| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages) : illustrations (some color), portraits |
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McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; [7] |
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McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history.
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| Contents |
pt. 1. Confrontation and contestation. Undoing the settler museum : showing off and showing up -- "Arrow of truth" : the Indians of Canada pavilion at Expo 67, with Sherry Brydon -- Moment of truth : The Spirit Sings as critical event and the exhibition inside it -- APEC at the Museum of Anthropology : the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite |
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pt. 2. Re-disciplining the museum. Exclusions and inclusions : authenticity, sacrality, and possession -- How museums marginalize : naming domains of inclusion and exclusion -- Fielding culture : dialogues between art history and anthropology -- Disappearing acts : traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and the sacrality of Onkwehonwe medicine masks -- Global travels of a Mi'kmaq coat : colonial legacies, repatriation, and the new cosmopolitanism |
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pt. 3. Working it out. Indigenizing exhibitions : experiments and practices -- Making space : First Nations artists, the national museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992) -- Cancelling white noise : Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994) -- Threads of the Land at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1995) -- Toward a dialogic paradigm : new models of collaborative curatorial practice -- Inside-out and outside-in : re-presenting Native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004) |
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pt. 4. Second museum age. Working with hybridity -- From harmony to antiphony : the Indigenous presence in a (future) Portrait Gallery of Canada -- Modes of inclusion : Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario -- Digital (r)evolution of museum-based research -- "Learning to feed off controversies" : meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums |
| Summary |
Emphasizes the transformative power of museum controversy and analyses shifting ideas about art, authenticity, and power in the modern museum |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Museum exhibits -- Canada
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Museums and Indians -- Canada
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Museums -- Political aspects -- Canada
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Museums -- Social aspects -- Canada
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Native American Studies.
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Museum exhibits
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Museums and Indians
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Museums -- Political aspects
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Museums -- Social aspects
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Canada
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012376159 |
| ISBN |
9780773587465 |
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0773587462 |
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