Graphic Design In Museum Exhibitions
Issued Date
Copyright Date
2021
Resource Type
Edition
1
Language
eng
Book
Book
File Type
application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
263
ISBN
9781138350373
Rights Holder(s)
สถานบันพิพิธภัณฑ์การเรียนรู้แห่งชาติ
Author(s)
Abstract
Graphic Design in Museum Exhibitions offers an in-depth analysis of the multiple roles that exhibition graphics perform in contemporary museums and exhibitions.
Drawing on a study of exhibitions that took place at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, the Museum of London and the Haus der Geschichte, Bonn, Piehl brings together approaches from museum studies, design practice and narrative theory to examine museum exhibitions as multimodal narratives in which graphics account for one set of narrative resources. The analysis underlines the importance of aspects such as accessibility and at the same time problematises conceptualisations that focus only on the effectiveness of graphics as display device, by drawing attention to the contributions that graphics make towards the content on display and to the ways in which it is experienced in the museum space.
Table of contents
CONTENTS
List of figures Acknowledgements
ix
xii
1
Framing and reframing exhibition graphic design Graphic design in museum exhibitions 4
Exhibitions and exhibition narratives 11 Perspectives on exhibition graphics 14
Analysing exhibition graphic design 18
Exhibition graphics as means of display Talking about exhibition graphics 36
The distributed text 40
Strategies of coding 48
Access and orientation 60
Exhibition graphics as a graphic genre 68
Exhibition graphics as expressions of institutional identity Brand museum 84
Expressions of visual identity in the exhibition 94
Exhibition authorship 100
Exhibition graphics as visual content Multimodal narratives 118
Time and space 120
Participants of the storyworld 135
Narrators and narrative constructions 142 Legibility of visual content 151
ation narration158
Exhibition graphics as a resource of exhibition narrati Staging stories 158
Materiality, production and installation 161
Spatial-visual configurations 165
The shape of the text 184 Reading exhibition narratives 191
Negotiating the multiple roles of exhibition graphics Relationships, tensions, conflicts 200
Negotiations 209 Exhibition graphics and the medium exhibition 211
Exhibition graphics in the context of larger discourses 215
and exhibition-making practice 226
List of exhibitions and museums Bibliography Index257