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    Museum politics : power plays at the exhibition / / Timothy W. Luke.
     
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    Author: 
    Luke, Timothy W.
    Title: 
    Museum politics : power plays at the exhibition / / Timothy W. Luke.
    Publisher: 
    Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
    Description: 
    xxvi, 265 p. ; 23 cm.
    Bibliography Note: 
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-258) and index.
    Contents: 
    Introduction : museum exhibitions as power plays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.
    Local Note: 
    MSRL copy 39088010308278 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993.
    Subject: 
    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.
    Catalog Source No.: 
    (OCoLC)ocm48588172
    ISBN: 
    0816619883 (HC : alk. paper)
    0816619891 (PB : alk. paper)
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    AM151 .L85 2002XMuseum Studies Research Library39088010308278Long Overdue03/30/2020Request Copy
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    AM151 .L85 2002XAmerican History, National Museum of39088009884032Checked In Request Copy
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