TY  - BOOK
AU  - Karp,Ivan
AU  - Lavine,Steven
ED  - Rockefeller Foundation.
TI  - Exhibiting cultures: the poetics and politics of museum display 
SN  - 1560980206
AV  - AM151 .E94 1991
U1  - 069.5 20
PY  - 1991///]
CY  - Washington
PB  - Smithsonian Institution Press
KW  - Museum exhibits
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Congresses
KW  - Museums
KW  - Public relations
KW  - Culture diffusion
KW  - Environmental aspects
N1  - 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
N2  - Offers information from the conference entitled "Poetics and politics of representation" on setting up museum displays
ER  -