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Museum Theory – The international handbooks of museum studies / edited by Andrea Witcomb,Kylie Message / general editors: Sharon Macdonald, Helen Rees Leahy. – First edition.
pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-4051-9850-9 (cloth) | ISBN 978-1-119-64208-4 (pbk.)
1. Museums. 2. Museum exhibits. I. Macdonald, Sharon. II. Leahy, Helen Rees. AM5.I565 2015 069–dc23
2015003407
Cover Design: Wiley Cover Image: Meen Warrann (smallpox) by Maree Clarke. Photo: Dianna Snape, courtesy Museum of Victoria.
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Color plate section
1 8.1 Design Museum exhibit
2 10.1 Interior shot of the Musée du Quai Branly, 2013
3 10.2 Exterior shot of the National Museum of the American Indian, 2012
4 10.3 Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
5 10.4 Lisa Reihana, He Tautoko, 2006, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
6 10.5 Installation view of Otobong Nkanga, Facing the Opponent, Weltkulturen Museum
7 12.1 Saatchi Gallery mark 3
8 12.2 Scott King, Pink Cher, Saatchi Gallery mark 3
9 12.3 Installation view: Scott King and Steven Claydon, Newspeak Part One, 2010
10 12.5 Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991
11 12.6 Damien Hirst, For the Love of God, 2007
12 12.7 Pyramid of the Capitalist System, IWW poster, 1911
13 16.1 Bunjil’s wing kinetic sculpture, First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum
14 16.3 Maree Clarke, Meen Warrann (smallpox), First Peoples exhibition, Melbourne Museum
15 19.1 A zombie of anatomy, Biomedical Center, Uppsala University
16 23.1 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, The Vale of Kashmir, 1995
17 23.2 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Afghan Traders, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, 2007–2009
18 23.3 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, History Painting: Market, Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan, 2008
19 23.4 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Helicopter Landing, View from Roof of Morgue, Southern Iraq, 2007–2009
20 23.5 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Styx, 2005
21 23.6 Lyndell Brown and Charles Green, Hare Rama Hare Krishna, 2008 – 2009
22 24.3 Michelle Guyton, interpretive scrapbook on September 11, 2001
23 25.2 Poetry Tree, Strathewen, 2010, Museum Victoria x
Chapter illustrations
1 8.1 Design Museum exhibit
2 8.2 Design Museum poster
3 9.1 M. NourbeSe Philip, excerpts from Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence, 1991 and Royal Ontario Museum invitation
4 10.1 Interior shot of the Musée du Quai Branly, 2013
5 10.2 Exterior shot of the National Museum of the American Indian, 2012
6 10.3 Our Peoples: Giving Voice to Our Histories at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian
7 10.4 Lisa Reihana, He Tautoko, 2006, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
8 10.5 Installation view of Otobong Nkanga, Facing the Opponent, Weltkulturen Museum
9 12.1 Saatchi Gallery mark 3
10 12.2 Scott King, Pink Cher, Saatchi Gallery mark 3
11 12.3 Installation view: Scott King and Steven Claydon, Newspeak Part One, 2010
12 12.4 Alberto Korda, Guerrillero Heroico, 1960
13 12.5 Damien Hirst, The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991
14 12.6 Damien