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Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums Volume 6
Contributor(s): Phillips, Ruth B. (Author)
ISBN: 0773539069     ISBN-13: 9780773539068
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
OUR PRICE:   $43.65  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 2011
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
- Art | Native American
- Art | Museum Studies
Dewey: 305.897
Series: McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation Studies in Art History
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 7.4" W x 9.9" (2.10 lbs) 400 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Canadian
- Ethnic Orientation - Native American
 
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Publisher Description:
Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are indigenous not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on forty years of experience as an art historian, curator, exhibition critic, and museum director, she emphasizes the complex and situated nature of the problems that face museums, introducing new perspectives on controversial exhibitions and moments of contestation. A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transformative power of museum controversy and analyses shifting ideas about art, authenticity, and power in the modern museum.