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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Politics of display"”.
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Afterlives of extinction : the politics of display in the modern United States
… have been iconic and pervasive representatives of a planetary past for much of the twentieth century. While natural history museums are the most obvious spaces in which to encounter extinct animals, these scientific venues have never held exclusive rights to the charismatic mega fauna of the …
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The politics of display: identity and state at the San Juan Print Biennial, 1970-1981
This dissertation, The Politics of Display: Identity and State at the San Juan Print Biennial, 1970-1981, is the first comprehensive study of the Bienal de San Juan del Grabado Latinoamericano (BSJ, 1970-2001) of Puerto Rico, and its reincarnation as the Poly/Graphic Triennial (2004 - Present). As …
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Rubens, van Dyck, and women's dress in Genoese portraiture, 1606-1627
… examines elite feminine dress in the Republic of Genoa and the politics of display in portraits by Flemish painters Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640) and Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). This thesis combines art and dress history to demonstrate how Genoese women harnessed clothes and images to …
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Authority and the production of knowledge in archaeology
This thesis examines the role of authority in the production of archaeological knowledge. It examines how fluid ideas and observations formed in the field become authoritative, factual, solid archaeological products, like scientific texts, reconstructions or museum displays. It asks, what makes a …