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Title:

Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display / edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine.

Publisher:

Smithsonian Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c1991

Description:

x, 468 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Culture diffusion--Congresses.
Exhibitions--Congresses.--Congresses.
Museum techniques--Congresses.--Congresses.
Museums--Congresses.--Congresses.
Museums--Congresses.--Congresses.
Exhibitions--Exhibitions

Other Authors:

Karp, Ivan.
Lavine, Steven, 1947-
Rockefeller Foundation.

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. Includes bibliographical references.

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.

ISBN:

9781560980216 (paper)
1560980214 (paper)
9781560980209 (cloth)
1560980206 (cloth)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)22243403
(OCoLC)24849294

LCCN:

90010188

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

E7OX522 -- State Historical Society of Iowa Library (Des Moines)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)