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Museum politics power plays at the exhibition /

Main Author: Luke, Timothy W.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2002.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10151093
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505 0 |a 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. 
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