Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture by Karp, Ivan

Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781560981893)

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Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture by Karp, Ivan

Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture

$37.95
Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture by Karp, Ivan

Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture

$37.95
Format: Paperback
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Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.

Author: Ivan Karp
ISBN-10: 156098189X
ISBN-13: 9781560981893
Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Language: English
Published: 05/17/1992
Pages: 624
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.86lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.14w x 1.30d
By Ivan Karp
By Ivan Karp
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Ivan Karp is National Endowment for the Humanities Professor of Liberal Arts at Emory University and director of the Center for the Study of Public Scholarship.

Christine Mullen Kreamer is an art historian working in Vietnam and an exhibit developer for the "African Voices" project at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.

Steven D. Lavine is the president of the California Institute of the Arts.

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