Art Museum attendance and the public realm: The agency of visitor information in Tate's organisational practices of making the art museum's audiences
PhD Thesis
Young, V. (2020). Art Museum attendance and the public realm: The agency of visitor information in Tate's organisational practices of making the art museum's audiences. PhD Thesis https://doi.org/10.18744/lsbu.9499v
Authors | Young, V. |
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Type | PhD Thesis |
Abstract | This study presents an original contribution to knowledge in its investigation of Tate’s strategic practices of audience, via materially-traced networks of action. In recent years, museological literature has examined issues of access and evaluation, their relation to cultural policy, and the wider framework of value delivery within the public realm. The present study employs ethnographic observation over a fifteen month period, combined with a theoretical approach, to trace and describe the social construction of Tate’s understandings of its audiences. The study provides insights into how the visitor information is generated, distributed, mediated, valued and applied across the various departments of the museum, and in what forms it exerts agency upon the daily |
Year | 2020 |
Publisher | London South Bank University |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.18744/lsbu.9499v |
File | License File Access Level Open |
Publication dates | |
17 Feb 2020 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 31 Jul 2023 |
Funder/Client | Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
Additional information | This research programme was funded |
https://openresearch.lsbu.ac.uk/item/9499v
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