Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum DisplayBringing together museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology, Exhibiting Cultures engages in debate over meaning and representation that have accompanied and driven museums' efforts regarding multiculturalism. The contributors 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. |
Contents
Culture and Representation | 11 |
Exhibiting Intention Some Precondi | 33 |
Resonance and Wonder | 42 |
Copyright | |
21 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
activity Aditi aesthetic African Art Alert Bay Anthropology art museums artifacts audience authentic British Columbia British Columbia Museum Cape Mudge Cape Mudge Village catalogue Center for African century Chicano art collection contemporary context craft created curators demonstrations display ence ethnic ethnographic example experience exposition festival Folklife Folklore folklorists forms Gallery groups H. H. Bancroft Hispanic art human Ibid images important India Indian installation interpretation Jewish kind Kwagiulth Kwakiutl Kwakwaka'wakw label living look means Mijikenda murals museum exhibitions Musqueam National Museum Native American nature objects offer organized painting participants performance perspective Photo photographs poetic political potlatch present produced programs rasa rasquache Rasquachismo represent representation resonance ritual role sculpture sense seum Smithsonian Institution social space strategies style Susan Vogel texts things tion traditional tribal U'mista Cultural Centre United Venice viewer visitors visual interest wonder York Zimbabwe