Jack Zipes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153384
- eISBN:
- 9781400841820
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153384.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory
Two major tendencies in fairy-tale re-creations and collisions have been observed in the past decades. The first tendency is called remaking and re-creating classic tales. The second tendency is ...
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Two major tendencies in fairy-tale re-creations and collisions have been observed in the past decades. The first tendency is called remaking and re-creating classic tales. The second tendency is referred to as conflicted mosaics, consists of paintings, sculptures, and photographs that draw on an assortment of fairy-tale fragments to evoke a sense of wonder, if not bafflement. This chapter explores the significance of the two tendencies in fairy-tale collisions with a focus on the recent 2012 exhibit Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, held at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. It also comments on the works of many other talented artists who have been experimenting with the fairy tale along the same lines.Less
Two major tendencies in fairy-tale re-creations and collisions have been observed in the past decades. The first tendency is called remaking and re-creating classic tales. The second tendency is referred to as conflicted mosaics, consists of paintings, sculptures, and photographs that draw on an assortment of fairy-tale fragments to evoke a sense of wonder, if not bafflement. This chapter explores the significance of the two tendencies in fairy-tale collisions with a focus on the recent 2012 exhibit Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, held at the Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee. It also comments on the works of many other talented artists who have been experimenting with the fairy tale along the same lines.
Susan K. Jacobson, Mallory D. McDuff, and Martha C. Monroe
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198567714
- eISBN:
- 9780191718311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567714.003.0007
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
Using the arts for conservation can help attract new audiences, increase understanding, introduce new perspectives, and create a dialogue among diverse people. The arts — painting, photography, ...
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Using the arts for conservation can help attract new audiences, increase understanding, introduce new perspectives, and create a dialogue among diverse people. The arts — painting, photography, literature, theatre, and music — offer an emotional connection to nature. This chapter provides examples of using the arts to inspire people to take action. Planning art activities requires reaching out to artists and the art community, audiences with whom scientists and educators may seldom interact. Conservation problems require creative solutions. It makes sense to access more ways of knowing the world in order to take care of it.Less
Using the arts for conservation can help attract new audiences, increase understanding, introduce new perspectives, and create a dialogue among diverse people. The arts — painting, photography, literature, theatre, and music — offer an emotional connection to nature. This chapter provides examples of using the arts to inspire people to take action. Planning art activities requires reaching out to artists and the art community, audiences with whom scientists and educators may seldom interact. Conservation problems require creative solutions. It makes sense to access more ways of knowing the world in order to take care of it.
Susan K. Jacobson, Mallory D. McDuff, and Martha C. Monroe
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780198567714
- eISBN:
- 9780191718311
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198567714.003.0013
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
On-site activities can enhance first-hand experiences with natural areas by orienting, informing, and stimulating visitors. The development of on-site activities considers the visitor experience, ...
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On-site activities can enhance first-hand experiences with natural areas by orienting, informing, and stimulating visitors. The development of on-site activities considers the visitor experience, resources of the site, and education and outreach objectives of the organization. An initial planning process at a site paves the way for developing trails, exhibits, demonstrations, nature awareness activities, and visitor centers. Guidelines provided in this chapter for implementing and evaluating these techniques help ensure achievement of conservation and education goals.Less
On-site activities can enhance first-hand experiences with natural areas by orienting, informing, and stimulating visitors. The development of on-site activities considers the visitor experience, resources of the site, and education and outreach objectives of the organization. An initial planning process at a site paves the way for developing trails, exhibits, demonstrations, nature awareness activities, and visitor centers. Guidelines provided in this chapter for implementing and evaluating these techniques help ensure achievement of conservation and education goals.
Jennifer Beineke and Lowell Beineke
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691164038
- eISBN:
- 9781400881338
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691164038.003.0004
- Subject:
- Mathematics, History of Mathematics
This chapter explores some objects in which graphs have a role, some explicit, some not obvious. These graphical objects are presented as mathematical exhibits at a museum. The chapter starts with ...
