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Timothy W. LukePublication Details
BookUniversity of Minnesota Press2002Availability
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Through discussions of topics ranging from how the National Holocaust Museum and the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles have interpreted the Holocaust to the ways in which the American Museum of Natural History, the Missouri Botanical Gardens, and Tucson’s Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum have depicted the natural world, Luke exposes the processes through which museums challenge but more often affirm key cultural and social realities. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Introduction: Museum Exhibitions as Power Plays
- 1. Politics at the Exhibition: Aesthetics, History, and Nationality in the Culture Wars
- 2. Nuclear Reactions: The (Re)Presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum
- 3. Memorializing Mass Murder: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- 4. Signs of Empire/ Empires of Sign: Daimyo Culture in the District of Columbia
- 5. Inventing the Southwest: The Fred Harvey Company and Native American Art
- 6. Museum Pieces: Politics and Knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History
- 7. The Missouri Botanical Garden: Sharing Knowledge about Plants to Preserve and Enrich Life
- 8. Southwestern Environments as Hyperreality: The Arizona- Sonora Desert Museum
- 9. Superpower Aircraft and Aircrafting Superpower: The Pima Air and Space Museum
- 10. Strange Attractor: The Tech Museum of Innovation
- 11. 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
ISBN
- 0816619891
- 0816619883
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