On the beaten track
Subtitle: tourism, art, and place
By: Lucy R. Lippard.
Publisher: New Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Tourism -- Social aspects; Historic sites; Tourism and art
Description: In Lucy Lippard's On the Beaten Track, essays on cultural criticism, anthropology, and community activism are interwoven to examine how tourism sites are conceived and represented, and how they affect the places they transform.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : on rubbernecking; title: The tourist at home; title: Trespassing on common ground : a case study; title: Surprise packages; title: Seduction and hyperbole; title: Santa Fe's tricultural trip; title: Crossroads everywhere : cultural tourism; title: Exhibitionism; title: Curiouser and curiouser; title: Tragic tourism; title: Parking places; title: Taken aback, or, the nostalgia trap.