book chapter

Museum, magic, memory: a curatorial aesthetic imaginary

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Creator
  • Adams, Julie
2019

Abstract
  • The space of the museum offers a unique opportunity to concretise the possibilities of new aesthetic imaginaries, from the curation of large-scale exhibitions to the intimate gaze invited by an object plucked from anonymity in storage and placed in a vitrine. In this essay, I explore an exhibition I curated in 2014, regarding the life and work of Paul Denys Montague, a fledgling anthropologist who worked in New Caledonia in 1914.

Metadata

Resource Type
  • Book chapter
Creator
  • Adams, Julie
Date published
  • 2019
Institution
  • British Museum
Project name
  • Aesthetic Imaginaries
Funder
  • Name: University of Bergen 
Book title
  • Emerging Aesthetic Imaginaries
Editor
  • Johannessen, Lene M.
  • Ledbetter, Mark
Pagination
  • 35-49
Publisher
  • Lexington Books
Place of publication
  • Maryland
ISBN
  • 9781498571999
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