Museums and Communities
The Politics of Public Culture
4th Edition
Published on 17. May 1992
Book
Paperback/Softback
624 pages
978-1-56098-189-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Edition
4th edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 232 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
1016 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56098-189-3 (9781560981893)
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Ivan Karp | Christine Mullen Kreamer | Steven Levine
Museums and Communities
The Politics of Public Culture
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09/2013
1st Edition
Smithsonian Books
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Persons
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.
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.