Textual Danger in MLA Convergence
The convergence of museums, libraries, and archives challenges museums to maintain their insistence on the intellectual gains to be derived from self-conscious representation through exhibition narrative. Confusingly, all three types of institution have a rationalist epistemological background, and...
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| Yayımlandı: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/iss, |
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| Materyal Türü: | Article ou chapitre numérique |
| Dil: | Anglais |
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ICOFOM Study Series
2018
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| Online Erişim: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Özet: | The convergence of museums, libraries, and archives challenges museums to maintain their insistence on the intellectual gains to be derived from self-conscious representation through exhibition narrative. Confusingly, all three types of institution have a rationalist epistemological background, and all three now work from an epistemology of unstable, politicised meaning. The similarities, however, mask significant differences. Although all three institutions collect and catalogue, the deliberate acts of representation that are undertaken by museums in the construction of narratives mark museums out as fundamentally different. This paper argues that museums have changed paradigmatically, moving away from their long-term institutional companions. Convergence is likely to endanger the textual advances that museums have achieved. |
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