By the first half of the twentieth century, vast numbers of the UK’s towns and cities had formed their own municipal museums and their collections had swelled with non-European material culture sourced from across the world. Such institutions provided a British public with a unique medium through which to comprehend and appropriate their Empire and its peoples, but what were the messages that provincial museums conveyed, and how where they received by local audiences? What was the relationship between intended meaning and the popular understanding inspired by these displays? Critiquing Foucauldian assumptions about the pervasive nature of curatorial control of audience reception, this chapter explores the practicalities of displaying and vi...
This thesis is a study of how communication takes place in museum exhibitions. The curatorial teams ...
In Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt outlines her understanding o...
This thesis is a study of how communication takes place in museum exhibitions. The curatorial teams ...
Book review. While discussions of the relations between museums and empire are now well developed, t...
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and repr...
During the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of territory an...
PhD ThesisDuring the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of t...
In the last two decades, museums have been theorised as «sites in which socially and culturally embe...
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, pho...
Apparitions of empire and imperial ideologies were deeply embedded in the International Exhibition, ...
This paper examines the virtual invisibility of colonial art in British art museums today, despite a...
This article examines the British Museum’s imperialist attitudes towards classical heritage. Despite...
Museums were both produced by and producers of the ideals that drove the growth of European empires....
Imperial history in general received very little attention in British universities until the 1950s. ...
In Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt outlines her understanding o...
This thesis is a study of how communication takes place in museum exhibitions. The curatorial teams ...
In Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt outlines her understanding o...
This thesis is a study of how communication takes place in museum exhibitions. The curatorial teams ...
Book review. While discussions of the relations between museums and empire are now well developed, t...
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and repr...
During the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of territory an...
PhD ThesisDuring the nineteenth century, when the British Empire was nearing its peak in terms of t...
In the last two decades, museums have been theorised as «sites in which socially and culturally embe...
Exhibiting the empire considers how a whole range of cultural products - from paintings, prints, pho...
Apparitions of empire and imperial ideologies were deeply embedded in the International Exhibition, ...
This paper examines the virtual invisibility of colonial art in British art museums today, despite a...
This article examines the British Museum’s imperialist attitudes towards classical heritage. Despite...
Museums were both produced by and producers of the ideals that drove the growth of European empires....
Imperial history in general received very little attention in British universities until the 1950s. ...
In Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt outlines her understanding o...
This thesis is a study of how communication takes place in museum exhibitions. The curatorial teams ...
In Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation Mary Louise Pratt outlines her understanding o...
This thesis is a study of how communication takes place in museum exhibitions. The curatorial teams ...