SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURES
International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies
Art Museum and Gallery Pre-Programme Reading List
– 2011-2012 –
We suggest that you might find it useful to read some of these books in advance of beginning your
chosen programme. They will help to give you an introduction to the issues and ideas we will cover
in the first module. Please note that we do not expect you to read all of them and you are free to
choose whichever you find most interesting or easy to find. More extensive reading lists will be
provided with each of the individual modules.
Essential:
Corsane, G. (ed) (2005) Heritage, Museums and Galleries: an Introductory Reader, London:
Routledge
McClellan, A. (ed.) (2003) Art and its Publics: Museum Studies at the Millennium, Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing.
Highly recommended:
Barker, E. (ed.) (1999) Contemporary Cultures of Display, New Haven & London: Yale University
Press & The Open University.
Carbonell, B.M. (ed) (2003) Museum Studies in Context, London: Blackwell.
Cuno, J. (ed.) (2004) Whose Muse: art museums and the public trust, Princeton: Princeton
University Press
Davies, S. (2005) The Philosophy of Art, London: Wiley-Blackwell.
Dicks, B. (2004) Culture on Display: The Production of Contemporary Visibility, Buckingham: Open
University Press.
Falk, J. (2009) Identiry and the Museum Visitor Experience, Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press.
Farago, C. and Preziosi, D. (2004) Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum (Histories of Vision),
London: Ashgate.
Graham, B. and Cook, S. (2010) Rethinking Curating: art after new media, Cambridge: MIT Press.
Greenberg, R., Ferguson, B.W. and Nairne, S. (eds) (1999) Thinking About Exhibitions, London:
Routledge
Karp, I. & Lavine, S. D. (eds.) (1992) Museums and Communities: the Politics of Public Culture,
Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press.
Karp, I., Kratz, C.A. and Swaja, L. (eds) (2007), Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global
Transformations, Durham North Carolina: Duke University Press
Kesner, L. (2006) ‘The Role of Cognitive Competence in the Art Museum Experience’, Museum
Management and Curatorship, 20, 1-16.
O’Neill, P. and Wilson, M. (2010) Curating and the Educational Turn, Amsterdam: de Appel.
Marincola, P. (ed.) (2007) What Makes a Great Exhibition?, London: Reaktion Books.
McDonald, S. (ed.) (2006) A Companion to Museum Studies, London: Blackwell
Mc Shine, K., (1999) The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, New York: Museum of Modern Art
Rugg, J. and Sedgwick, M. (2007) Issues in Curating Contemporary Art and Performance, Bristol and
Chicago: Intellect Books.