Title & Author:

Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display / edited by Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine.

Publication:

Washington : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1991]
©1991

Description:

x, 468 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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.
The introduction to this book first appeared as "Museums and Multiculturalism: Who Is in Control?" in Museum News, March/April 1989, copyright ©1989 by the American Association of Museums.
A portion of chapter 17 first appeared as "Making Exhibitions Indian: Aditi and Mela at the Smithsonian Institution," in Michael Meister, ed., Making Things in South Asia: The Role of Artists and Craftsmen, copyright © 1988 by the South Asia Regional Studies Program, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Includes bibliographical references.
[Table of Contents] -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Museums and Multiculturalism / Steven D. Lavine and Ivan Karp -- PART 1: CULTURE AND REPRESENTATION / Ivan Karp -- CHAPTER 1: The Museum as a Way of Seeing / Svetlana Alpers -- CHAPTER 2: Exhibiting Intention: Some Preconditions of the Visual Display of Culturally Purposeful Objects / Michael Baxandall -- CHAPTER 3: Resonance and Wonder / Stephen Greenblatt -- CHAPTER 4: The Poetics of Exhibition in Japanese Culture / Masao Yamaguchi -- CHAPTER 5: Another Past, Another Context: Exhibiting Indian Art Abroad / B.N. Goswamy -- PART 2: ART MUSEUMS, NATIONAL IDENTITY, AND THE STATUS OF MINORITY CULTURES: THE CASE OF HISPANIC ART IN THE UNITED STATES / Steven D. Lavine -- CHAPTER 6: Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship / Carol Duncan -- CHAPTER 7: The Poetics and Politics of Hispanic Art: A New Perspective / Jane Livingston and John Beardsley -- CHAPTER 8: Minorities and Fine-Arts Museums in the United States / Peter C. Marzio -- CHAPTER 9: The Chicano Movement / The Movement of Chicano Art / Tomas Ybarra-Frausto -- PART 3: MUSEUM PRACTICES / Steven D. Lavine -- CHAPTER 10: Locating Authenticity: Fragments of a Dialogue / Spencer R. Crew and James E. Sims -- CHAPTER 11: Noodling Around with Exhibition Opportunities / Elaine Heumann Gurian -- CHAPTER 12: Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion / Susan Vogel -- CHAPTER 13: The Poetic Image and Native American Art / Patrick T. Houlihan -- CHAPTER 14: Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections / James Clifford -- CHAPTER 15: Why Museums Make Me Sad / James A. Boon -- PART 4: FESTIVALS / Ivan Karp -- CHAPTER 16: The Politics of Participation in Folk-life Festivals / Richard Bauman and Patricia Sawin -- CHAPTER 17: Cultural Conservation through Representation: Festival of India Folk-life Exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution / Richard Kurin -- CHAPTER 18: The World as Marketplace: Commodification of the Exotic at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 / Curtis M. Hinsley -- CHAPTER 19: Festivals and Diplomacy / Ted M.G. Tanen -- PART 5: OTHER CULTURES IN MUSEUM PERSPECTIVE / Ivan Karp -- CHAPTER 20: Objects of Ethnography / Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett -- CHAPTER 21: Refocusing or Reorientation? The Exhibit of the Populace: Zimbabwe on the Threshold / Dawson Munjeri -- CHAPTER 22: How Misleading Does an Ethnographical Museum Have to Be? / Kenneth Hudson -- Contributors

Summary:

"Throwing open to debate the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how cultural differences and art objects are displayed. This innovative volume brings together museum directors and curators, art historians, anthropologists, folklorists, and historians to examine how diverse settings have appealed to audiences and represented the intentions and cultures of the makers of objects. The essays address such major issues in the politics of culture as how the learned experience of everyday life is used to make exhibitions comprehensible, what happens to minority and exotic arts when they are assimilated into the hegemonic context of the "great" museums, and why ethnographic museums have been neglected in an age of museum expansion. Based on a landmark conference sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and the Rockefeller Foundation, the book comprises twenty-seven essays by eminent scholars and museum professionals, including Svetlana Alpers, Michael Baxandall, James Boon, James Clifford, B.N. Goswamy, Stephen Greenblatt, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Jane Livingston, Dawson Munjeri, Susan Vogel, Masao Yamaguchi, and Tomas Ybarra-Frausto." -- Dust Jacket.

ISBN:

9781560980209 (cloth)
1560980206 (cloth)
9781560980216 (paper)
1560980214 (paper)
1560980260

Subject:

Museum exhibits Evaluation Congresses.
Museums Public relations Congresses.
Culture diffusion Congresses.
Museums Environmental aspects Congresses.
Museums Educational aspects Congresses.
Expositions Évaluation Congrès.
Muséologie Évaluation Congrès.
Musées Relations publiques Congrès.
Diffusion culturelle Congrès.
Musées Aspect éducatif Congrès.
Objets exposés Évaluation Congrès.
Musées Aspect de l'environnement Congrès.
Museums Educational aspects
Culture diffusion
Museum exhibits Evaluation
Museums Environmental aspects
Museums Public relations
Musea.
Tentoonstellingen.
Museums Exhibitions

Form/genre:

Government publications United States.
Congress
Congresses.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Karp, Ivan, editor.
Lavine, Steven, 1947- editor.
Rockefeller Foundation.

Poetics and politics of museum display

Holdings:

Location: Library main 73306
Call No.: ID PLS; ID:92-B1616
Status: Available

Location: Library main 73305
Call No.: ID PLB; ID:92-B1616
Status: Available