Museum, Object and Environment: a play of design

NOTES

• The Powerhouse (Publicity booklet), The Powerhouse, Sydney, 1985, p. 4.
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• Tony Fry, ‘The Powerhouse Displays a Weakness in Design’, Times on Sunday, Sydney, 13 March 1988. This view is also supported by workshop and tutorial work on the Powerhouse which I have conducted with students, and by comment canvassed from the public.
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• See for example: Douglas Crimp, On the Museum's Ruins’, in Hal Foster (ed.), The Anti-Aesthetic, Bay Press, Washington, 1983, pp. 43–56; Cary Carson, ‘Living Museums of everyman's history’, Harvard Magazine, July/August 1981, pp. 22–33; Robert Hewison, The Heritage Industry, Methuen, London, 1987; Robert Lumley (ed.), The Museum Time-Machine, Routledge, London, 1987; Patricia Mainardi, ‘Postmodern History at the Musée d'Orsay’, October, 41, Summer 1987; David Roberts, ‘Beyond Progress: ‘The Museum and Montage’, Theory Culture and Society, 5, 2, June 1988, pp. 543–57.
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• I have discussed the concept of critical distance elsewhere: Tony Fry, ‘Late Modernism vs Post Modernism’, Journal of Art and Art Education, 7, 1985, pp. 11–15.
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• The implications of the view from above (actual and metaphorical) is explored interestingly by Michel De Certeau, ‘Practices of Space’, in Marshall Blonsky (ed.) On Signs, Blackwell, London, 1985, pp. 122–45.
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• Theodor Adorno, Prisms, MIT Press, Cambridge (Mass), 1981, p. 175.
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• Crimp, op. cit., p. 53.
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• Roland Barthes, The Semiotic Challenge, Blackwell, London, 1988, p. 190.
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• Lumley, op. cit., p. 15.
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• George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1967, p. 199.
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• Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction, A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste, trans. R. Nice, Routledge, London, 1986.
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• For an address to narrative appearance see Tony Fry, Design History Australia, Hale and Ironmonger, Sydney, 1988, pp. 119–132.
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• There are many ways of looking at this process as a concrete form: corporate identity, product branding, image marketing, designer products are just some examples. This modality of economy is basic to the analysis of Jean Baudrillard, For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign, Telos Press, St Louis, 1981 (see especially chapters 3 and 8).
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• Issues of oral history are evaluated in: Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies, (Popular Memory Group), Making Histories, Hutchinson, London, 1982.
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• Umberto Eco, Travels in Hyperreality, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich, New York, 1986, p. 7.
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• The problems of judgement and reality are central to Bourdieu's project in Distinction. He locates this in a relation of classification in which the classifying subject is also a classifiable object: Bourdieu, op. cit., p. 482.
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• The production of needs and how they become normative in addressed by William Leiss, The Limits of Satisfaction, Marion Boyers, London, 1976 and Edmond Preteceille and Jean-Pierre Terrail, Capital, Consumption and Needs, Blackwell, London, 1985.
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• The most overt example of this is the rise of cultural tourism. The practice it promotes is that narratives are guided by market demand (telling tourists and sponsors what they want to hear). Cultural tourism is a growing elite end of the tourism industry and a National Association was formed in Melbourne in 1987, largely as a result of pressure of interest and numbers from tour operators. This development also had considerable support from the State of Victoria.
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• Such concerns are examined significantly by Patrick Wright, On Living in an Old Country, Verso, London, 1985.
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