Exhibiting cultures: the poetics and politics of museum display 9781560980209, 1560980206, 9781560980216, 1560980214

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Acknowledgements




Introduction: Museums and Multiculturalism Steven D. Lavine and Ivan Karp

1
PART 1:

Culture and Representation
Ivan Karp

11
CHAP.1:

The Museum as a Way of Seeing
Svetlana Alpers

25
CHAP.2:

Exhibiting Intention: Some Preconditions of the Visual Display of Culturally Purposeful Objects Michael Baxandall

33
CHAP.3:

Resonance and Wonder
Stephen Greenblatt

42
CHAP.4:

The Poetics of Exhibition in Japanese Culture Masao Yamaguchi

57
CHAP.5:

Another Past, Another Context: Exhibiting Indian Art Abroad
B. N. Goswamy

68
PART 2:

Art Museums, National Identity, and the Status of Minority Cultures: The Case of Hispanic Art in the United States
Steven D. Lavine

79
CHAP.6:

Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship
Carol Duncan

88
CHAP.7:

The Poetics and Politics of Hispanic Art: A New Perspective
Jane Livingston and John Beardsley

104
CHAP.8:

Minorities and Fine-Arts Museums in the United States
Peter C. Marzio

121
CHAP.9:

The Chicano Movement/The Movement of Chicano Art Tomas Ybarra-Frausto

128
PART 3:

Museum Practices
Steven D. Lavine

151
CHAP.10:

Locating Authenticity: Fragments of a Dialogue Spencer R. Crew and James E. Sims

159
CHAP.11:

Noodling Around with Exhibition Opportunities Elaine Heumann Gurian

176
CHAP.12:

Always True to the Object, in Our Fashion
Susan Vogel

191
CHAP.13:

The Poetic Image and Native American Art
Patrick T. Houlihan

205
CHAP.14:

Four Northwest Coast Museums: Travel Reflections James Clifford

212
CHAP.15:

Why Museums Make Me Sad
James A. Boon

255
PART 4:

Festivals
Ivan Karp

279
CHAP.16:

The Politics of Participation in Folk-life Festivals
Richard Bauman And Patricia Sawin

288
CHAP.17:

Cultural Conservation through Represen tation: Festival of India Folk-life Exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution
Richard Kurin

315
CHAP.18:

The World as Marketplace: Commodification of the Exotic at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Curtis M. Hinsley

344
CHAP.19:

Festivals and Diplomacy
Ted M. G. Tanen

366
PART 5:

Other Cultures in Museum Perspective
Ivan Karp

373
CHAP.20:

Objects of Ethnography
Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

386
CHAP.21:

Refocusing or Reorientation? The Exhibit or the Populace: Zimbabwe on the Threshold
Dawson Munjeri

444
CHAP.22:

How Misleading Does an Ethnographical Museum Have to Be?
Kenneth Hudson

457


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