1st Edition
Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites
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List of contributors
Introduction: Space Unlocked, History Unfrozen: Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites
Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll
Section I: Historic Sites
Chapter 1: A Way Forward for Plantation Sites: Reimagining Space and Relations in the Wake of Black Lives Matter
Hannah Scruggs and Tiya Miles
Chapter 2: Hollywood and Changing Interpretations of a Historic Plantation
Kathleen Powers Conti
Chapter 3: Reanimating Literary House Museums in France: The Homes and Haunts of George Sand and Honoré de Balzac
Elizabeth Emery
Chapter 4: Holiday Decorations, Commercialism and Nostalgia in the UK Historic House Interior
Anne Nellis Richter and Morna O’Neill
Chapter 5: Housing Remembrance: Simon Fujiwara’s Appropriation of the Anne Frank House
Stefan Krämer
Section II: Museums
Chapter 6: Negotiating Tsarist Heritage: Marxist Everyday-Life Museum Displays in the Soviet Union, 1920-1930s
Maria Silina
Chapter 7: Dwelling in the Past Continuous: Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark and the Hermitage’s Genii Loci
Véronique Protoeau
Chapter 8: Salvador Dali’s Rainy Taxi at the Museum: The Disruption of Surrealist Installations
Sandra Zalman
Chapter 9: A Refuge and Asylum: Perforating the Boundaries of the Hermetic Exhibition Space in the 1960s and 1970s
Ana Torok
Chapter 10: Revolting Hunting Trophies: Art Orienté Objet at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature
Sarah Wade
Section III: Period Rooms
Chapter 11: The Period Room as a Crystal of Time
Marie-Ève Marchand
Chapter 12: The Gilded Age Revisited: Yinka Shonibare CBE at The Newark Museum of Art
Christa Clarke
Chapter 13: Bringing Stories Back into Spaces: "Living Rooms" at the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Alexander I. Bortolot and Jennifer Komar Olivarez
Chapter 14: Moving Reality TV into the Period Room: 1900 House
Hélène Valance
Index
Biography
Anca I. Lasc is Associate Professor of Design History in the History of Art and Design Department at Pratt Institute, USA.
Andrew McClellan is Professor of Art History at Tufts University, USA.
Änne Söll is Full Professor for Modern Art History at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
