theory and method Whitehead, Christopher 1972- creator author. text bibliography enk 2025 2025 monographic eng 1 online resource (xxii, 233 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color) "Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks and methods, charting major contributions to the field and exploring their potentials and limitations. How and why should we study museum display, and what is its nature as a complex form of representation? The book argues that display is at once material, experiential, and political in producing knowledge and that analysis requires rigorous conceptualization and careful methodologies. It provides a critical guide to existing concepts and methods, exploring how museum display can be understood using semiotic, narrative, cartographic, and spatial analyses, assemblage theory, new materialist and multisensory approaches, and theories of affect, emotion, and historical positioning. Alongside this, Whitehead presents key orientations for research practice relating to objectivity and subjectivity, historical and contextual awareness, and mixing methods. Analysing Museum Display will be essential reading for scholars and students of museology at all levels. The book will also appeal to museum curators and professionals who are involved in the production of display and wish to develop a more theorised and reflective perspective on their own practice"-- What is display? -- Why Analyse Display? -- Script, Ritual, Performance -- Text, Narrative, Exposure -- Affect, Assemblage, Atmosphere -- Map, Space, Positioning -- Orientations for Analytical Practice. Christopher Whitehead. Museum exhibits Philosophy AM151 .W55 2025 9781351001649 1351001647 9781351001625 1351001620 9781351001618 1351001612 9781351001632 1351001639 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351001649 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351001649 http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf OCoLC-P 240621 20251030122307.0 9781351001649 eng