Museum pieces : toward the indigenization of Canadian museums /
Phillips, Ruth B. 1945-
Museum pieces : toward the indigenization of Canadian museums / Ruth B. Phillips. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages :) : illustrations (some color), portraits. - McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 7. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
part 1. Confrontation and contestation. Undoing the settler museum : showing off and showing up -- "Arrow of truth" : the Indians of Canada pavilion at Expo 67, with Sherry Brydon -- Moment of truth : The Spirit Sings as critical event and the exhibition inside it -- APEC at the Museum of Anthropology : the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite. part 2. Re-disciplining the museum. Exclusions and inclusions : authenticity, sacrality, and possession -- How museums marginalize : naming domains of inclusion and exclusion -- Fielding culture : dialogues between art history and anthropology -- Disappearing acts : traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and the sacrality of Onkwehonwe medicine masks -- Global travels of a Mi'kmaq coat : colonial legacies, repatriation, and the new cosmopolitanism. part 3. Working it out. Indigenizing exhibitions : experiments and practices -- Making space : First Nations artists, the national museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992) -- Cancelling white noise : Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994) -- Threads of the Land at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1995) -- Toward a dialogic paradigm : new models of collaborative curatorial practice -- Inside-out and outside-in : re-presenting Native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004). part 4. Second museum age. Working with hybridity -- From harmony to antiphony : the Indigenous presence in a (future) Portrait Gallery of Canada -- Modes of inclusion : Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario -- Digital (r)evolution of museum-based research -- "Learning to feed off controversies" : meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums.
9780773587465
Museum exhibits--Canada.
Museums and Indians--Canada.
Museums--Political aspects--Canada.
Museums--Social aspects--Canada.
Native peoples--Museums--Canada.
Electronic Books.
E76 / .M874 2011
Museum pieces : toward the indigenization of Canadian museums / Ruth B. Phillips. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (xvi, 376 pages :) : illustrations (some color), portraits. - McGill-Queen's/Beaverbrook Canadian Foundation studies in art history ; 7. .
Includes bibliographies and index.
part 1. Confrontation and contestation. Undoing the settler museum : showing off and showing up -- "Arrow of truth" : the Indians of Canada pavilion at Expo 67, with Sherry Brydon -- Moment of truth : The Spirit Sings as critical event and the exhibition inside it -- APEC at the Museum of Anthropology : the politics of site and the poetics of sight bite. part 2. Re-disciplining the museum. Exclusions and inclusions : authenticity, sacrality, and possession -- How museums marginalize : naming domains of inclusion and exclusion -- Fielding culture : dialogues between art history and anthropology -- Disappearing acts : traditions of exposure, traditions of enclosure, and the sacrality of Onkwehonwe medicine masks -- Global travels of a Mi'kmaq coat : colonial legacies, repatriation, and the new cosmopolitanism. part 3. Working it out. Indigenizing exhibitions : experiments and practices -- Making space : First Nations artists, the national museums, and the Columbus Quincentennial (1992) -- Cancelling white noise : Gerald McMaster's Savage Graces (1994) -- Threads of the Land at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (1995) -- Toward a dialogic paradigm : new models of collaborative curatorial practice -- Inside-out and outside-in : re-presenting Native North America at the Canadian Museum of Civilization and The National Museum of the American Indian (2003-2004). part 4. Second museum age. Working with hybridity -- From harmony to antiphony : the Indigenous presence in a (future) Portrait Gallery of Canada -- Modes of inclusion : Indigenous art at the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Ontario -- Digital (r)evolution of museum-based research -- "Learning to feed off controversies" : meeting the challenges of translation and recovery in Canadian museums.
9780773587465
Museum exhibits--Canada.
Museums and Indians--Canada.
Museums--Political aspects--Canada.
Museums--Social aspects--Canada.
Native peoples--Museums--Canada.
Electronic Books.
E76 / .M874 2011