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- catalog abstract "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, 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 curators and staff members - provide a lively and sometimes provocative discussion of the increasingly complex enterprise of acquiring and displaying objects in a museum setting. In showing how the exhibitions in America's national museum can evoke conflicting memories, emotions, and meaning among both curators and a diverse public, Exhibiting Dilemmas airs fundamental issues being confronted by museum professionals worldwide.".
- catalog alternative "Issues of representation at the Smithsonian".
- catalog contributor b9761656.
- catalog contributor b9761657.
- catalog contributor b9761658.
- catalog created "1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1997.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "In showing how the exhibitions in America's national museum can evoke conflicting memories, emotions, and meaning among both curators and a diverse public, Exhibiting Dilemmas airs fundamental issues being confronted by museum professionals worldwide.".
- catalog description "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, 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 curators and staff members - provide a lively and sometimes provocative discussion of the increasingly complex enterprise of acquiring and displaying objects in a museum setting.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "vi, 285 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1560986905 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Insitution Press,".
- catalog spatial "Washington (D.C.)".
- catalog subject "069/.09753 20".
- catalog subject "AM151 .A96 1996".
- catalog subject "Cultural property Protection.".
- catalog subject "Ethics.".
- catalog subject "Exhibitions Washington (D.C.)".
- catalog subject "Museum techniques.".
- catalog subject "Museums Administration.".
- catalog subject "Smithsonian Institution.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Exhibiting dilemmas : issues of representation at the Smithsonian / edited by Amy Henderson and Adrienne L. Kaeppler.".
- catalog title "Issues of representation at the Smithsonian".
- catalog type "text".