On Display

New Essays in Cultural Studies

• Author(s): Anna Smith, Lydia Wevers,
• Publisher: Victoria University Press
• Pages: 248
• ISBN_10: 0864734549
  ISBN_13: 9780864734549
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / General , Art / History / General , Art / Techniques / Acrylic Painting , Art / Art & Politics , Art / Australian & Oceanian , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Social Science / Popular Culture , Social Science / Sociology / General ,

Description:... A group of New Zealand's leading cultural studies scholars provide their perspectives on the politics of display in this thought-provoking collection of essays. Philip Armstrong, Roger Blackley, Kyla McFarlane, Annie Potts, and Paul Williams, among others, showcase their thinking about cultural activities--looking and showing, viewing and arranging--that are deeply embedded in ideology. From the antique plaster casts held by Auckland Museum to the wild foods on New Zealand's West Coast, the essays pursue a variety of trajectories on how New Zealanders display themselves and what they profess and contest in their collective representations.