Museum politics
Luke, Timothy W.
Museum politics power plays at the exhibition / [electronic resource] : Timothy W. Luke. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002. - xxvi, 265 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s -- 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.
Electronic books.
AM151 / .L85 2002eb
069/.5
Museum politics power plays at the exhibition / [electronic resource] : Timothy W. Luke. - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002. - xxvi, 265 p.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s -- 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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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.
Electronic books.
AM151 / .L85 2002eb
069/.5