"Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors'museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology'represent a variety of stances on the role of museums and their function as intermediaries between the makers of art or artifacts and the eventual viewers. From the Trade Paperback edition."
"Based on papers presented at a conference entitled 'Poetics and Politics of Representation, ' held at the International Center of Smithsonian Institution, Sept. 26-28, 1988; sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and other institutions."
"Offers information from the conference entitled "Poetics and politics of representation" on setting up museum displays."

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"Exhibiting cultures the poetics and politics of museum display"
"Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display ; [essays first presented at the Conference "The Poetics and Politics of Representation", held at the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution 26-28 September 1988]"
"Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display"
"Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display"@en
"Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display ; [essays ... first presented at a conference entitled The Poetics and Politics of Representation, held at the International Center of the Smithsonian Institution 26 - 28 September 1988]"
"Exhibiting Cultures The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display"@en
"Exhibiting cultures : the poetics and politics of museum display ; based on papers presented at a conference entitled 'Poetics and Politics of Representation', held at the Internat. Center of Smithsonian Inst., Sept. 26-28, 1988"
"Exhibiting Cultures : the Poetics and Politics of Museum Display"