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Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display / edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine.
- Format:
- Book
- Government document
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museum exhibits--Evaluation--Congresses.
- Museum exhibits.
- Museums--Public relations--Congresses.
- Museums.
- Culture diffusion--Congresses.
- Culture diffusion.
- Museums--Environmental aspects--Congresses.
- Museums--Environmental aspects.
- Museums--Public relations.
- Museum exhibits--Evaluation.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 468 pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Poetics and politics of museum display
- Place of Publication:
- Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1991]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Bringing together museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology, Exhibiting Cultures engages in debate over meaning and representation that have accompanied and driven museums' efforts regarding multiculturalism. The contributors represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.
- Contents:
- Introduction : museums and multiculturalism / Steven D. Lavine and Ivan Karp
- The museum as a way of seeing / Svetlana Alpers
- Exhibiting intention : some preconditions of the visual display of culturally purposeful objects / Michael Baxandall
- Resonance and wonder / Stephen Greenblatt
- The poetics of exhibition in Japanese culture / Masao Yamaguchi
- Another past, another context : exhibiting Indian art abroad / B.N. Goswamy
- Art museums, national identity, and the status of minority cultures : the case of Hispanic art in the United States / Steven D. Lavine
- Art museums and the ritual of citizenship / Carol Duncan
- The poetics and politics of Hispanic art : a new perspective / Jane Livingston and John Beardsley
- Minorities and fine-arts museums in the United States / Peter C. Marzio
- The Chicano movement/the movement of Chicano art / Tomas Ybarra-Frausto
- Locating authenticity : fragments of a dialogue / Spencer R. Crew and James E. Sims
- Noodling around with exhibition opportunities / Elaine Heumann Gurian
- Always true to the object, in our fashion / Susan Vogel
- The poetic image and Native American art / Patrick T. Houlihan
- Four Northwest coast museums : travel reflections / James Clifford
- Why museums make me sad / James A. Boon
- Festivals / Ivan Karp
- The politics of participation in folklife festivals / Richard Bauman and Patricia Sawin
- Cultural conservation through representation : festival of India folklife exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution / Richard Kurin
- The world as marketplace : commodification of the exotic at the world's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 / Curtis M. Hinsley
- Festivals and diplomacy / Ted M.G. Tanen
- Other cultures in museum perspective / Ivan Karp
- Objects of ethnography / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
- Refocusing or reorientation?, the exhibit or the populace : Zimbabwe on the threshold / Dawson Munjeri
- How misleading does an ethnographical museum have to be? / Kenneth Hudson.
- Notes:
- Based on papers presented at a conference entitled 'Poetics and Politics of Representation, ' held at the International Center of Smithsonian Institution, Sept. 26-28, 1988; sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and other institutions.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Exhibiting cultures.
- ISBN:
- 9781588343697
- 1588343693
- Publisher Number:
- 99983967814
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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