Understanding the Art Museum / Edition 1

by Barbara Beall-Fofana

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780131950702
Publisher:	Pearson
Publication date:	09/21/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 13.50(h) x 0.45(d)

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