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This chapter explores some objects in which graphs have a role, some explicit, some not obvious. These graphical objects are presented as mathematical exhibits at a museum. The chapter starts with the Amazing Asteroid, following this with a theorem (Bernstein's Bijection), a couple of games (Chromatic Combat and Devious Dice), an episode of Eluding Execution, a coin-tossing game (Flipping Fun), and an African adventure game (Get the Giraffe). Versions of these explorations have all been successfully used with students at various levels—whether in the classroom, for Math Club, or for independent investigation—but they can be appreciated by wider audiences too. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of how one of the topics in particular is contributing to successful research experiences for undergraduates.Less
This chapter explores some objects in which graphs have a role, some explicit, some not obvious. These graphical objects are presented as mathematical exhibits at a museum. The chapter starts with the Amazing Asteroid, following this with a theorem (Bernstein's Bijection), a couple of games (Chromatic Combat and Devious Dice), an episode of Eluding Execution, a coin-tossing game (Flipping Fun), and an African adventure game (Get the Giraffe). Versions of these explorations have all been successfully used with students at various levels—whether in the classroom, for Math Club, or for independent investigation—but they can be appreciated by wider audiences too. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of how one of the topics in particular is contributing to successful research experiences for undergraduates.
Giovanna Ceserani
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199744275
- eISBN:
- 9780199932139
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199744275.003.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, American History: pre-Columbian BCE to 500CE
This introductory chapter delineates the longstanding marginality of Magna Graecia within classical studies in contrast to its important role in the histories of antiquarianism and classical ...
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This introductory chapter delineates the longstanding marginality of Magna Graecia within classical studies in contrast to its important role in the histories of antiquarianism and classical archaeology, as well as the relationship between the study of Magna Graecia and the emergence of the Southern Question. The approach taken in this book is discussed in the context of recent works on history of archaeology and on the imagining of the South. A brief survey of the debate over the name of Magna Graecia introduces the intricate history of this region's study, including the differentiation of Sicily and Magna Graecia; prominent contrasts between Italian and non-Italian scholarly approache. A consideration of recent exhibitions dedicated to Greek South Italy, both in Italy and in the United States, introduces the current status of these issues, and offers a point of departure for returning to the rich history of the study of Magna Graecia.Less
This introductory chapter delineates the longstanding marginality of Magna Graecia within classical studies in contrast to its important role in the histories of antiquarianism and classical archaeology, as well as the relationship between the study of Magna Graecia and the emergence of the Southern Question. The approach taken in this book is discussed in the context of recent works on history of archaeology and on the imagining of the South. A brief survey of the debate over the name of Magna Graecia introduces the intricate history of this region's study, including the differentiation of Sicily and Magna Graecia; prominent contrasts between Italian and non-Italian scholarly approache. A consideration of recent exhibitions dedicated to Greek South Italy, both in Italy and in the United States, introduces the current status of these issues, and offers a point of departure for returning to the rich history of the study of Magna Graecia.
Sarita Echavez See
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479842667
- eISBN:
- 9781479887699
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479842667.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This book takes Karl Marx’s concept of “primitive accumulation,” usually conceived of as an economic process for the acquisition of land and the extraction of labor, and argues that we also must ...
