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Sacred objects in secular spaces : exhibiting Asian religions in museums /

"We have long recognized that many objects in museums were originally on display in temples, shrines, or monasteries, and were religiously significant to the communities that created and used them. How, though, are such objects to be understood, described, exhibited, and handled now that they a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sullivan, Bruce M., 1951- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London, UK ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Part 1. Exhibiting Hindu and Sikh Religious Objects in Museums. 1. What do Indian images really want? : a biographical approach / Richard H. Davis ; 2. Under the gaze of Kali : exhibitionism in the Kalighat painting exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art / Deepak Sarma ; 3. Reconsecrating the icons : the new phenomenon of yoga in museums / Bruce M. Sullivan ; 4. Sikh museuming / Anne Murphy
  • Part 2. Exhibiting Buddhist Religious Objects in Museums. 5. Planning the Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Gallery of Buddhist Sculpture, 2009-2014 / John Clarke ; 6. Entering the virtual mandala : transformative environments in hybrid spaces / Jeff Durham ; 7. Discovery and display : case studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Denise Patry Leidy ; 8. Mapping cultures, digital exhibitions, learning networks : creative collaborations at Austin College and the Crow Collection of Asian Art / Ivette M. Vargas-O'Bryan
  • Part 3. Religions, Museums, Memory. 9. Curating Asian religious objects in the exhibition Sacred Word and Image : Five World Religions / Janet Baker ; 10. World religions museums : dialogue, domestication, and the sacred gaze / Charles D. Orzech ; 11. Detritus to treasure : memory, metonymy, and the museum / Michael Willis.