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Title

Mining the Museum: An Installation by Fred Wilson

Publisher

The New Press

Publication Date

1994

Language

English

ISBN 10

1565841085

ISBN 13

9781565841086

Binding

Hardcover

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Art Since 1945

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While it has become increasingly commonplace to speak of how history books omit the stories of people of color, rarely is the discussion broad enough to examine how these same omissions are replicated in institutions outside the academy. One such institution is the museum, particularly the history museum, which, much like a history book, is popularly perceived as a repository of truth. But as Mining the Museum, a book based on the award-winning collaboration between The Contemporary, The Maryland Historical Society, and installation artist Fred Wilson illustrates, museums are not neutral places.

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To demonstrate how museums ignore or misrepresent the cultural contributions and history of blacks and Native Americans, New York installation artist Fred Wilson recently "mined" the Maryland Historical Society's collection (with that institute's cooperation) to create a powerful exhibit. His startling juxtapositions, recreated in this remarkable catalogue, include a Ku Klux Klan hood nestled in a turn-of-the-century baby carriage and iron slave shackles alongside a fine silver tea set. Wilson, a conceptual artist of African American and Carib descent, has rearranged and labeled marble portrait busts, reward posters for runaway slaves, cigar-store Indians with backs turned to the viewer, doll houses and other artifacts. This highly provocative album argues for a more open, inclusive relationship between cultural institutions and the communities they serve. Corrin, co-curator of the "mock exhibit," provides an illuminating interpretive essay.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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