Notice catalographique « The politics of display : museums, science, culture »
- Titre
- The politics of display : museums, science, culture
- Auteur ou éditeur
- Macdonald, Sharon
- Lieu de publication
- London
- Maison d'édition
- Routledge
- Date de publication
- 1997
- Collation
- 246 p.
- Résumé
- The assumption that museum exhibitions, particularly those concerned with science and technology, are somehow neutral and impartial is today being challenged both in the public arena and in the academy. The Politics of Display brings together studies of contemporary and historical exhibitions and contends that exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. Rather, technologies of display and ideas about science and objectivity are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, racial and national difference. The display of the Enola Gay, the aircraft which dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, is a well-known case in point. The Politics of Display charts the changing relationship between displays and their audience and analyses the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive, multimedia and reflexive modes of display.
- Langue
- English = Anglais
- Sujet
- Museums - Exhibitions
- Science museums - Exhibitions
- Museum exhibits - Political aspects
- Musées - Expositions
- Sciences - Musées - Expositions
- ISBN/ISSN
- 0-415-15326-3
- Pays
- United Kingdom
- Type de document
- Monograph = Monographie
- Localisation
- AM 151 P65
- Clé
- 11738
- Collection
- Catalogue