Past Meets Present: Essays About Historic Interpretation and Public Audiences

Language: English

Published by Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1987

0874742331 / 9780874742336

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A crease to bottom corner of front cover, otherwise a good clean tight copy, with no creasing to the spine, of this soft-cover book. A collection of essays by different authors on aspects of presenting History to the public, all from an American perspective as of the mid 1980s. The essays are: ''Past Meets Present: Field Notes on Historical Sites, Programs, Professionalism and Visitors'' by Jo Blatti, ''Taking Down the Velvet Rope: Cultural Geography and the Human Landscape'' by Peirce Lewis, ''Public History and the Historic Preservation District'' by Elizabeth Collins Cromley, ''The Politics of Public History'' by Michael Wallace, ''What Might Have Been and What Has Been: Fictional Public Art about the Real Past'' by Jane Greengold, ''History Museums and the Culture of Materialism'' by Michael J Ettema, ''Photographs 86'' by Patricia Layman Bazelon, ''Exhibition as (Art) Form'' by Barbara Fahs Charles, ''So the Seams Don't Show'' by Irene U Burnham, ''Intentions and Accomplishments: Principles of Museum Evaluation Research'' by Mary Ellen Munley, ''A Broader Vision: Exhibits that Change the Way Visitors Look at the Past'' by Warren Leon, and ''Audience Expectations as Resource and Challenge: Ellis Island as Case Study'' by Michael H Frisch and Dwight Pitcaithley. 169pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Title
Past Meets Present: Essays About Historic Interpretation and Public Audiences
Author
Blatti, Jo (editor)
Publisher
Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC
Publication year
1987
Condition
Good
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No Jacket
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
0874742331
ISBN 13
9780874742336
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