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Museum politics : power plays at the exhibition
- Title
- Museum politics : power plays at the exhibition / Timothy W. Luke.
- Author
- Luke, Timothy W.
- Publication
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2002.
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Details
- Description
- xxvi, 265 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- Discusses the social, political, and moral implications of museum exhibitions as varied as the Enola Gay display at the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum and the Sensation exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
- Subject
- Museum exhibits > Political aspects
- Popular culture > Political aspects
- Culture conflict > Political aspects
- Culture diffusion > Political aspects
- Nationalism > Social aspects
- Political correctness
- Social influence
- Museums > Political aspects
- Museums
- Politics, Practical
- Sociology
- Museums
- Politics
- Sociology
- museums (institutions)
- politics
- sociology
- Politics, Practical
- Culture conflict > Political aspects
- Museum exhibits > Political aspects
- Museums > Political aspects
- Nationalism > Social aspects
- Political correctness
- Popular culture > Political aspects
- Social influence
- Museumspolitik
- Ausstellung
- Political Correctness
- Museum
- Musea
- Tentoonstellingen
- Politieke invloed
- Exposições museológicas (aspectos políticos)
- Cultura popular (aspectos políticos)
- Museus (aspectos políticos)
- Musée
- Objet exposé
- Aspect politique
- Culture populaire
- Conflit culturel
- Diffusion culturelle
- Politique muséale
- Rectitude politique
- Nationalisme
- Exposition
- Impact social
- USA
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-258) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : museum exhibitions as power plays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars -- 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.
- ISBN
- 0816619883
- 9780816619887
- 0816619891
- 9780816619894
- LCCN
- 2001007532
- OCLC
- ocm48588172
- 48588172
- SCSB-1251721
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library