num_pages: 480
description: 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.
language: English
title: Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
titlecomplete: Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
genres: History, School, Anthropology, Science, Museums, Art History, Cultural Studies, Museology, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 177
publisher: Smithsonian Books