| The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture Contributor(s): MacDonald, Sharon (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0415153263 ISBN-13: 9780415153263 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $49.39 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1997 Annotation: "The Politics of Display" brings together studies of contemporary and historical museum shows and challenges the notion that these exhibitions are politically exempt. For example, what does it mean when the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima, is displayed? The contributors to this volume chart the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive and multimedia displays. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural history and medicine. Contributors include Steven W. Allison-Bunnell, Ken Arnold, Tony Bennett, Thomas F. Gieryn, Penelope Harvey, Sharon Macdonald and Tracy Lang Teslow. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Political Science - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 069.5 |
| LCCN: 97003319 |
| Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 6.1" W x 9.13" (1.12 lbs) 264 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. Rather, technologies of display and ideas about 'science' and 'objectivity' are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, racial and national difference. The display of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima is a well-known case in point. |