Museum, gallery and cultural architecture in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Region essays in Antipodean identity /
In the years since the completion of J©ırn 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 galleri...
| Други автори: | Ostwald, Michael J., Fleming, Steven. |
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| Формат: | Електронен |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Lewiston :
Edwin Mellen Press,
℗♭2007.
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Museum, gallery and cultural architecture in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Region. |
Съдържание:
- 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 J©ırn 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.