Beyond institutional critique: Mark Dion’s surrealist wunderkammer at the Manchester Museum

Mark Dion’s Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, which opened at the Manchester Museum in May 2005, seems to represent a crossover between an old curator’s office, a storage room and a sixteenth century cabinet of curiosities. This essay closely examines two aspects of th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marion Endt-Jones
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Leicester 2007-03-01
Series:Museum & Society
Online Access:https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/89