Post, Robert C.
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Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• A chain of events linking past to present — Modernization — A worthy home for national treasures — Allies and critics — To join in a Smithsonian renaissance — A special kind of insight — The winded gospel — Celebration or education? — A crisis of representation — Small’s world — Timely and relevant themes and methods of presentation.
• From an insider’s perspective, Robert C. Post … offers insight into the politics of display and the interpretation of history. Never before has a book about the Smithsonian detailed the recent and dramatic shift from collection-driven shows, with artifacts meant to speak for themselves, to concept-driven exhibitions, in which objects aim to tell a story, displayed like illustrations in a book –Dust jacket flap.

Subjects:

• Smithsonian Institution — History.
• Public history — United States.
• Museums — Social aspects — United States.
• Museums — Political aspects — United States.

Requested by Wittenbreer, B