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The art of the anthropological diorama : Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and constructing authenticity / Noemie Etienne.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Étienne, Noémie, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Museum exhibits--New York (State)--History--20th century.
- Museum exhibits.
- Diorama--New York (State)--History--20th century.
- Diorama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (228 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany ; Boston, Massachusetts : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2021]
- Summary:
- Dioramas are devices on the frontier of different disciplines: art, anthropology, and the natural sciences, to name a few. Their use developed during the nineteenth century, following reforms aimed at reinforcing the educational dimension of museums. While dioramas with human figures are now the subject of healthy criticism and are gradually being dismantled, a thorough study of the work of artists and scientists who made them helps shed light on their genesis. Among other displays, this book examines anthropological dioramas of two North American museums in the early twentieth century: the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the New York State Museum. Sites of creation and mediation of knowledge, combining painting, sculpture, photography, and material culture, dioramas tell a story that is always political.
- Dioramen bewegen sich im Grenzbereich verschiedener Disziplinen. Sie wurden im 19. Jahrhundert im Zuge von Reformen eingeführt, die die pädagogische Dimension der Museen weiterentwickelten. Dioramen mit menschlichen Figuren sind heute scharfer Kritik ausgesetzt. Dieses Buch untersucht die anthropologischen Dioramen zweier nordamerikanischer Museen des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts: des American Museum of Natural History, New York, und des New York State Museum, Albany. Noémie Etienne analysiert die Arbeit der Künstler und Wissenschaftler, die die Dioramen anfertigten, und zeigt, dass Dioramen als Mittel der Wissenserzeugung und -vermittlung eine Geschichte erzählen, die immer politisch ist. Innerhalb des Museums können sie Visionen des Andersseins und der Abstammung erschaffen, die es kritisch zu betrachten gilt.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Trigger Warning
- Introduction
- 1 The Multiple Origins of the Diorama
- 2 The Strategy of the Relic
- 3 Boundary Practitioners
- 4 Fabricating Race
- 5 Authenticity by Contact
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration Credits
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 3-11-074343-4
- OCLC:
- 1264471088
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