Biography

Gordon Fyfe is a Fellow of the University where he taught sociology between 1971 and 2003. His research interests include visual sociology and the sociology of museums.  He is currently writing a book on the subject of museum studies.  Fyfe is a founder editor of the open access journal Museum and Society and Chairman of Leamington Studio Artists. He serves on the editorial boards of The Sociological Review and the Museum History Journal.

Publications

  • Theorizing Museums co-edited with Sharon Macdonald, Basil Blackwell (1996).

  •  Art Modernity and Power (Continuum) 2000.

  • ‘On the Impersonalisation of Cultural Power: Aspects of Victorian Art Institutions’ in M. Hewitt (ed) Culture Institutions, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies (2002).

  • ‘Reproductions, Cultural Capital and Museums: Aspects of the Culture of Copies’ in Museum and Society, vol 2, no 1, (2004).

  • ‘Sociology and Social Aspects of Museums’ in Sharon Macdonald (ed.), A Companion to Museum Studies, Blackwell Publishing, (2006).

  • ‘Pierre Bourdieu’ in Diarmud Costello and Jonathan Vickery (eds), Art: Key Contemporary Thinkers, Berg, (2007).

  • ‘Matters of Rank’ in Rank: Picturing the Social Order, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, (2009).

  • 'Museums, the Sociological Imagination and the Imaginary Museum' in L.B. Peressut and C. Pozzo (eds) Museums in an Age of Migrations, (Mela Books) 2012.

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