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The Art Museum Redefined

Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement

Palgrave Macmillan

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  • Uses a unique mix of interdisciplinary perspectives to unite an analysis of museums and the urban neighbourhood
  • Takes a scholarly approach to a topic of great interest to both art practitioner and social science researchers
  • Puts emphasis on a non-central neighbourhood and cultural district as a site of research, whilst linking it to other international cases

Part of the book series: Sociology of the Arts (SOA)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
  2. Art Museums and Community Cooperation

    • Johanna K. Taylor
    Pages 1-20
  3. Corona, Community of Global Convergence

    • Johanna K. Taylor
    Pages 21-59
  4. Stronger Together: Cooperation and Collaboration

    • Johanna K. Taylor
    Pages 61-113
  5. Programming Public Space

    • Johanna K. Taylor
    Pages 115-162
  6. The Precarity of Existence Requires Experimentation

    • Johanna K. Taylor
    Pages 163-196
  7. Toward a Cooperative Future: Museums and Community

    • Johanna K. Taylor
    Pages 197-208
  8. Back Matter

    Pages 209-214

About this book

This book presents a critical analysis of the power and opportunity created in the implementation of community engaged practices within art museums, by looking at the networks connecting art museums to community organizations, artists and residents. 


The Art Museum Redefined places the interaction of art museums and urban neighbourhoods as the central focus of the study, to investigate how museums and artists collaborate with residents and local community groups. Rather than defining the community solely from the perspective of a museum looking out at its audience, the research examines the larger networks of art organizing and creative activism connected to the museum that are active across the neighbourhood. Taylor's research encompasses the grassroots efforts of local groups and their collaboration with museums and other art institutions that are extending their reach outside their physical walls and into the community. 


This focus on social engagement speaks to recent emphasis in cultural policy on cultural equity and inclusion, creative place-making and community engagement at neighbourhood and city-levels, and will be of interest to students, scholars and policy-makers alike. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

    Johanna K. Taylor

About the author



Johanna K. Taylor is Assistant Professor at the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University, USA

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Art Museum Redefined

  • Book Subtitle: Power, Opportunity, and Community Engagement

  • Authors: Johanna K. Taylor

  • Series Title: Sociology of the Arts

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21021-2

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21020-5Published: 18 October 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-21023-6Published: 18 October 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-21021-2Published: 04 October 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2569-1414

  • Series E-ISSN: 2569-1406

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 214

  • Number of Illustrations: 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural Policy and Politics, Urban Studies/Sociology

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Softcover Book USD 99.99
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Hardcover Book USD 99.99
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