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- Title
On the Meaning of Exhibitions - Exhibition Epistèmes in a Historical Perspective.
- Authors
SMEDS, KERSTIN
- Abstract
This essay aims at contributing to our understanding of the nature of exhibitions, namely how and why we make them, and what they - and the things in them - might symbolize. My focus will be on exhibitions of objects in classical museums of cultural history, archaeology and ethnology/ethnography. I will discuss how scientific epistemologies and discourses, as well as the history of ideas and ideologies, are reflected in the way museums and exhibitions are organized. Theoretically, I will lean on ideas of Michel Foucault presented in his work The Order of Things (Foucault, 1991) and Power/Knowledge (Gordon 1980), but also on Mieke Bal's Double Exposures (1996), and a few others.
- Subjects
MEANING (Philosophy); MUSEUM exhibits; HISTORICAL museums; CULTURAL history; ARCHAEOLOGICAL museums &; collections; ETHNOLOGICAL museums &; collections
- Publication
Designs for Learning, 2012, Vol 5, Issue 1/2, p50
- ISSN
1654-7608
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2478/dfl-2014-0004