On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture, and Education

von: Karin Priem, Kerstin te Heesen

Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2016

ISBN: 9783830984696 , 210 Seiten

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On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture, and Education


 

Book Cover

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Acknowledgments

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Contents

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On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture and Education (Karin Priem and Kerstin te Heesen)

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Icon, Allegory, Catastrophe: Three Modes of Articulation within 21st Century Public Culture (Robert Hariman)

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Displaying Things: Perspectives from Cultural Anthropology (Gudrun M. König)

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Topographies of Meaning

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Lessons of Power: The Objects

37

From Zone of Display to Zone of Signifi cation

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The Circulation of Exhibits and Knowledge

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Summary: Assemblies of Things

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Bibliography

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Facts for Babies: Visual Experiments at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Consumerism in Education (Karin Priem)

47

Introduction

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The First Picture Book: Facts on Display?

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Encounters of Art and Science: New Ways of Seeing in Progressive Education

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Why Does Photography Matter? Normative Implications of Facts

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Conclusion: The Invention of the Future at the Intersection of Consumerism, Art, Science and Education

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Bibliography

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On “Casseroles” and Cobblestones: Approaches to the Material Culture of Public Protest (Jan C. Watzlawik)

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I. Consumption as Protest: A Practice of Everyday Life

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II. Commerce as Protest: A Revolution of Everyday Life

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Bibliography

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The Family of Man on the Road to Clervaux: From Temporary American Installation to Permanent Site of World Memory (Eric J. Sandeen)

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From the Madonna lactans to The Family of Man: Tracing a Visual Frame of Reference Through History (Kerstin te Heesen)

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A Few Words on Methodology

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The Depiction of Breastfeeding in The Family of Man

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The Depiction of Breastfeeding as a Timeless Topic

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Conclusion – An Enduring Cultural Frame of Reference

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Bibliography

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The Politics of Photography: The Family of Man and the Museum of Modern Art’s War Program (Kristen Gresh)

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Hot Spots in the Cold War: Scripts, Visual Agendas, and Relocated Narratives in Cold War Photography (Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir)

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Background

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Relocated Narratives

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Scripts and Visual Agendas

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Werner Bischof in Sardinia and Iceland

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Ernst Haas in Matera

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Images in Their Own Time

160

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

165

Bibliography

165

Work in Progress! Negotiating Visual Politics at the Centre national de l’audiovisuel in Luxembourg (Françoise Poos)

171

The CNA: A Short Historical Overview

173

Political Debates and Legal Frameworks

176

Reality Sets In: Early Developments

182

Bibliography

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Dimensions of National Heritage in the USA (Brian I. Daniels)

189

Objects

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Places

194

Routes

199

Conclusion

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Bibliography

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Notes on Contributors

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