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This book takes Karl Marx’s concept of “primitive accumulation,” usually conceived of as an economic process for the acquisition of land and the extraction of labor, and argues that we also must understand it as a project of knowledge accumulation. The material collection and display of things associated with racially backward or so-called primitive peoples form the epistemological foundation of American knowledge production, which should more accurately be called knowledge acquisition or extraction. Nowhere can we appreciate so easily the intertwined nature of the triple forces of knowledge accumulation—capital, colonial, and racial—than in the imperial museum, where the objects of accumulation remain materially, visibly preserved. The Philippine exhibit in the American museum serves as an allegory and a “real” case of the primitive accumulation subtending imperial American knowledge just as the extraction of Filipino labor contributes to American capitalist colonialism. With this understanding of the Filipino foundations of the development of an American accumulative drive toward power/knowledge, this book then turns to Filipino American cultural producers like Carlos Bulosan, Ma-Yi Theater Company, and Stephanie Syjuco, who have created powerful parodies of an accumulative epistemology that has been naturalized in different sites and spaces (the museum, the art gallery, and the agribusiness farm) even as they also have proposed powerful alternative, anti-accumulative social ecologies.Less
This book takes Karl Marx’s concept of “primitive accumulation,” usually conceived of as an economic process for the acquisition of land and the extraction of labor, and argues that we also must understand it as a project of knowledge accumulation. The material collection and display of things associated with racially backward or so-called primitive peoples form the epistemological foundation of American knowledge production, which should more accurately be called knowledge acquisition or extraction. Nowhere can we appreciate so easily the intertwined nature of the triple forces of knowledge accumulation—capital, colonial, and racial—than in the imperial museum, where the objects of accumulation remain materially, visibly preserved. The Philippine exhibit in the American museum serves as an allegory and a “real” case of the primitive accumulation subtending imperial American knowledge just as the extraction of Filipino labor contributes to American capitalist colonialism. With this understanding of the Filipino foundations of the development of an American accumulative drive toward power/knowledge, this book then turns to Filipino American cultural producers like Carlos Bulosan, Ma-Yi Theater Company, and Stephanie Syjuco, who have created powerful parodies of an accumulative epistemology that has been naturalized in different sites and spaces (the museum, the art gallery, and the agribusiness farm) even as they also have proposed powerful alternative, anti-accumulative social ecologies.
Andrew T. Snider and Elizabeth Arbaugh
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520235922
- eISBN:
- 9780520929432
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520235922.003.0050
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Biology
The history of amphibians at the Detroit Zoo dates back to 1960, when The Holden Museum of Living Reptiles opened to the public. Amphibian breeding efforts first occurred in 1970, when production and ...
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The history of amphibians at the Detroit Zoo dates back to 1960, when The Holden Museum of Living Reptiles opened to the public. Amphibian breeding efforts first occurred in 1970, when production and rearing of clutches of axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) commenced. In 1990, to acknowledge that amphibians were also included in the building, the facility's name was officially changed to The Holden Museum of Living Reptiles and Amphibians. Since 1994, the Detroit Zoological Institute has intensified its commitment to amphibian husbandry and conservation. In light of the global decline in amphibian populations, the need for a national conservation center for amphibians became more urgent and an idea was born: The National Amphibian Conservation Center (NACC). The NACC is the first major conservation facility dedicated entirely to conserving and exhibiting amphibians. It holds exhibits that define and describe amphibians, metamorphosis, amphibian evolution and diversity, aspects of amphibian ecology, and conservation biology. The Orientation Theater, a circular room with multimedia capabilities, is open to the public, school groups, and other organizations.Less
The history of amphibians at the Detroit Zoo dates back to 1960, when The Holden Museum of Living Reptiles opened to the public. Amphibian breeding efforts first occurred in 1970, when production and rearing of clutches of axolotls (Ambystoma mexicanum) commenced. In 1990, to acknowledge that amphibians were also included in the building, the facility's name was officially changed to The Holden Museum of Living Reptiles and Amphibians. Since 1994, the Detroit Zoological Institute has intensified its commitment to amphibian husbandry and conservation. In light of the global decline in amphibian populations, the need for a national conservation center for amphibians became more urgent and an idea was born: The National Amphibian Conservation Center (NACC). The NACC is the first major conservation facility dedicated entirely to conserving and exhibiting amphibians. It holds exhibits that define and describe amphibians, metamorphosis, amphibian evolution and diversity, aspects of amphibian ecology, and conservation biology. The Orientation Theater, a circular room with multimedia capabilities, is open to the public, school groups, and other organizations.
Judy Diamond and Patrick Kociolek
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199730421
- eISBN:
- 9780199949557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730421.003.0016
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
Of any public institution, natural history museums have the most extensive intellectual and physical resources for teaching the public about evolution. This chapter traces how evolution exhibits in ...
