Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture
Karp, Ivan [Editor]; Kreamer, Christine Mullen [Editor]; Levine, Steven [Editor];
ISBN 10: 156098189X ISBN 13: 9781560981893
Published by Smithsonian Books, 1992
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Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.
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.
Christine Mullen Kreamer is an art historian working in Vietnam and an exhibit developer for the "African Voices" project at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
Steven D. Lavine is the president of the California Institute of the Arts.
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Title: Museums and Communities: The Politics of ...
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: paperback
Condition: Good