The Politics of Display

The Politics of Display
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Publisher : Psychology Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 0415153263
ISBN-13 : 9780415153263
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Display by : Sharon Macdonald

Download or read book The Politics of Display written by Sharon Macdonald and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Met lit. opg. - Met reg. Exhibitions are never, and never have been, above politics. Rather, technologies of display and ideas about science and objectivity are mobilized to tell stories of progress, citizenship, racial and national difference. Description of the changing relationship between displays and their audience. It analyses the consequent shift in styles of representation towards interactive, multimedia and reflexive modes of display. Examples are taken from exhibitions of science, technology and industry, anthropology, geology, natural history and medicine, and locations include the United States of America, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, the Netherlands and Spain.


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