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Museum Politics : Power Plays At The Exhibition /

In this important volume, Timothy W. Luke explores museums' power to shape collective values and social understandings, and argues persuasively that museum exhibitions have a profound effect on the body politic.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Luke, Timothy W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays
  • Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s
  • Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum
  • Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia
  • Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art
  • Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History
  • The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life
  • Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
  • Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum
  • Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation
  • Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum
  • Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.