Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Steven D. Lavine
ISBN 10: 1560980214 ISBN 13: 9781560980216
Published by Smithsonian Books, 1991
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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 contributors--museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology--represent 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.
About the Author:
Ivan Karp is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Liberal Arts at Emory University and director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship.
Steven D. Lavine is the president of the California Institute of the Arts.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and ...
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Publication Date: 1991
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 2nd Edition