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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.

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Exhibiting Cultures, Ivan Karp

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1991
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Título
Exhibiting Cultures
Subtítulo
The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Idioma
Inglés
Autores
Ivan Karp
Publicado en
1991
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
481
ISBN10
1560980214
ISBN13
9781560980216
Serie
Calificación
3,9 de 5
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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.