Title: Displays of power
First published: 1999
Description: In the past, museums glorified wealth and validated authority. But today, pressure groups frequently mobilize either to force their own perspective upon museum walls, or to prevent opposing opinions from being expressed. Exhibition controversies are similar to "tagged genes": They are markers for critical conditions, but not the cause of them.

In Displays of Power, Steven C. Dubin examines the most controversial exhibitions of the 1990s. These include shows about ethnicity, slavery, Freud, the Old West, and the dropping of the atomic bomb by the Enola Gay. Some of these exhibitions challenged standard narratives, while others were faulted for failing to do so.

Drawing directly upon interviews with many key combatants: museum administrators, community activists, curators, and scholars, Displays of Power authoritatively analyzes these episodes of America struggling to redefine itself in the late twentieth century.
Subjects: Cultural policy, Popular culture, Political correctness, Museum techniques, Political aspects of Museum exhibits, Culture conflict, Museum exhibits, Political aspects of Popular culture, Political aspects, Museologie, Objets exposes, Politique et culture, Conflit culturel, Museum, Museus, Politique culturelle, Museografia, Politica cultural, Culture populaire, Aspect politique, Cultura popular, Exposicʹoes museologicas (aspectos politicos), Kontroverse, Politiquement correct (Mouvement), Museums, united states, Art, exhibitions, Museums, United states, cultural policy, Exposições museológicas (aspectos políticos), Política cultural, Muséologie, Objets exposés, Museum exhibits--political aspects, Museum exhibits--political aspects--united states, Museum techniques--united states, Culture conflict--united states, Popular culture--political aspects, Popular culture--political aspects--united states, Political correctness--united states, Am151 .d84 1999, 069/.5
Places: United States
LC classification: AM151 .D84 1999