TY  - BOOK
AU  - Luke,Timothy W.
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Museum politics: power plays at the exhibition 
AV  - AM151 .L85 2002eb
U1  - 069/.5 21
PY  - 2002///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Museum exhibits
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Popular culture
KW  - Culture conflict
KW  - Culture diffusion
KW  - Nationalism
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Political correctness
KW  - Social influence
KW  - Museums
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10151093
ER  -