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Making Ends Meet: Essays and Talks 1992-2004
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Artikel-Nr:
9780864735034
Veröffentl:
2006
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.04.2006
Seiten:
368
Autor:
Ian Wedde
Gewicht:
472 g
Format:
212x147x32 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ian Wedde is an independent writer and curator. He has published novels, short stories, poetry and a previous book of essays, How to be Nowhere: Essays and Texts 1971?1994. Between 1994 and 2004 he was head of art and visual culture and of humanities at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. In 2005 he is the Meridian Energy Katherine Mansfield memorial Fellow in Menton.
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.