Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
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- Synopsis
- Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors--museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology--represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.From the Trade Paperback edition.
- Copyright:
- 1991
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781588343697
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781560980216
- Publisher:
- Smithsonian
- Date of Addition:
- 05/14/21
- Copyrighted By:
- Smithsonian Institution.
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Art and Architecture
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- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.