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Of any public institution, natural history museums have the most extensive intellectual and physical resources for teaching the public about evolution. This chapter traces how evolution exhibits in natural history museums have changed over the past century from displays based on collections of biological diversity to experiential teaching units that focus on processes and mechanisms of evolution that are based on contemporary research findings. To assess how well these efforts help people understand evolution will require a significant commitment to experimentally-based learning research to determine how to create meaningful educational change through the experience of visiting exhibits.Less
Of any public institution, natural history museums have the most extensive intellectual and physical resources for teaching the public about evolution. This chapter traces how evolution exhibits in natural history museums have changed over the past century from displays based on collections of biological diversity to experiential teaching units that focus on processes and mechanisms of evolution that are based on contemporary research findings. To assess how well these efforts help people understand evolution will require a significant commitment to experimentally-based learning research to determine how to create meaningful educational change through the experience of visiting exhibits.
Judy Diamond, E. Margaret Evans, and Amy N. Spiegel
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199730421
- eISBN:
- 9780199949557
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199730421.003.0017
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Cognitive Psychology
This chapter describes Explore Evolution, an influential exhibit developed for university museums in Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas with support from the National Science Foundation. ...
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This chapter describes Explore Evolution, an influential exhibit developed for university museums in Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas with support from the National Science Foundation. Researchers intensively studied the exhibit’s impacts on visitor reasoning about evolution, and they gained new insight into how exhibits can influence visitor understanding of complex ideas. The research uncovered a significant finding: a single visit to the Explore Evolution exhibit improved visitors' ability to explain evolutionary problems. This significant, if incremental, change was seen across the participants, regardless of age, differing religious beliefs or prior knowledge. Moreover, visitors realized that evolution occurred regardless of the nature of the organism. Explore Evolution’s inclusion of diverse organisms helped visitors recognize that evolution occurs in all living things.Less
This chapter describes Explore Evolution, an influential exhibit developed for university museums in Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas with support from the National Science Foundation. Researchers intensively studied the exhibit’s impacts on visitor reasoning about evolution, and they gained new insight into how exhibits can influence visitor understanding of complex ideas. The research uncovered a significant finding: a single visit to the Explore Evolution exhibit improved visitors' ability to explain evolutionary problems. This significant, if incremental, change was seen across the participants, regardless of age, differing religious beliefs or prior knowledge. Moreover, visitors realized that evolution occurred regardless of the nature of the organism. Explore Evolution’s inclusion of diverse organisms helped visitors recognize that evolution occurs in all living things.
Mary Miller
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780195174991
- eISBN:
- 9780197562239
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780195174991.003.0050
- Subject:
- Computer Science, History of Computer Science
Science writers at a museum, zoo, or aquarium are in a powerful position. We provide the first line of information that visitors receive about the place. ...
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Science writers at a museum, zoo, or aquarium are in a powerful position. We provide the first line of information that visitors receive about the place. The reading public comes eager to be inspired or entertained and maybe learn something about science and nature in the process. One of the most important jobs for a museum science writer is producing the text that accompanies exhibits. Exhibit writing was once the province of scientists or specialist curators, who felt no guilt about putting up dense technical prose for the visitor to either plod through or ignore. As long as the label didn't misidentify a dinosaur or a physical law of nature, all was well. Thankfully, the last 20 years have seen an evolution in museum exhibit writing. Curators and museum directors began to take pity on the visitor and started hiring professional writers to make the museum experience less mystifying. Museum developers have become aware they are not talking to themselves, but to an audience that might need some help understanding the physics exhibit, stuffed animal, or strange deep-sea jellyfish swimming in front of their eyes. It can be a challenge, especially at a museum like the Exploratorium, where successful interactive exhibits must be both operated and understood by the visitor. Few writers have so many functions to serve in so few words. A title and a tag line might call on the kinds of skills an advertising copywriter has, pulling people in before they know what they're going to be doing. Then a set of instructions helps a visitor build, experience, or do something that may or may not “work.” After that, you get to be a narrative science writer, explaining what just happened and why, translating, for instance, from the point of view of a biologist, physicist, or exhibit builder. Next, you might turn into a social commentator or a science historian, connecting the experience to the real world or pointing out the exhibit's historical significance. All in no more than 100 words, shorter than this paragraph. It's a tough job, but it can be rewarding when all the pieces come together.
