Museum politics
Subtitle: power plays at the exhibition
By: Timothy W. Luke.
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
Subjects: 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays; title: Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s; title: Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum; title: Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; title: Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia; title: Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art; title: Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History; title: The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life; title: Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum; title: Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum; title: Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation; title: Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum; title: Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.