Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

Brand: Smithsonian Books

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UPC:
9781560980216
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
5/17/1991
Release Date:
5/17/1991
Author:
Steven D. Lavine
Language:
english
Edition:
Later Printing
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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 contributorsmuseum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropologyrepresent 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.