On the beaten track : tourism, art and place / Lucy R. Lippard.

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Lippard, Lucy R., author.

Title & Author:

On the beaten track : tourism, art and place / Lucy R. Lippard.

Publication:

New York : New Press ; [London] : [I.B. Tauris] (distributor), [1999]

Description:

182 pages : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : on rubbernecking -- The tourist at home -- Trespassing on common ground : a case study -- Surprise packages -- Seduction and hyperbole -- Santa Fe's tricultural trip -- Crossroads everywhere : cultural tourism -- Exhibitionism -- Curiouser and curiouser -- Tragic tourism -- Parking places -- Taken aback, or, the nostalgia trap.

Summary:

"In Lucy Lippard's On the Beaten Track, essays on cultural criticism, anthropology, and community activism are interwoven to examine how tourism sites are conceived and represented, and how they affect the places they transform."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

1565844548
9781565844544
1565846397
9781565846395

Subject:

Tourism.
Tourism Social aspects.
Historic sites.
Lieux historiques.
historic sites.
historic towns.
Toerisme.
Theorie.
Tourism and art.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204070
Call No.: NA7100 .L5 1999
Status: Available

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