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Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display / edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1991]Copyright date: ©1991Description: x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1560980206
  • 9781560980209
  • 1560980214
  • 9781560980216
Other title:
  • Poetics and politics of museum display
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Exhibiting cultures.; Online version:: Exhibiting cultures.; No titleDDC classification:
  • 069.5 20
LOC classification:
  • AM151 .E94 1991
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.
Summary: Offers information from the conference entitled "Poetics and politics of representation" on setting up museum displays.
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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.

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.

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

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