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Published: 03 November 2008
DOI: 10.1215/9780822388678-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8867-8
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By Eunsong Kim
Published: 24 June 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5947-9
... philanthropy museum studies Getty Museum neoliberalism research motivations ...
Book Chapter

By Eunsong Kim
Published: 24 June 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5947-9
... museum studies provenance Frick Collection Homestead Strike of 1892 labor history ...
Published: 24 June 2024
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5947-9
... philanthropy, neoliberalism, and racial capitalism weave through personal life and institutional histories. philanthropy museum studies Getty Museum neoliberalism research motivations ...
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059479-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5947-9
... of labor, which was transferred to the site of the neutral and yet expressive art collection. museum studies provenance Frick Collection Homestead Strike of 1892 labor history ...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373605-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7360-5
... This chapter deals with the fate of museum anthropology in America following Franz Boas’s move from the American Museum of Natural History to Columbia University in 1905. As a case study of the American Museum of Natural History under Boas’s successor and former student, Clark Wissler...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373605-004
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7360-5
... of anthropological assemblages. The nature and operations of such assemblages are illustrated by means of four case studies: Baldwin Spencer’s exhibition in 1901 of the evolution of the Aboriginal throwing stick to the boomerang at the National Museum of Victoria, the life group that Franz Boas arranged for the Hall...
Published: 01 January 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373605-003
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7360-5
... The introduction identifies the different case studies the book is concerned with, situating these in the context of the relations between the “armchair” phase of museum anthropology and the development of anthropological fieldwork. Questioning accounts that interpret these relations...
Published: 24 June 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059479-004
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5947-9
... This chapter delineates the process by which a personal collection becomes part of a permanent archive within an established museum. It examines the donation by Walter and Louise Arensberg of Marcel Duchamp's works to the Philadelphia Museum of Art as its case study. The correspondence between...
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059844-001
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5984-4
... The introduction tells the story of the author's first visit to the Vatican Museums and encounter with some of the Indigenous cultural belongings from Turtle Island, taken from communities and then displayed at the 1925 Vatican Missionary Exposition. The author describes visiting Vatican City...
Published: 01 September 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027188-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2718-8
... The speeches in this chapter showcase the range of Johnnetta Betsch Cole's work in inspiring change around diversity, equity, and inclusion in academia, philanthropy, museums, and even corporate America. In her 2010 speech to Goldman Sachs, she outlines the moral and business case for diversity...
Published: 01 September 2023
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2718-8
... in this chapter affirm the importance of HBCUs. In her 1988 Spelman College inaugural address, she shares her vision for Spelman as a “mecca of Black women's studies,” weaving together poetry and sociological concepts to offer a hopeful message that captures the importance of liberal arts and the education...
Published: 13 September 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478059844-002
EISBN: 978-1-4780-5984-4
... the two artists, who both lived in Rome during the late nineteenth century, and analyzing their work, the chapter unsettles core colonial assumptions in studies of neoclassical art: that Indigenous peoples belonged in the past, had no place in the future, and existed only on the margins of civilization...
Published: 11 March 2016
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7464-0
... by Wright’s attendance at the Bandung Conference, from the perspective of someone other than Wright himself. Complementing and competing with Wright’s own account, it is a valuable case study of the quandaries and misrecognitions involved in global intellectual exchange amid increasing Cold War tensions...
Published: 29 April 2016
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374510-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7451-0
... genealogy museums ready-made Written for a 1995 group exhibition on contemporary artists who have engaged Frantz Fanon’s psychoanalytic study of colonialism, this chapter examines practices that address the ambivalent mix of fear and fantasy driving the political technology of the stereotype...
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By Steven Pfaff
Published: 19 June 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387923-001
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8792-3
...Archival Sources The primary sources for this study are drawn chiefly from archival research conducted in Leipzig and Berlin in the summers of 1993 and 1995, between January and August 1998, and in the summers of 2001 and 2003.1 consulted the Civic Movement Archive in Leipzig (Archiv...
Published: 19 June 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387923-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8792-3
...Archival Sources The primary sources for this study are drawn chiefly from archival research conducted in Leipzig and Berlin in the summers of 1993 and 1995, between January and August 1998, and in the summers of 2001 and 2003.1 consulted the Civic Movement Archive in Leipzig (Archiv...
Published: 19 June 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387923-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8792-3
...Archival Sources The primary sources for this study are drawn chiefly from archival research conducted in Leipzig and Berlin in the summers of 1993 and 1995, between January and August 1998, and in the summers of 2001 and 2003.1 consulted the Civic Movement Archive in Leipzig (Archiv...
Published: 19 June 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387923-010
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8792-3
...Archival Sources The primary sources for this study are drawn chiefly from archival research conducted in Leipzig and Berlin in the summers of 1993 and 1995, between January and August 1998, and in the summers of 2001 and 2003.1 consulted the Civic Movement Archive in Leipzig (Archiv...
Book Chapter

By Steven Pfaff
Published: 19 June 2006
DOI: 10.1215/9780822387923-011
EISBN: 978-0-8223-8792-3
...Archival Sources The primary sources for this study are drawn chiefly from archival research conducted in Leipzig and Berlin in the summers of 1993 and 1995, between January and August 1998, and in the summers of 2001 and 2003.1 consulted the Civic Movement Archive in Leipzig (Archiv...