Museum, gallery and cultural architecture in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Region : essays in Antipodean identity /

In the years since the completion of Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House countries throughout the South Pacific have displayed a particular fascination with the possibility that architecture may be able to embody regional cultural identity. This book examines a number of major museums, art gallerie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ostwald, Michael J., Fleming, Steven
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, ©2007.
Temas:
1900-1999
Museum architecture > Australasia.
Arts facilities > Australasia > History > 20th century.
Architecture and society > Australasia > History > 20th century.
Architecture des musées > Australasie.
Architecture et société > Australasie > Histoire > 20e siècle.
ARCHITECTURE > Buildings > Public, Commercial & Industrial.
Architecture and society.
Arts facilities.
Museum architecture.
Kulturbau.
Australasia.
Australien
Neuseeland
Pazifischer Raum
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface / Professor Lindsay Johnston
  • Acknowledgements
  • Geography, Culture and the Construction of Identity
  • Isolation and the periphery
  • Cultural Constructions in the Antipodes
  • An Architecture of Persuasion: The Rhetorical Structure of Jørn Utzon's Sydney Opera House
  • Introduction
  • Alternative interpretation: Rhetoric and Gesture
  • The Fifth Elevation
  • Alive to the Eyes
  • Conclusion
  • A Choral Work: The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
  • Introduction
  • Triton Genos
  • National Identity
  • Architectural Concept
  • Triton Genos
  • The WA Maritime Museum, the Swan Bell Tower and the lure of the sea
  • Introduction
  • The Western Australian Maritime Museum
  • The Swan Bell Tower
  • Conclusion
  • National Museum of Australia and the Australian Status Quo
  • Intorduction
  • The Context of the NMA
  • A Framework for Analysis
  • Interpreting the NMA
  • Museological Landscapes, Mythological Lands: The Garden of Australian Dreams
  • Introduction
  • The Layout of the Garden of Australian Dreams.
  • A 'Map' that can be Experienced
  • Conclusion
  • The Eltham Library: Knowing and Doing in the Architecture of Gregory Burgess
  • Doing
  • Knowing
  • Conclusion
  • From critique to orthodoxy, from National Gallery of Victoria (1968) to NGV International (2003)
  • Introduction
  • Context: the site and the architect
  • Overseas research
  • Concept design 1960
  • Interior design
  • Reception 1968
  • Sources of the Design
  • National Gallery of Victoria 1969-1995
  • National Gallery of Victoria 1996-2003
  • Bellini at the NGV International
  • The Galleries
  • Another View
  • Federation Square: Untangling the Post-Completion Politics
  • Introduction
  • Australian Centre for Contemporary Art
  • Storey Hall
  • Federation Square's aperiodic facade tiling
  • Life Between Buildings
  • Conclusion
  • Pacific Culture Centres and Antipodean Museums
  • Antipodean Identity
  • Consumption of Artefacts
  • The Polynesian Culture Center
  • The Tjibaou Culture Center
  • Fractured Strata or Common Ground
  • Concluding Themes
  • Pacific and Atlantic Fissures.

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