ISBN:
0816619883
,
0816619891
Language:
English
Pages:
xxvi, 265 p
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
069/.5
Keywords:
Gesellschaft
;
Nationalismus
;
Politik
;
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
;
Politik
;
Political Correctness
;
Museum
;
Museumspolitik
;
Gesellschaft
;
Ausstellung
;
USA
;
USA
;
Museum
;
Ausstellung
;
Political Correctness
;
USA
;
Museum
;
Politik
;
USA
;
Museum
;
Gesellschaft
;
USA
;
Museumspolitik
Description / Table of Contents:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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