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Luke, Timothy W.
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.
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Museum politics : power plays at the exhibition / / Timothy W. Luke.
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 2002X
Museum Studies Research Library
39088010308278
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03/30/2020
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