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Overview
Passionate, witty, and erudite, these essays by a radical curator describe how museums approach their sometimes conflicting missions to sponsor scholarship, generate popular appeal, and claim social significance. This analysis includes discussions of art and ethnology, the failure of late-Modernist art history, the construction of official culture, the intellectual history of European exploration in the Pacific, problems with cultural studies of the Pakeha Maori, and the conservation of archives and narratives.
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- ISBN-13: 9780864735034
- ISBN-10: 0864735030
- Publisher: Victoria University Press
- Publish Date: April 2006
- Dimensions: 8.36 x 5.77 x 1.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.04 pounds
- Page Count: 368
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