Exhibiting Cultures by Ivan Karp

Exhibiting Cultures by Ivan Karp

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors--museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology--represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers.

Ivan Karp is a National Endowment for the Humanities Professor at Emory University and the Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture and Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display are two of his coedited books.Corinne A. Kratz is an Emory University professor of anthropology and African studies and the co-director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship. She is the author of The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in a Photography Exhibition.Lynn Szwaja is the Henry Luce Foundation's Program Director for Theology.Tomás Ybarra-Frausto was the Rockefeller Foundation's Associate Director for Innovation and Culture until his retirement in 2005. He received the Joseph Henry Medal for outstanding contributions to the Smithsonian Institution in 1998.

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ISBN 13	9781560980216
ISBN 10	1560980214
Title	Exhibiting Cultures
Author	Ivan Karp
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Smithsonian Books
Year published	1991-05-17
Number of pages	480
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