Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum - Hardcover

Dubin, Steven C.

 
9780814718896: Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0814718892 ISBN 13: 9780814718896
Verlag: NYU Press - IPS, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

A study of the American cultural wars taking place in controversial museum exhibitions
Museums have become ground zero in America's culture wars. Whereas fierce public debates once centered on provocative work by upstart artists, the scrutiny has now expanded to mainstream cultural institutions and the ideas they present. In Displays of Power, Steven Dubin, whose Arresting Images was deemed "masterly" by the New York Times, examines the most controversial exhibitions of the 1990s. These include shows about ethnicity, slavery, Freud, the Old West, and the dropping of the atomic bomb by the Enola Gay. This new edition also includes a preface by the author detailing the recent Sensation! controversy at the Brooklyn Museum. Displays of Power draws directly upon interviews with many key combatants: museum administrators, community activists, curators, and scholars. It authoritatively analyzes these episodes of America struggling to redefine itself in the late 20th century.

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Steven C. Dubin's most recent book, Arresting Images, was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year (1992). He is the Director of the Media, Society, and the Arts Program at the State University of New York, Purchase.

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Verlag
NYU Press - IPS
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0814718892
ISBN 13 
9780814718896
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
340
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