Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 156098189X ISBN 13: 9781560981893

Publisher: Smithsonian Books, 1992

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Ivan Karp is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Liberal Arts at Emory University and director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship.

Christine Mullen Kreamer is an art historian working in Vietnam and an exhibit developer for the “African Voices” project at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Steven D. Lavine is the president of the California Institute of the Arts.

Review:

“This companion volume to Exhibiting Cultures contains a series of essays that illustrate both the struggles and the collaborations between museums and the communities they aim to serve. . . . The range of voices heard to great effect in the preceding book continue to speak out here. Strongly recommended.”—Library Journal

“[The editors] present a rich variety of thought-provoking ideas about the condition and possibilities of museums. The book challenges museum specialists to reassess their practices to ensure the relevance of museums in a changing world and offers valuable case studies of the kinds of problems and successes involved in making such changes.”—Journal of American History

“With a variety of case studies and perspectives in the spirit of interdisciplinary study, Museums and Communities is a provocative and fascinating collection, at once profound and concrete.”—American Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Smithsonian Books
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 156098189X
• ISBN 13: 9781560981893
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 624
• Editor: Karp Ivan, Kreamer Christine Mullen, Levine Steven