Exhibiting Cultures

副标题: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

ISBN: 9781560980216

出版社: Smithsonian Books

出版年: 1991-5-17

页数: 480

装帧: Paperback

内容简介

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.