In twelve essays on such diverse Smithsonian Institution holdings as the Hope Diamond, the Wright Flyer, wooden Zuni carvings, and the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth lunch counter that became a symbol of the Civil Rights movement, Exhibiting Dilemmas explores a wide range of social, political, and ethical questions faced by museum curators in their roles as custodians of culture. Focusing on the challenges posed by the transformation of exhibitions from object-driven "cabinets of curiosities" to idea-driven sources ...
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In twelve essays on such diverse Smithsonian Institution holdings as the Hope Diamond, the Wright Flyer, wooden Zuni carvings, and the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth lunch counter that became a symbol of the Civil Rights movement, Exhibiting Dilemmas explores a wide range of social, political, and ethical questions faced by museum curators in their roles as custodians of culture. Focusing on the challenges posed by the transformation of exhibitions from object-driven "cabinets of curiosities" to idea-driven sources of education and entertainment, the contributors--all Smithsonian staff members--provide a lively and sometimes provocative discussion of the increasingly complex enterprise of acquiring and displaying objects in a museum setting.
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Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. 23x15cm, vi, 285 pp., PAPERBACK. Contents: Exhibiting memories / Steven Lubar--For museum audiences: the morning of a new day? / William H. Truettner--The hope diamond: gem, jewel and icon / Richard Kurin--Herbert Ward's "ethnographic sculptures" of Africans / Mary Jo Arnoldi--Capable of flight: the saga of the 1903 Wright airplane / Tom D. Crouch--Crystal skulls and other problems, or, "don't look it in the eye" / Jane Maclaren Walsh--Curating the recent past: the Woolworth lunch counter, Greensboro, North Carolina / William Yeingst and Lonnie G. Bunch--The unstifled muse: the "All in the Family"exhibit and popular culture at the National Museum of American History / Ellen Roney Hughes. Zuni archangels and Ahayu: da: a sculpted chronicle of power and identity / William L. Merril and Richard A. Ahlborn--Ambassadors in sealskins: exhibiting Eskimos at the Smithsonian / William W. Fitzhugh--Curators as agents of change: an insect zoo for the Nineties / Sally Love--And now for something completely different: reconstructing Duke Ellington's Beggar's holiday for presentation in a museum setting / Dwight Blocker Bowers.
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