Exhibiting cultures :  the poetics and politics of museum display / 
 Poetics and politics of museum display 
edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine. 
 - x, 468 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/> Introduction :  museums and multiculturalism /  The museum as a way of seeing /  Exhibiting intention :  some preconditions of the visual display of culturally purposeful objects /  Resonance and wonder /  The poetics of exhibition in Japanese culture /  Another past, another context :  exhibiting Indian art abroad /  Art museums, national identity, and the status of minority cultures :  the case of Hispanic art in the United States /  Art museums and the ritual of citizenship /  The poetics and politics of Hispanic art :  a new perspective /  Minorities and fine-arts museums in the United States /  The Chicano movement/the movement of Chicano art /  Locating authenticity :  fragments of a dialogue /  Noodling around with exhibition opportunities /  Always true to the object, in our fashion /  The poetic image and Native American art /  Four Northwest coast museums :  travel reflections /  Why museums make me sad /  Festivals /  The politics of participation in folklife festivals /  Cultural conservation through representation :  festival of India folklife exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution /  The world as marketplace :  commodification of the exotic at the world's Columbian exposition, Chicago, 1893 /  Festivals and diplomacy /  Other cultures in museum perspective /  Objects of ethnography /  Refocusing or reorientation?, the exhibit or the populace :  Zimbabwe on the threshold /  How misleading does an ethnographical museum have to be? /  Steven D. Lavine and Ivan Karp --  Svetlana Alpers --  Michael Baxandall --  Stephen Greenblatt --  Masao Yamaguchi --  B.N. Goswamy --  Steven D. Lavine --  Carol Duncan --  Jane Livingston and John Beardsley --  Peter C. Marzio --  Tomas Ybarra-Frausto --  Spencer R. Crew and James E. Sims --  Elaine Heumann Gurian --  Susan Vogel --  Patrick T. Houlihan --  James Clifford --  James A. Boon --  Ivan Karp --  Richard Bauman and Patricia Sawin --  Richard Kurin --  Curtis M. Hinsley --  Ted M.G. Tanen --  Ivan Karp --  Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett --  Dawson Munjeri --  Kenneth Hudson. 
<br/><br/> Offers information from the conference entitled "Poetics and politics of representation" on setting up museum displays. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1560980206 9781560980209 1560980214 9781560980216 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>90010188 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Museum exhibits--Evaluation--Congresses<br/>Museums--Public relations--Congresses<br/>Culture diffusion--Congresses<br/>Museums--Environmental aspects--Congresses
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>AM151  / .E94 1991 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>069.5