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Author Karp, Ivan.

Title Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display / edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine
Published Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1991]
©1991
©1991

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Description x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
Analysis Museums Exhibitions
Notes 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Culture diffusion -- Congresses.
Exhibitions -- Evaluation -- Congresses.
Museum techniques -- Evaluation -- Congresses.
Museums -- Educational aspects.
Museums -- Public relations -- Congresses.
Culture diffusion.
Exhibitions -- Evaluation.
Museum exhibits -- Evaluation -- Congresses.
Museum techniques -- Evaluation.
Museums -- Educational aspects -- Congresses.
Museums -- Environmental aspects -- Congresses.
Museums -- Public relations.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Karp, Ivan, editor
Lavine, Steven, 1947- editor
Rockefeller Foundation.
LC no. 90010188
ISBN 1560980206 (cloth)
1560980214 (paper)
9781560980216 (paperback)
Other Titles Poetics and politics of museum display