Erica Fontana
Biographic Data
| ID | 165329 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Erica Fontana |
| GIVEN NAMES | Erica |
| FAMILY NAME | Fontana |
| SIGNATURE | FONTANA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Meanings of the "Museum Boom" in Contemporary Poland and Elsewhere
The "museum boom" is a global phenomenon with various local manifestations and wide-ranging antecedents. The recent museum boom in Poland, in which a number of national museum complexes have either opened or undergone significant remodeling, is related to changing evidential discourses about collective identity. These discourses are part of the national narratives surrounding the Polish state. This essay asks what can be learned from the Polish m…
Museal Games and Emotional Truths: Creating Polish National Identity at the Warsaw Rising Museum
The Warsaw Rising Museum (WRM), opened in Warsaw in 2004 to commemorate the 1944 rebellion by Polish citizen-soldiers against Nazi occupiers, is considered the first modern historical museum in Poland. During the ten years since its opening, it has had a significant influence not only on public imaginations of the Rising but also subsequent museum trends in Poland. Using Anna Wieczorkiewicz’s concept of the “museal game” in which meaning is produ…
Le Musée d'Art au Hasard: Responses of Black Paris to French museum culture
During the colonial period, Black Paris began to respond to French museum culture. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Joséphine Baker maintained a close association with French museum culture. Other voices from Black Paris surfaced surrounding the Présence Africaine journal in 1947 and the turbulent debates of the 1950s. In the 1980s, the rediscovery of contemporary and popular arts led to a virtual explosion in French gallery and museum spaces. From t…
Museal Games and Emotional Truths: Creating Polish National Identity at the Warsaw Rising Museum
The Warsaw Rising Museum (WRM), opened in Warsaw in 2004 to commemorate the 1944 rebellion by Polish citizen-soldiers against Nazi occupiers, is considered the first modern historical museum in Poland. During the ten years since its opening, it has had a significant influence not only on public imaginations of the Rising but also subsequent museum trends in Poland. Using Anna Wieczorkiewicz’s concept of the “museal game” in which meaning is produ…
Le Musée d'Art au Hasard: Responses of Black Paris to French museum culture
During the colonial period, Black Paris began to respond to French museum culture. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Joséphine Baker maintained a close association with French museum culture. Other voices from Black Paris surfaced surrounding the Présence Africaine journal in 1947 and the turbulent debates of the 1950s. In the 1980s, the rediscovery of contemporary and popular arts led to a virtual explosion in French gallery and museum spaces. From t…
Le Musée d'Art au Hasard: Responses of Black Paris to French museum culture
During the colonial period, Black Paris began to respond to French museum culture. From the 1930s to the 1970s, Joséphine Baker maintained a close association with French museum culture. Other voices from Black Paris surfaced surrounding the Présence Africaine journal in 1947 and the turbulent debates of the 1950s. In the 1980s, the rediscovery of contemporary and popular arts led to a virtual explosion in French gallery and museum spaces. From t…
Museal Games and Emotional Truths: Creating Polish National Identity at the Warsaw Rising Museum
The Warsaw Rising Museum (WRM), opened in Warsaw in 2004 to commemorate the 1944 rebellion by Polish citizen-soldiers against Nazi occupiers, is considered the first modern historical museum in Poland. During the ten years since its opening, it has had a significant influence not only on public imaginations of the Rising but also subsequent museum trends in Poland. Using Anna Wieczorkiewicz’s concept of the “museal game” in which meaning is produ…
Meanings of the "Museum Boom" in Contemporary Poland and Elsewhere
The "museum boom" is a global phenomenon with various local manifestations and wide-ranging antecedents. The recent museum boom in Poland, in which a number of national museum complexes have either opened or undergone significant remodeling, is related to changing evidential discourses about collective identity. These discourses are part of the national narratives surrounding the Polish state. This essay asks what can be learned from the Polish m…
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (2 works) · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · African art (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Cultural Identity and Heritage (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (1 works) · Identification (biology (1 works)