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Science writers at a museum, zoo, or aquarium are in a powerful position. We provide the first line of information that visitors receive about the place. The reading public comes eager to be inspired or entertained and maybe learn something about science and nature in the process. One of the most important jobs for a museum science writer is producing the text that accompanies exhibits. Exhibit writing was once the province of scientists or specialist curators, who felt no guilt about putting up dense technical prose for the visitor to either plod through or ignore. As long as the label didn't misidentify a dinosaur or a physical law of nature, all was well. Thankfully, the last 20 years have seen an evolution in museum exhibit writing. Curators and museum directors began to take pity on the visitor and started hiring professional writers to make the museum experience less mystifying. Museum developers have become aware they are not talking to themselves, but to an audience that might need some help understanding the physics exhibit, stuffed animal, or strange deep-sea jellyfish swimming in front of their eyes. It can be a challenge, especially at a museum like the Exploratorium, where successful interactive exhibits must be both operated and understood by the visitor. Few writers have so many functions to serve in so few words. A title and a tag line might call on the kinds of skills an advertising copywriter has, pulling people in before they know what they're going to be doing. Then a set of instructions helps a visitor build, experience, or do something that may or may not “work.” After that, you get to be a narrative science writer, explaining what just happened and why, translating, for instance, from the point of view of a biologist, physicist, or exhibit builder. Next, you might turn into a social commentator or a science historian, connecting the experience to the real world or pointing out the exhibit's historical significance. All in no more than 100 words, shorter than this paragraph. It's a tough job, but it can be rewarding when all the pieces come together.
Macarena Gómez-Barris
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520255838
- eISBN:
- 9780520942493
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520255838.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Latin American Cultural Anthropology
This chapter focuses on the representations and activities of those who fled Chile between 1973 and 1989 because of dictatorship repression and threats. Chileans fled to multiple destinations, ...
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This chapter focuses on the representations and activities of those who fled Chile between 1973 and 1989 because of dictatorship repression and threats. Chileans fled to multiple destinations, including other Latin American nations, such as Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, and especially Mexico, which took in thousands of political exiles. Other nations also accepted them, including Canada, Spain, France, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and, to a lesser degree, the United States. The structure of understanding and identifying with exiles contributes to important work in the social world, particularly through cultural memory, even though compulsory exile from Chile ended in 1990. The chapter analyzes an early documentary by Marilú Mallet entitled Journal inachevé (Unfinished Diary, 1987) and Patricio Guzmán's The Pinochet Case (2001), both exemplary of the condition, perspective, and interactions of exiles. Within the historical context of peñas (events by cultural centers), it also discusses an art exhibit and project on the politics of memory titled “Two 9/11s in a Lifetime,” an effort organized by a group of Chilean exiles in San Francisco.Less
This chapter focuses on the representations and activities of those who fled Chile between 1973 and 1989 because of dictatorship repression and threats. Chileans fled to multiple destinations, including other Latin American nations, such as Brazil, Venezuela, Cuba, and especially Mexico, which took in thousands of political exiles. Other nations also accepted them, including Canada, Spain, France, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, and, to a lesser degree, the United States. The structure of understanding and identifying with exiles contributes to important work in the social world, particularly through cultural memory, even though compulsory exile from Chile ended in 1990. The chapter analyzes an early documentary by Marilú Mallet entitled Journal inachevé (Unfinished Diary, 1987) and Patricio Guzmán's The Pinochet Case (2001), both exemplary of the condition, perspective, and interactions of exiles. Within the historical context of peñas (events by cultural centers), it also discusses an art exhibit and project on the politics of memory titled “Two 9/11s in a Lifetime,” an effort organized by a group of Chilean exiles in San Francisco.
Michael C. Hawkins
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501748219
- eISBN:
- 9781501748233
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501748219.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This book offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. The book examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine exhibit ...
