Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991. Softcover. BW pictorial wraps; 468 pp.; Profusely illustrated with bw figures. VG (Minor wear to extremities of wraps; may have label & bookplate from previous art-library owner.). Item #118164
ISBN: 1560980214

Includes 27 essays by scholars and museum professionals about subjects such as the neglect of ethnographic museums in favor of museum expansion, how everyday life is used to make exhibitions understandable, what happens to minority and exotic arts when they are put into the context of the "great" museums, and much more.

Price: $20.00

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