"The Politics of Display" brings together studies of contemporary and historical museum shows and challenges the notion that these exhibitions are politically exempt. For example, what does it mean when the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima, is displayed? The contributors to this volume chart the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive and multimedia displays. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural…mehr
"The Politics of Display" brings together studies of contemporary and historical museum shows and challenges the notion that these exhibitions are politically exempt. For example, what does it mean when the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima, is displayed? The contributors to this volume chart the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyzes the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive and multimedia displays. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural history and medicine. Contributors include Steven W. Allison-Bunnell, Ken Arnold, Tony Bennett, Thomas F. Gieryn, Penelope Harvey, Sharon Macdonald and Tracy Lang Teslow.
Sharon Macdonald is lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sheffield. She is author of Remaining Culture (1997), editor of Inside Identities (1993) and co-editor of Theorizing Museums (1996) and The Sociological Review.
Inhaltsangabe
Notes on contributors List of illustrations Preface - Sharon Macdonald 1. Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibitions: an introduction to the politics of display - Sharon Macdonald Sheffield University UK 2. Speaking to the eyes: museums legibility and the social order - Tony Bennett Griffith University Australia 3. The visibility of difference: nineteenth century French anthropological collections - Nelia Dias University of Lisbon Portugal 4. Reifying race: science and art in 'Races of Mankind' at the Field Museum of Natural History - Tracy Lang Teslow University of Chicago USA 5. Making nature 'real' again: natural history and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian - Steven W. Allison-Bunnell Discovery Online Channel 6. On interactivity: consumer citizens and culture - Andrew Barry Goldsmith's College London University UK 7. Supermarket science? Consumers and 'the public understanding of science' - Sharon Macdonald 8. Nations on Display: technology and culture in Expo '92 - Penny Harvey Manchester University UK 9. Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History - Mary Bouquet 10. Can science museums take history seriously? - Jim Bennett Museum of the History of Science Oxford 11. 'Birth and Breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute of Medical History - Ken Arnold Wellcome Trust 12. Balancing acts: science Enola Gay and history wars at the Smithsonian - Tom Gieryn Indiana University USA Afterword: From war to debate? - Sharon Macdonald
Notes on contributors List of illustrations Preface - Sharon Macdonald 1. Exhibitions of power and powers of exhibitions: an introduction to the politics of display - Sharon Macdonald Sheffield University UK 2. Speaking to the eyes: museums legibility and the social order - Tony Bennett Griffith University Australia 3. The visibility of difference: nineteenth century French anthropological collections - Nelia Dias University of Lisbon Portugal 4. Reifying race: science and art in 'Races of Mankind' at the Field Museum of Natural History - Tracy Lang Teslow University of Chicago USA 5. Making nature 'real' again: natural history and public rhetorics of science at the Smithsonian - Steven W. Allison-Bunnell Discovery Online Channel 6. On interactivity: consumer citizens and culture - Andrew Barry Goldsmith's College London University UK 7. Supermarket science? Consumers and 'the public understanding of science' - Sharon Macdonald 8. Nations on Display: technology and culture in Expo '92 - Penny Harvey Manchester University UK 9. Strangers in paradise: an encounter with fossil man at the Dutch Museum of Natural History - Mary Bouquet 10. Can science museums take history seriously? - Jim Bennett Museum of the History of Science Oxford 11. 'Birth and Breeding: politics on display at the Wellcome Institute of Medical History - Ken Arnold Wellcome Trust 12. Balancing acts: science Enola Gay and history wars at the Smithsonian - Tom Gieryn Indiana University USA Afterword: From war to debate? - Sharon Macdonald
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