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This book offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. The book examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked historical episode. By reviving and contextualizing Moro participation in the exposition, the book challenges the typical manifestations of empire drawn from the fair and delivers a nuanced and textured vision of the nature of American imperial discourse. The book argues that the Moro display provided a distinctive liminal space in the dialectical relationship between civilization and savagery at the fair. The Moros offered a transcultural bridge. Through their official yet nondescript designation as “semi-civilized,” they undermined and mediated the various binaries structuring the exposition. As the book demonstrates, this mediation represented an unexpectedly welcomed challenge to the binary logic and discomfort of the display. As the book shows, the Moro display was collaborative, and the Moros exercised unexpected agency by negotiating how the display was both structured and interpreted by the public. Fairgoers were actively seeking an extraordinary experience. Exhibit organizers framed it, but ultimately the Moros provided it. And therein lay a tremendous amount of power.Less
This book offers a concise, revealing, and analytically penetrating view of a critical period in Philippine history. The book examines Moro (Filipino Muslim) contributions to the Philippine exhibit at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904, providing insight into this fascinating and previously overlooked historical episode. By reviving and contextualizing Moro participation in the exposition, the book challenges the typical manifestations of empire drawn from the fair and delivers a nuanced and textured vision of the nature of American imperial discourse. The book argues that the Moro display provided a distinctive liminal space in the dialectical relationship between civilization and savagery at the fair. The Moros offered a transcultural bridge. Through their official yet nondescript designation as “semi-civilized,” they undermined and mediated the various binaries structuring the exposition. As the book demonstrates, this mediation represented an unexpectedly welcomed challenge to the binary logic and discomfort of the display. As the book shows, the Moro display was collaborative, and the Moros exercised unexpected agency by negotiating how the display was both structured and interpreted by the public. Fairgoers were actively seeking an extraordinary experience. Exhibit organizers framed it, but ultimately the Moros provided it. And therein lay a tremendous amount of power.
Katelyn E. Knox
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781781383094
- eISBN:
- 9781781384152
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781383094.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
The book’s introduction analyzes Brett Bailey’s touring performance art piece entitled ‘Exhibit B’ (2013−15) and the controversies it generated in European cities to introduce the book’s larger ...
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The book’s introduction analyzes Brett Bailey’s touring performance art piece entitled ‘Exhibit B’ (2013−15) and the controversies it generated in European cities to introduce the book’s larger theoretical framework on the intersection between race, the gaze, and display. It defines the book’s central notion of ‘institutionalized spectacularism’ and outlines four arenas in which this ‘culture of looking’ manifests itself in contemporary France: historical, socio-political, cultural, and disciplinary. Far from hermetic and completely independent, these different iterations of institutionalized spectacularsim constantly inform one another. What unites them are common gazing dynamics: racial and ethnic alterity is approached as an object on display, while the underlying structures legitimizing the spectator’s gaze evades inquiry. Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France, then, like the works it studies, suggests that to combat racist stereotypes that persist in the postcolonial moment requires exposing and subsequently interrogating the ways of looking underpinning them.Less
The book’s introduction analyzes Brett Bailey’s touring performance art piece entitled ‘Exhibit B’ (2013−15) and the controversies it generated in European cities to introduce the book’s larger theoretical framework on the intersection between race, the gaze, and display. It defines the book’s central notion of ‘institutionalized spectacularism’ and outlines four arenas in which this ‘culture of looking’ manifests itself in contemporary France: historical, socio-political, cultural, and disciplinary. Far from hermetic and completely independent, these different iterations of institutionalized spectacularsim constantly inform one another. What unites them are common gazing dynamics: racial and ethnic alterity is approached as an object on display, while the underlying structures legitimizing the spectator’s gaze evades inquiry. Race on Display in 20th- and 21st-Century France, then, like the works it studies, suggests that to combat racist stereotypes that persist in the postcolonial moment requires exposing and subsequently interrogating the ways of looking underpinning them.
Mark P. Leone
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520244504
- eISBN:
- 9780520931893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520244504.003.0006
- Subject:
- Anthropology, American and Canadian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter studies the author's efforts to connect the past with the present using archaeology. It first studies the Marxist thoughts of Georg Lukács and Louis Althusser, explaining how the author ...
