Section outline


  • Meeting Point: 

    Morning Session: Grad Centre 103

    Afternoon Session: Tate Britain (please bring all your belongings, lunch, umbrella, etc. so that we can travel together). If you get separated from us, the closest Tube stop is Pimlico (take the District Line to Victoria, switch to the Victoria Line southbound to Pimlico). Meet in Room 5: "Troubled Glamour." See the Tate Britain floor plan here: 

    https://media.tate.org.uk/aztate-prd-ew-dg-wgtail-st1-ctr-data/galleries/TB_map.pdf

    • Essential Reading (ALL ATTACHED BELOW): 

      1. Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, ‘Picturing the Ancestors and Imag(in)ing the Nation’, in Museums and the Interpretation of Visual Culture (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 23–49.
        • DEFINE: "Master narrative"
      2. Benedict Anderson, ‘Introduction’ [extract], in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (London: Verso, 1983) pp. 48–59.
        • QUESTION: In what ways does Anderson consider a nation to be an "imagined community"?
      3. Waldemar Januszczak, 'Tate Britain: Finally, a gallery rehang that works', The Times, February 5 2023.

       

      Further Reading:  

      • D. Boswell & J. Evans, Representing the Nation: A Reader (London: Routledge, 1999).
      • J. Clifford, ‘Museums as Contact Zones’ in Representing the Nation: A Reader (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 435-457.
      • Carol Duncan, ‘Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship’, in Ivan Karp and Stephen Lavine (eds.), Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display (Washington DC/London: The Smithsonian Institution, 1991), 88-103. 
      • Mark Hallett, Reynolds: Portraiture in Action (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2014).
      • Stephen Lavine, ‘Audience, Ownership, and Authority: Designing Relations Between Museums and Communities’ in Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992), pp. 137-157.
      • Sheila Watson (ed.), Museums and Their Communities (Abingdon/New York: Routledge, 2007).


    • Hooper-Greenhill - Picturing the Ancestors File
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    • Anderson - Imagined Communities File
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    • Januszczak - Tate Britain: Finally, a gallery rehang that works URL

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