MUSEUMS AND GLOBAL PUBLIC SPHERES

Reference List

The Museums and Global Public Spheres reference list is an ongoing project to compile a reference list of important works on museums, exhibitions, heritage, and related issues published in various countries. The list includes sections both for published works and for relevant video titles. Additional web-based resources are available at Sites of Interest, including links to institutions discussed in conference papers and a range of policy documents. Resources included on the list have been submitted by people associated with MGPS planning meetings, the Bellagio conference, the Atlanta workshop, and the Museum Frictions volume. The list will be updated every few months as additional citations are received from those associated with the project.

Published Works

America's Museums. 1999. Special issue of Daedalus (Vol. 128, No. 3).

Bennett, Tony. 1995. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics. London: Routledge.

Bryant, Scott P., Harry P. Hatry, and Elaine Morley. 2001. Comparative Performance Measurement. Washington, D.C.: Urban Institute.

Clifford, James. 1988. The Predicament of Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Conn, Steven. 1998. Museums and American Intellectual Life, 1876-1926. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Crimp, Douglas. 1993. On the Museum's Ruins. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Dubin, Steven C. 1999. Displays of Power: Memory and Amnesia in the American Museum. New York: New York University Press.

Handler, Richard, and Eric Gable. 1997. The New History in an Old Museum: Creating the Past at Colonial Williamsburg. Durham: Duke University Press.

Harris, Neil. 1990. Cultural Excursions: Marketing Appetites and Cultural Tastes in Modern America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Henderson, Amy, and Adrienne L. Kaeppler, eds. 1997. Exhibiting Dilemmas: Issues of Representation at the Smithsonian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Karp, Ivan and Steven D. Lavine, eds. 1991. Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Karp, Ivan, Christine M. Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine, eds. 1992. Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Karp, Ivan and Corinne A. Kratz. 2000. Reflections on the Fate of Tippoo's Tiger: Defining Cultures in Public Display. In Cultural Encounters: Communicating Otherness, ed. E. Hallam and B. Street. London: Routledge.

Katriel, Tamar. 1997. Performing the Past: A Study of Israeli Settlement Museums. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Kavanaugh, Gaynor. 1994. Museums and the First World War: A Social History. Leicester: Leicester University Press.

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 1998. Destination Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kratz, Corinne A. 2002. The Ones That Are Wanted: Communication and the Politics of Representation in a Photographic Exhibition. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Kurin, Richard. 1997. Reflections of a Culture Broker: A View from the Smithsonian. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

Macdonald, Sharon, ed. 1998. The Politics of Display: Museums, Science, Culture. New York: Routledge.

Myers, Fred, ed.. 2001. The Empire of Things: Regimes of Value and Material Culture. Santa Fe: School of American Research Press.

Phillips, Ruth and Christopher B. Steiner, eds. 1999. Unpacking Culture: Art and Commodity in Colonial and Postcolonial Worlds. Berkeley: University of California Press.

Pique, Francesca, and Leslie Rainer. 1999. Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Instutitue.

Ruffins, Fath Davis. 1985. An Elegant Metaphor: The Exhibition as Form. Museum News 64(1):54-60.

Sandeen, Eric J. 1995. Picturing an Exhibition: The Family of Man and 1950s America. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press.

Schneider, Andrea Kupfer. 1998. Creating the Musée d'Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Sherman, Daniel J., and Irit Rogoff, eds. 1994. Museum Culture: History, Discourses, Spectacles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Thomas, Nicholas. 1991. Entangled Objects: Exchange, Material Culture and Colonialism in the Pacific. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

Videos

Fraser, Andrea. 1997. May I help you?: January 12-February 2, 1991. Written and directed by Andrea Fraser, 20 min. American Fine Arts Co.

Fraser, Andrea. 1989. Museum Highlights: a gallery talk conducted at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, February. Written and performed by Andrea Fraser, 29 min. American Fine Arts Co.

Fraser, Andrea. 1991. Welcome to the Wadsworth: a tour conducted at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, on Saturdays and Sundays during April, 1991. Written and performed by Andrea Fraser, 26 min. American Fine Arts Co.

Getty Conservation Institute. 1997. History Told on Walls. 43 min.

Harrison, Amy. Guerrillas in Our Midst, directed by Amy Harrison, 35 min., Women Make Movies, 1992.

Museum of Conflicting Histories. 2002. BBC2. Distribution to be determined in 2003.

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