| On Display: New Essays in Cultural Studies Contributor(s): Smith, Anna (Editor), Wevers, Lydia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0864734549 ISBN-13: 9780864734549 Publisher: Victoria University Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2005 Annotation: A group of New Zealand's leading cultural studies scholars provide their perspectives on the politics of display in this thought-provoking collection of essays. Philip Armstrong, Roger Blackley, Kyla McFarlane, Annie Potts, and Paul Williams, among others, showcase their thinking about cultural activities--looking and showing, viewing and arranging--that are deeply embedded in ideology. From the antique plaster casts held by Auckland Museum to the wild foods on New Zealand's West Coast, the essays pursue a variety of trajectories on how New Zealanders display themselves and what they profess and contest in their collective representations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Techniques - Acrylic Painting - Art | Australian & Oceanian - Art | Art & Politics |
| Dewey: 306.099 |
| LCCN: 2004445747 |
| Physical Information: 248 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania |
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| Publisher Description: A group of New Zealand's leading cultural studies scholars provide their perspectives on the politics of display in this thought-provoking collection of essays. Philip Armstrong, Roger Blackley, Kyla McFarlane, Annie Potts, and Paul Williams, among others, showcase their thinking about cultural activities--looking and showing, viewing and arranging--that are deeply embedded in ideology. From the antique plaster casts held by Auckland Museum to the wild foods on New Zealand's West Coast, the essays pursue a variety of trajectories on how New Zealanders display themselves and what they profess and contest in their collective representations. |