Cultures of the Countryside Art, Museum, Heritage, and Environment, 1970-2015
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2017
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781472423467
Publisert
2017-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
298
Forfatter
Biographical note
Veronica Sekules was formerly Deputy Director and Head of Education and Research at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, UK, after an early career start in the environment movement and as a curator and writer. She is now Director of GroundWork Gallery in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, a new space dedicated to art and the environment.
Cultures of the Countryside examines the relationship between the museum and the micro-cultures of the countryside. Offering an exploration of museums and heritage projects in the UK that have attempted to introduce new ways of engagement between localities, objects, and people, this book considers how museums, heritage initiatives, and art projects have dealt with pressing local and global socio-political issues relating to the environment and rural life, including changing demographics and rural practices, local environmental concerns, and global climate activism.Providing a thorough examination of the representation of competing histories, visions and politics, Sekules asks whether museums and heritage projects can engage actively in shaping cultures, as well as reflecting them. At the core of the analysis is an examination of the findings from a project in the UK’s East Anglia, ‘The Culture of the Countryside’, from which emerged themes closely bound to different countryside landscapes, peoples and heritage.Aimed at practitioners and students alike, Cultures of the Countryside provides a unique insight into the roles of the museum and heritage projects in rural and environmental issues in the recent past, whilst also offering perspectives and recommendations for the future.
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This book traces the relationship between the museum and the micro-cultures of the countryside over the last 50 years, which has been a period of extraordinary tensions and change for the countryside.
IntroductionChapter 1: CountrificationCountry and CityFrom Preservation to Protection to Campaigning for the CountrysideWorld Down to EarthProtecting the LocalMoving to the CountryWhat does the Countryside Mean to You?Not the Middle of Nowhere?Chapter 2: Nostalgia, Art, and Folk LifeMuseum and MechanisationCollections and AudiencesNostalgia for the Working HorseFolk-like in the MuseumFolk Culture: Survival and RevivalArtefacts and FolkChapter 3: Heritagisation and the ‘Open Air’Public-Private Stewardship of Nature-CultureOpen Air Heritage and DemocratisationLandscape and HeritagisationInterpretationIn the FieldLittle Ouse Headwaters ProjectStewardship and the Working LandscapeChapter 4: Education and the CountrysideThe School in the CountrysideChildren’s Countryside KnowledgeEnvironment Education and the CountrysideThe Museum and Countryside EducationOutdoor Learning in the CountrysideHarmony and Subversion in the ForestEducation and Artists in the CountrysideChapter 5: Global VillageBME (Black and Minority Ethnic) Cultural Politics in the CountrysideNorfolk, Suffolk, and Papua New GuineaAnother Way of LearningMiddlesbrough HakaArtist as EthnographerGlobalising Village ConnectionsFrom ‘Cosmopolitan Contamination’ to Invasive Alien SpeciesChapter 6: At the Edge of the FarmDiversity of FarmsOn the Edge of the FarmCalamities and Creative Consequences‘More about Human Intellect than Human Muscle’Images of FarmingThe Farm and the Artist-EthnographerThe Museumification of FoodThe Cross-Disciplinary FarmChapter 7: The Local ContemporaryCrafts and Categories of ProductionLand Art to Local DistinctivenessPlace and PerformanceRethinking the Country Town through ArtGrizedale Arts, a ‘Cosmopolitan Leisure Zone’Artistic Practice as Part of Cultural Change in the CountrysideResidency and ReputationOpportunism and EntrepreneurshipChapter 8: Changing LandscapesRegeneration, Personality, and EnterpriseRegeneration, Conviction, and GlobalisationRegeneration, Heritage, and CommunityConclusion: The Cultures around Arts, Heritage, and EnvironmentIndex
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781472423467
Publisert
2017-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
453 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
298
Forfatter
Biographical note
Veronica Sekules was formerly Deputy Director and Head of Education and Research at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, UK, after an early career start in the environment movement and as a curator and writer. She is now Director of GroundWork Gallery in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, a new space dedicated to art and the environment.