Museum politics : power plays at the exhibition / Timothy W. Luke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luke, Timothy W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum exhibits--Political aspects.

Museum exhibits.

Popular culture--Political aspects.

Popular culture.

Culture conflict--Political aspects.

Culture conflict.

Culture diffusion--Political aspects.

Culture diffusion.

Nationalism--Social aspects.

Nationalism.

Political correctness.

Social influence.

Museums--Political aspects.

Museums.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxvi, 265 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this important volume, Timothy W. Luke explores museums' power to shape collective values and social understandings, and argues persuasively that museum exhibitions have a profound effect on the body politic. Through discussions of topics ranging from how the National Holocaust Museum and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles have interpreted the Holocaust to the ways in which the American Museum of Natural History, the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and Tucson's Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum have depicted the natural world, Luke exposes the processes through which museums challenge but more

Contents:

Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays

Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s

Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum

Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia

Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art

Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History

The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life

Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum

Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation

Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum

Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8401-4

OCLC:

355814104