Museum pieces : toward the indigenization of Canadian museums / Ruth B. Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, Ruth B. (Ruth Bliss), 1945-

Series:

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.

McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; [7]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museum exhibits--Canada.

Museum exhibits.

Museums and Indigenous peoples--Canada.

Museums and Indigenous peoples.

Museums--Political aspects--Canada.

Museums.

Museums--Social aspects--Canada.

Canada--Cultural policy.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Emphasizes the transformative power of museum controversy and analyses shifting ideas about art, authenticity, and power in the modern museum.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Confrontation and contestation. Undoing the Settler Museum: showing off and showing up. "Arrow of truth": the Indians of Canada Pavilion at Expo 67 / with Sherry Brydon

Moment of truth: The Spirit Sings as critical event and the exhibition inside it

APEC at the Muesum of Anthropology: the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite

Pt. 2. Re-disciplining the museum. Exclusions and inclusions: authenticity, sacrality, and possession. How museums marginalize: naming domains of inclusion and exclusion

Fielding culture: dialogues between art history and anthropology

Disappearing acts: traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and the sacrality of Onkwehonwe medicine masks

The global travels of a Mi'kmaq coat: colonial legacies, repatriation, and the new cosmopolitanism

Pt. 3. Working it out. Indigenizing exhibitions: experiments and practices. Making space: First Nations artists, the National Museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992)

Cancelling white noise: Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994)

Threads of the Land at the Canadian Museum of Civlization (1995)

Toward a dialogic paradigm: new models of collaborative curatorial practice

Inside-out and outside-in: re-presenting native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and the National Museum of American Indian (2003-2004)

Pt. 4. The second museum age. Working with hybridity. From harmony to antiphony: the indigenous presence in a (future) Portrait Gallery of Canada

Modes of inclusion: indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario

The digital (r)evolution of museums-based research

"Learning to feed off controversies": meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7735-3906-9

OCLC:

811411349