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In twelve essays on such diverse Smithsonian Institution holdings as the Hope Diamond, the Wright Flyer, wooden Zuni carvings, and the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth lunch counter, Exhibiting Dilemmas explores a wide range of social, political, and ethical questions faced by museum curators in their roles as custodians of culture. Focusing on the challenges posed by the transformation of exhibitions from object-driven "cabinets of curiosities" to idea-driven sources of education and entertainment, the contributors - all Smithsonian curators and staff members - provide a lively and sometimes provocative discussion of the increasingly complex enterprise of acquiring and displaying objects in a museum setting.
In showing how the exhibitions in America's national museum can evoke conflicting memories, emotions, and meaning among both curators and a diverse public, Exhibiting Dilemmas airs fundamental issues being confronted by museum professionals worldwide.
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This book is a courageous and candid affirmation of the educational and interpretive responsibilities of history museums. . . . The authors provide eloquent recognition of the need to negotiate a popular yet thoroughly professional path between history and memory, celebration, and commemoration. Michael Kammen, Cornell University
A cultural benchmark. . . . Each [contributor] faces the challenge of bringing an institution founded on the Eurocentric values and colonialist viewpoints of the nineteenth century into line with the values and perspectives of our present multicultural society. "Kansas City Star""
"This book is a courageous and candid affirmation of the educational and interpretive responsibilities of history museums. . . . The authors provide eloquent recognition of the need to negotiate a popular yet thoroughly professional path between history and memory, celebration, and commemoration."--Michael Kammen, Cornell University
About the Author
Amy Henderson, a cultural historian at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, is the author of On the Air: Pioneers of American Broadcasting and coauthor of Red, Hot, & Blue: A Smithsonian Salute to the American Musical.
Adrienne L. Kaeppler is curator of oceanic ethnology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and the author, most recently, of Oceanic Art."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. Cloth, vi, 285 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to boards. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "In twelve essays on such diverse Smithsonian Institution holdings as the Hope Diamond, the Wright Flyer, wooden Zuni carvings, and the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth lunch counter, Exhibiting Dilemmas explores a wide range of social, political, and ethical questions faced by museum curators in their roles as custodians of culture. Focusing on the challenges posed by the transformation of exhibitions from object-driven "cabinets of curiosities" to idea-driven sources of education and entertainment, the contributors - all Smithsonian curators and staff members - provide a lively and sometimes provocative discussion of the increasingly complex enterprise of acquiring and displaying objects in a museum setting. In showing how the exhibitions in America's national museum can evoke conflicting memories, emotions, and meaning among both curators and a diverse public, Exhibiting Dilemmas airs fundamental issues being confronted by museum professionals worldwide." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Exhibiting memories, by Steven Lubar; For museum audiences: the morning of a new day?, by William H. Truettner; Hope diamond: gem, jewel, and icon, by Richard Kurin; Herbert Ward's "ethnographic sculptures" of Africans, by May Jo Arnoldi; Capable of flight: the saga of the 1903 Wright airplane, by Tom D. Crouch; Crystal skulls and other problems: or, "don't look it in the eye", by Jane Maclaren Walsh; Curating the recent past: the Woolworth lunch counter, Greensboro, North Carolina, by William Yeinst and Lonnie G. Bunch; Unstifled muse: the "All in the family" exhibit and popular culture at the National Museum of American History, by Ellen Roney Hughes; Zuni Archangels and Ahayu:da: a sculpted chronicle of power and identity, by William W. Fitzhugh; Ambassadors in sealskins: exhibiting Eskimos at the Smithsonian, by William W. Fitzhugh; Curators as agents of change: an insect zoo for the nineties, by Sally Love; Now for something completely different: reconstructing Duke Ellington's Beggar's Holiday for presentation in a museum setting, by Dwight Blocker Bowers. Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # 098232
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