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Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display /

Offers information from the conference entitled "Poetics and politics of representation" on setting up museum displays.

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Rockefeller Foundation
Other Authors: Karp, Ivan, Lavine, Steven, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1991]
Subjects:
Museum exhibits > Evaluation > Congresses.
Museums > Public relations > Congresses.
Culture diffusion > Congresses.
Museums > Environmental aspects > Congresses.
Expositions > Évaluation > Congrès.
Muséologie > Évaluation > Congrès.
Musées > Relations publiques > Congrès.
Diffusion culturelle > Congrès.
Musées > Aspect éducatif > Congrès.
Culture diffusion.
Museum exhibits > Evaluation.
Museums > Environmental aspects.
Museums > Public relations.
Musea.
Tentoonstellingen.
Museums > Exhibitions
Conference papers and proceedings.
ISBN:9781560980209
1560980206
9781560980216
1560980214
Table of 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.

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