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Ivan Karp

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Exhibiting Cultures
The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Written by Ivan Karp

Format: Trade Paperback, 480 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: May 17, 1991
Price: $24.95

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors–museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology–represent a variety of stances on the... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

Exhibiting Cultures
The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Written by Ivan Karp

Format: eBook, 480 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $24.95

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Also available as a trade paperback.

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Museums and Communities
The Politics of Public Culture
Edited by Ivan Karp, Christine Mullen Kreamer and Steven Levine

Format: Trade Paperback, 624 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
On Sale: May 17, 1992
Price: $28.95

Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.

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