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The Head of the King: Museums and the Path to Resistance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Edgar V. Winans
Edgar V. Winans
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University of Washington
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The museum has become disputed terrain in the closing years of the twentieth century. Not that there has been any unanimity of opinion about these institutions at any time in their history, but until relatively recently the disputes were often among insiders. These disputes were conducted within Western culture, within the professional world of specialists, and within a universe of agreed upon and accepted ideas about a viewing public and the objects they viewed. Karp and Lavine locate this debate and its dimensions succinctly: “whether to privilege context or object… aesthetics of objects or prepositional knowledge about them… [and] whether a curator's message… is more authentic than the provenance of the object itself” (1991:12)

Type
Exhibitionism
Information
Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , April 1994 , pp. 221 - 241
Copyright
Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1994

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