On display
Subtitle: visual politics, material culture, and education
By: Karin Priem and Kerstin te Heesen (Eds.).
Contributors: Université de Luxembourg
Series: Visuelle Kultur, Studien und Materialien -- Band 11; Visuelle Kultur, Studien und Materialien -- Bd. 11.
Publisher: Waxmann
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Münster; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9783830934691
Subjects: Museum exhibits; Political aspects; Social aspects; Photography; Visual perception; Art; Family of man (1955)
Other titles: Visual polictics, material culture and public education.
Description: "This book focuses on one of the most successful photography exhibitions in history, The Family of Man. With The Family of Man as its reference point, this collection of essays takes a closer look at visual and material objects. It examines their relevance for educational issues and exhibition designs. We understand these issues in their broadest sense to encompass processes of citizenship and identity formation and the adoption and/or preservation of ethical and political values with effects that range from the micro to the macro, from the national to the international level. The overall hypothesis of this volume is that images, objects and designs were created and employed as performers and performances that interacted with and attracted mass audiences. This book not only looks at how the presentational, representational and social power of images, objects and designs was deliberately used by political and cultural stakeholders during the mid-1950s, but also how these technologies of display travelled through time and space and, as historical objects, interacted-and continue to interact-with new contexts and audiences"--Back cover.
Notes: "The chapters of this book were first presented and discussed at a conference on "Visual Polictics, Material Culture and Public Education" at the University of Luxembourg in June 2011"

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: On display :; title: Visual politics, material culture and education  -- Karin Priem and Kerstin te Heesen -- I :; title: Learning how to see and to act :; title: Visual concepts and material manifestations.; title: Icon, allegory, catastrophe :; title: Three modes of articulation within 21st century public culture  -- Robert Hariman ;; title: Displaying things :; title: Perspectives from cultural anthropology  -- Gudrun M. König ;; title: Facts for babies :; title: Visual experiments at the intersection of art, science, and consumerism in education  -- Karin Priem ;; title: On "casseroles" and cobblestones :; title: Approaches to the material culture of public protest  -- Jan C. Watzlawik ;; title: The family of man on the road to Clervaux :; title: From temporary American installation to permanent site of world memory  -- Eric J. Sandeen ;; title: From the Madonna lactans to the family of man :; title: Tracing a visual frame of reference through history  -- Kerstin te Heesen -- II :; title: Missions accessible to all :; title: The politics of display and the shaping of minds.; title: The politics of photography :; title: The family of man and the museum of modern art's war program  -- Kristen Gresh ;; title: Hot spots in the cold war :; title: Scripts, visual agendas, and relocated narratives in cold war photography  -- Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir -- III :; title: Heritage making and identity formation :; title: The nation on display.; title: Work in progress! :; title: Negotiating visual politics at the Centre national de l'audiovisuel in Luxembourg  -- Franc̦oise Poos ;; title: Dimensions of national heritage in the USA -- Brian I. Daniels.