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This chapter studies the author's efforts to connect the past with the present using archaeology. It first studies the Marxist thoughts of Georg Lukács and Louis Althusser, explaining how the author was able to combine their ideas, then showing how the author created more awareness toward ideology. The chapter also takes a look at the ceramics and toothbrush exhibits, as well as Archaeological Annapolis, and ends with a discussion of Jürgen Habermas's notion of the “lifeworld.”Less
This chapter studies the author's efforts to connect the past with the present using archaeology. It first studies the Marxist thoughts of Georg Lukács and Louis Althusser, explaining how the author was able to combine their ideas, then showing how the author created more awareness toward ideology. The chapter also takes a look at the ceramics and toothbrush exhibits, as well as Archaeological Annapolis, and ends with a discussion of Jürgen Habermas's notion of the “lifeworld.”
Jill Fields
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520223691
- eISBN:
- 9780520941137
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520223691.003.0009
- Subject:
- History, American History: 20th Century
This chapter focuses on the changes in intimate apparel from the 1960s until present times. It analyzes the various feminist works of art that represent undergarments, and notes that some exhibited ...
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This chapter focuses on the changes in intimate apparel from the 1960s until present times. It analyzes the various feminist works of art that represent undergarments, and notes that some exhibited works like the Bra vs. Bra illustrate the wide range of uses and definitions of intimate apparel. These works also raise interesting and challenging questions on cultural representation, power, and gender, and comment and document the more recent undergarment styles. The discussion shows that artists who include intimate apparel and use it to provide alternative or even oppositional views of femininity and its expression by the female body can give further evidence on the significant and lasting symbolic power of intimate apparel artifacts, texts, and representations within American culture.Less
This chapter focuses on the changes in intimate apparel from the 1960s until present times. It analyzes the various feminist works of art that represent undergarments, and notes that some exhibited works like the Bra vs. Bra illustrate the wide range of uses and definitions of intimate apparel. These works also raise interesting and challenging questions on cultural representation, power, and gender, and comment and document the more recent undergarment styles. The discussion shows that artists who include intimate apparel and use it to provide alternative or even oppositional views of femininity and its expression by the female body can give further evidence on the significant and lasting symbolic power of intimate apparel artifacts, texts, and representations within American culture.
Mark Thornton Burnett and Adrian Streete
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748635238
- eISBN:
- 9780748652297
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748635238.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Shakespeare Studies
This reference work explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to cultural processes that take in publishing, exhibiting, performing, reconstructing, and disseminating. The thirty commissioned ...
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This reference work explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to cultural processes that take in publishing, exhibiting, performing, reconstructing, and disseminating. The thirty commissioned chapters are divided into six sections: Shakespeare and the Book; Shakespeare and Music; Shakespeare on Stage and in Performance; Shakespeare and Youth Culture; Shakespeare, Visual and Material Culture; and Shakespeare, Media and Culture. Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection. The book addresses Shakespeare in terms of a global frame of reference and responds to a growing critical and pedagogical interest in the relations between Shakespeare, the arts, film, performance, and mass media more generally.Less
This reference work explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to cultural processes that take in publishing, exhibiting, performing, reconstructing, and disseminating. The thirty commissioned chapters are divided into six sections: Shakespeare and the Book; Shakespeare and Music; Shakespeare on Stage and in Performance; Shakespeare and Youth Culture; Shakespeare, Visual and Material Culture; and Shakespeare, Media and Culture. Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection. The book addresses Shakespeare in terms of a global frame of reference and responds to a growing critical and pedagogical interest in the relations between Shakespeare, the arts, film, performance, and mass media more generally.
Michael C. Hawkins
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501748219
- eISBN:
- 9781501748233
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501748219.003.0044
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This concluding chapter assesses how, despite the unprecedented investment in colonial exhibition and advertisement, many felt that the Philippine Village was “a serious political failure.” Although ...
