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Harley Parker

The McLuhan of the Museum

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Buch | Softcover
240 Seiten
2025
University of Alberta Press (Verlag)
978-1-77212-793-5 (ISBN)
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Genosko uncovers the legacy of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter, and explores his innovative concepts reshaping museums as perceptual laboratories.
This is the first book about the life and work of Harley Parker (1915-1992), Canadian museum exhibition designer, typographer, and painter. As friend and collaborator of media luminary Marshall McLuhan, Parker's influence extended far beyond the realm of art. In this groundbreaking intellectual biography, Genosko shows that Parker’s unique perspective on museums is based on his application of McLuhan’s medium theory to exhibition design. His emphasis on the role of the senses anticipated much of contemporary sensory studies, which will bring his work into focus for a new generation of scholars. A highlight of Parker’s career as Head of General Display at Toronto’s Royal Ontario Museum (1957-1968) was his Hall of Invertebrate Fossils, which opened to considerable acclaim in early 1967. That same year he mounted a multimedia gallery at the Museum of the City of New York. These milestones underscore Parker's profound impact on museum studies and communication theory. Central to this comprehensive study is the rediscovery of Parker's lost manuscript, The Culture Box, which would have confirmed his role as a central figure in the Toronto School of Communication had it not been lost for some fifty years. Scholars in communication, cultural, and museum studies will benefit from this exploration of Parker’s thought, as will those interested in sensory studies and the enduring value of McLuhan’s ideas.

Gary Genosko is Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University. He has published extensively on Continental thought, communication modelling, administrative surveillance, critical semiotics, and the lives of scholarly journals. His books include McLuhan and Baudrillard: The Masters of Implosion and When Technocultures Collide. He also edited a critical edition of Harley Parker’s The Culture Box (with University of Alberta Press).

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Introduction
1. Typography and Beyond: Events of Connection Between Parker and McLuhan
2. The Making of an Epigrammatic Man
3. Uncanny Selves and Family Resemblances
4. The Hall of Fossils at the Royal Ontario Museum
5. Reordering the Dutch Gallery at the Museum of the History of the City of New York: An Experiment in Museum Communication
6. Regaining the Multisensorial Museum in Translation
Conclusion
References
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag 15.4.2025
Zusatzinfo 14 Illustrations, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 360 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Design / Innenarchitektur / Mode
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10 1-77212-793-0 / 1772127930
ISBN-13 978-1-77212-793-5 / 9781772127935
Zustand Neuware
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