Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

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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.

Paperback: 480 pages

Publisher: Smithsonian Books; 2nd Printing edition (May 17 1991)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1560980214

ISBN-13: 978-1560980216

Product Dimensions: 6 x 1.1 x 9 inches

Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds

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