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Past meets present : essays about historic interpretation and public audiences / Jo Blatti, editor ; photographs by Patricia Layman Bazelon.
LIBRA D16.163 .P37 1987
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection D16.163 .P37 1987
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blatti, Jo, editor.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public history.
- Historical museums--United States.
- Historical museums.
- Museum techniques.
- Public relations--Historical museums.
- Public relations.
- Historic sites--United States.
- Historic sites.
- United States.
- Audiences.
- Physical Description:
- x, 169 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Past Meets Present: Field Notes on Historical Sites, Programs, Professionalism, and Visitors / Jo Blatti
- Section I, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Interpretive Programs: Taking Down the Velvet Rope: Cultural Geography and the Human Landscape / Peirce Lewis
- Public History and the Historic Preservation District / Elizabeth Collins Cromley
- The Politics of Public History / Michael Wallace
- What Might Have Been and What Has Been-Fictional Public Art about the Real Past / Jane Greengold
- History Museums and the Culture of Materialism / Michael J. Ettema
- Photographs / Patricia Layman Barzelon
- Section II, Design and Technique in the Realization of Interpretive Programs: Exhibition as (Art) Form / Barbara Fahs Charles
- So the Seams Don't Show / Irene U. Burnham
- Intentions and Accomplishments: Principles of Museum Evaluation Research / Marey Ellen Munley
- Section III, Finding the Metaphors: A Broader Vision: Exhibits That Change the Way Visitors Look at the Past / Warren Leon
- Audience Expectations as Resource and Challenge: Ellis Island as Case Study / Michael H. Frisch and Dwight Pitcaithley.
- Notes:
- Half-title page verso: "A project of the New York Council for the Humanities."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch; former library book with annotations and stamps.
- ISBN:
- 0874742722
- 0874742331
- OCLC:
- 15017371
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