Curating America : journeys through storyscapes of the American past / by Richard Rabinowitz ; with illustrations by Richard T. Hoyen.
| Author/creator | Rabinowitz, Richard |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] |
| Description | pages cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Becoming a public historian. Discovering a calling ; No ideas but in things ; Twentieth-century minds dissecting nineteenth-century problems ; Other hands, other minds ; The elements of interpretation -- Finding ourselves : interpreting place. History, dislocated ; Envisioning place on gallery walls ; Museum visitors on center stage ; Museums without walls ; Visitors reinsert human presence into the landscape ; Storyscapes everywhere -- Beholding : interpreting stuff. The object of the object ; The object as evidence and experience ; The invention of the cluster -- Belonging : interpreting identity and community. The body politic in the museum ; History turns critical ; Taking the new social history public ; The community as curator ; Can the history museum fix it? -- Postscript -- A reader's reflections. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2016009980 |
| ISBN | 9781469629506 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 146962950X (cloth ; alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |