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| Genre/Form: | Congresses Congrès |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Exhibiting cultures. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1991 (OCoLC)607822955 Online version: Exhibiting cultures. Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, c1991 (OCoLC)608164157 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Government publication, National government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Ivan Karp; Steven Lavine; Rockefeller Foundation. |
| ISBN: | 1560980206 9781560980209 1560980214 9781560980216 |
| OCLC Number: | 22243403 |
| 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. |
| Description: | x, 468 p. : ill. ; 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. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine. |
Abstract:
Offers information from the conference entitled "Poetics and politics of representation" on setting up museum displays.
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