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Islamic art and the museum: approaches to art and archaeology of the Muslim world in the twenty-first century

Islamic art and the museum: approaches to art and archaeology of the Muslim world in the twenty-first century
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ISBN 0863564135 (pbk.)
9780863564130 (pbk.)
Title Islamic art and the museum : approaches to art and archaeology of the Muslim world in the twenty-first century / edited by Benoît Junod ... [et al.]
Publisher London : Saqi, 2012
Physical desc. 374 p. ; ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Note Papers from the conference, Layers of Islamic art and the museum context, held at the Museum for Islamic Art, Berlin, 13-16 January 2010.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Introduction. Islamic art and the museum / Benoît Junod, Georges Khalil, Stefan Weber, Gerhard Wolf -- The role of the museum in the study and knowledge of Islamic art / Oleg Grabar -- A concert of things: thoughts on objects of Islamic art in the museum context / Stefan Weber -- Representations of Islamic art. The concept of Islamic art: inherited discourses and new approaches / Gülru Necipoğlu -- Islamic art at a crossroads? / Nasser Rabbat -- Intrinsic goals and external influence: on some factors affecting research and presentation of Islamic art / Lorenz Korn -- The study of Islamic art at a crossroads, and humanity as a whole / Kirsten Scheid -- Preliminary thoughts on an entangled presentation of 'Islamic art' / Vera Beyer -- Context and aesthetics. Multivalent paradigms of interpretation and the aura or anima of the object / Avinoam Shalem -- The stuff of history: everyday objects, the construction of ambiguous meanings, and the 'afterlife' of social things / Christian Sassmannshausen -- The cultural turn, the spatial turn and the writing of Middle Eastern history / Gudrun Krämer -- The power of layers or the layers of power? the social life of things as the backbone of new narratives / Beshara Doumani -- A historian's task: make sure the object does not turn against itself in the museum / Munir Fakher Eldin -- Aesthetics versus context? towards new strategies for the study of the object / Martina Müller-Wiener -- Islamic art versus material culture: museum of Islamic art or museum of Islamic culture? / Julia Gonnella -- Foundation and change. Subthemes and overpaint: exhibiting Islamic art in American art museums / Mary McWilliams -- Early Islamic art history in Germany and concepts of object and exhibitions / Jens Kröger -- Islamic art and the invention of the 'masterpiece': approaches in early twentieth-century scholarship / Eva Troelenberg -- The Jameel Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London: working from vision to reality / Juliette Fritsch -- Do you speak Islamic art? the museological laboratory / Christine Gerbich, Susan Kamel, Susanne Lanwerd -- Museums of Islamic art and public engagement / Seif El-Rashidi -- Museums and their formation / Miriam Kühn -- Examples from the museum world. Concepts behind the new installation of Islamic art in the David Collection / Kjeld von Folsach -- The option of 'interim' reinstallation: Brooklyn Museum's Arts of the Islamic World galleries / Ladan Akbarnia -- The Museum of Islamic Art, Doha / Oliver Watson -- Islamic art in the Hermitage Museum: projects and plans / Anton D. Pritula -- Islamic art at the British Museum: strategies and perspectives / Fahmida Suleman -- The Aga Khan Museum in Toronto / Benoît Junod -- New spaces for old treasures: plans for the new Museum of Islamic Art at the Pergamon Museum / Stefan Weber -- 'A wooden room with many doors ...': social, physical and intellectual accessibility at the Museum of Islamic Art in Berlin / Christine Gerbich.
Subject Islamic art -- Congresses
Museums -- Collection management -- Congresses
Museum exhibits -- Congresses
Added name(s) Junod, Benoît ed.
Added name(s) - Corporate Museum für Islamische Kunst (Berlin, Germany)
Fritz Thyssen-Stiftung
Aga Khan Trust for Culture
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