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Layers of Time: Industrial Ruins and Exhibitionary Temporalities

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 October 2020

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Walking Through an Exhibit Takes Time: Time to Navigate the Museum Building, Time to Encounter Objects on Display That Witnessed times long past, or time to reflect on the relations among the presented past, the experienced present, and an imaginative future. Eliciting historical and aesthetic affect, museums are ineluctably bound up with temporalities—of viewing, of display, and of representation.

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Theories and Methodologies
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Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 2010

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