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This concluding chapter assesses how, despite the unprecedented investment in colonial exhibition and advertisement, many felt that the Philippine Village was “a serious political failure.” Although this may have been the case for the Philippine exhibit generally, it was certainly not the case for the Moros. Rather than “surrendering” to the “inherited Fair tropes,” the Moros appealed to them, inhabited them, appropriated and reappropriated them, and substantially influenced the ways in which these tropes were represented and interpreted. Hence, although the Philippine exhibit may have failed to meet expectations, the Moro Village largely exceeded them. The Moro exhibit proved quite profitable financially as well, and the Moros achieved significant recognition in the form of formal awards and medals. Although the success or failure of the exhibit can be debated, the exposition of these Moros was unquestionably overshadowed by a darkly poignant supposition of inevitable demise. The very act of curating the live exhibit set in motion a process which can be referred to as performative extinction.Less
This concluding chapter assesses how, despite the unprecedented investment in colonial exhibition and advertisement, many felt that the Philippine Village was “a serious political failure.” Although this may have been the case for the Philippine exhibit generally, it was certainly not the case for the Moros. Rather than “surrendering” to the “inherited Fair tropes,” the Moros appealed to them, inhabited them, appropriated and reappropriated them, and substantially influenced the ways in which these tropes were represented and interpreted. Hence, although the Philippine exhibit may have failed to meet expectations, the Moro Village largely exceeded them. The Moro exhibit proved quite profitable financially as well, and the Moros achieved significant recognition in the form of formal awards and medals. Although the success or failure of the exhibit can be debated, the exposition of these Moros was unquestionably overshadowed by a darkly poignant supposition of inevitable demise. The very act of curating the live exhibit set in motion a process which can be referred to as performative extinction.
Sarita Echavez See
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479842667
- eISBN:
- 9781479887699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479842667.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
The Philippine exhibit and archive at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History forward the colonial project by taking the colonized as objects of accumulation that then can be studied in ...
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The Philippine exhibit and archive at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History forward the colonial project by taking the colonized as objects of accumulation that then can be studied in disciplines like anthropology and archaeology and exhibited as a means of educating and improving the general public. Less
The Philippine exhibit and archive at the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History forward the colonial project by taking the colonized as objects of accumulation that then can be studied in disciplines like anthropology and archaeology and exhibited as a means of educating and improving the general public.
Sarita Echavez See
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479842667
- eISBN:
- 9781479887699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479842667.003.0003
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter introduces the concept of progressivist imperialism through the figure of Frank Murphy, the mayor of Detroit during the Great Depression and then the last American governor-general of ...
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This chapter introduces the concept of progressivist imperialism through the figure of Frank Murphy, the mayor of Detroit during the Great Depression and then the last American governor-general of the Philippines, who transposed his earlier work on the New Deal into the Philippine colonial context. This chapter focuses on his and his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan’s accumulation of Philippine souvenirs and tribute collected in the family’s house-turned-museum, and it also examines Filipino responses to American progressivist colonial governance. Less
This chapter introduces the concept of progressivist imperialism through the figure of Frank Murphy, the mayor of Detroit during the Great Depression and then the last American governor-general of the Philippines, who transposed his earlier work on the New Deal into the Philippine colonial context. This chapter focuses on his and his sister Marguerite Murphy Teahan’s accumulation of Philippine souvenirs and tribute collected in the family’s house-turned-museum, and it also examines Filipino responses to American progressivist colonial governance.
Sarita Echavez See
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- May 2018
- ISBN:
- 9781479842667
- eISBN:
- 9781479887699
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9781479842667.003.0005
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter turns to the site of the art museum and examines the work of the Filipino American artist Stephanie Syjuco, which parodies the accumulation and exhibition of Asian artifacts in the ...
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This chapter turns to the site of the art museum and examines the work of the Filipino American artist Stephanie Syjuco, which parodies the accumulation and exhibition of Asian artifacts in the Western civilizational museum. Syjuco critically uses strategies of mimesis and plagiarism in order to expose the museum’s history of raiding non-Western cultures and its racialized objectification of non-Western peoples. Less
This chapter turns to the site of the art museum and examines the work of the Filipino American artist Stephanie Syjuco, which parodies the accumulation and exhibition of Asian artifacts in the Western civilizational museum. Syjuco critically uses strategies of mimesis and plagiarism in order to expose the museum’s history of raiding non-Western cultures and its racialized objectification of non-Western peoples.
