Congratuations to Professor Anca Lasc on the Recent Publication

Congratulations to Professor Anca Lasc that her edited volume (with Andrew McClellan and Änne Söll), Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites, has just been published.

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Table of Contents:
List of figures

List of contributors

Introduction: Space Unlocked, History Unfrozen: Revisiting the Past in Museums and at Historic Sites

Anca I. Lasc, Andrew McClellan, Änne Söll

Section I: Historic Sites

Chapter 1: A Way Forward for Plantation Sites: Reimagining Space and Relations in the Wake of Black Lives Matter

Hannah Scruggs and Tiya Miles

Chapter 2: Hollywood and Changing Interpretations of a Historic Plantation

Kathleen Powers Conti

Chapter 3: Reanimating Literary House Museums in France: The Homes and Haunts of George Sand and Honoré de Balzac

Elizabeth Emery

Chapter 4: Holiday Decorations, Commercialism and Nostalgia in the UK Historic House Interior

Anne Nellis Richter and Morna O’Neill

Chapter 5: Housing Remembrance: Simon Fujiwara’s Appropriation of the Anne Frank House

Stefan Krämer

Section II: Museums

Chapter 6: Negotiating Tsarist Heritage: Marxist Everyday-Life Museum Displays in the Soviet Union, 1920-1930s

Maria Silina

Chapter 7: Dwelling in the Past Continuous: Alexander Sokurov’s Russian Ark and the Hermitage’s Genii Loci

Véronique Protoeau

Chapter 8: Salvador Dali’s Rainy Taxi at the Museum: The Disruption of Surrealist Installations

Sandra Zalman

Chapter 9: A Refuge and Asylum: Perforating the Boundaries of the Hermetic Exhibition Space in the 1960s and 1970s

Ana Torok

Chapter 10: Revolting Hunting Trophies: Art Orienté Objet at the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature

Sarah Wade

Section III: Period Rooms

Chapter 11: The Period Room as a Crystal of Time

Marie-Ève Marchand

Chapter 12: The Gilded Age Revisited: Yinka Shonibare CBE at The Newark Museum of Art

Christa Clarke

Chapter 13: Bringing Stories Back into Spaces: “Living Rooms” at the Minneapolis Institute of Art

Alexander I. Bortolot and Jennifer Komar Olivarez

Chapter 14: Moving Reality TV into the Period Room: 1900 House

Hélène Valance

Index