Curating America

• Verfasst von: Rabinowitz, Richard [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Curating America
• Titelzusatz: journeys through storyscapes of the American past
• Verf.angabe: Richard Rabinowitz
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press
• E-Jahr: 2016
• Jahr: [2016]
• Umfang: 382 Seiten
• Illustrationen: Illustrationen
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-2950-6
• Schlagwörter: (g)USA / (s)Public History / (s)Museumspädagogik
• Sprache: eng
• RVK-Notation: NK 4600
• K10plus-PPN: 850397812

Abstract

Becoming a public historian. Discovering a calling ; No ideas but in things ; Twentieth-century minds dissecting nineteenth-century problems ; Other hands, other minds ; The elements of interpretation -- Finding ourselves : interpreting place. History, dislocated ; Envisioning place on gallery walls ; Museum visitors on center stage ; Museums without walls ; Visitors reinsert human presence into the landscape ; Storyscapes everywhere -- Beholding : interpreting stuff. The object of the object ; The object as evidence and experience ; The invention of the cluster -- Belonging : interpreting identity and community. The body politic in the museum ; History turns critical ; Taking the new social history public ; The community as curator ; Can the history museum fix it? -- Postscript -- A reader's reflections