On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture, and Education (eBook)

Book Cover 1
Acknowledgments 5
Contents 7
On Display: Visual Politics, Material Culture and Education (Karin Priem and Kerstin te Heesen) 9
Icon, Allegory, Catastrophe: Three Modes of Articulation within 21st Century Public Culture (Robert Hariman) 17
Displaying Things: Perspectives from Cultural Anthropology (Gudrun M. König) 35
Topographies of Meaning 36
Lessons of Power: The Objects 37
From Zone of Display to Zone of Signifi cation 39
The Circulation of Exhibits and Knowledge 41
Summary: Assemblies of Things 43
Bibliography 43
Facts for Babies: Visual Experiments at the Intersection of Art, Science, and Consumerism in Education (Karin Priem) 47
Introduction 47
The First Picture Book: Facts on Display? 50
Encounters of Art and Science: New Ways of Seeing in Progressive Education 56
Why Does Photography Matter? Normative Implications of Facts 59
Conclusion: The Invention of the Future at the Intersection of Consumerism, Art, Science and Education 65
Bibliography 66
On “Casseroles” and Cobblestones: Approaches to the Material Culture of Public Protest (Jan C. Watzlawik) 69
I. Consumption as Protest: A Practice of Everyday Life 70
II. Commerce as Protest: A Revolution of Everyday Life 73
Bibliography 78
The Family of Man on the Road to Clervaux: From Temporary American Installation to Permanent Site of World Memory (Eric J. Sandeen) 83
From the Madonna lactans to The Family of Man: Tracing a Visual Frame of Reference Through History (Kerstin te Heesen) 99
A Few Words on Methodology 101
The Depiction of Breastfeeding in The Family of Man 103
The Depiction of Breastfeeding as a Timeless Topic 107
Conclusion – An Enduring Cultural Frame of Reference 117
Bibliography 122
The Politics of Photography: The Family of Man and the Museum of Modern Art’s War Program (Kristen Gresh) 127
Hot Spots in the Cold War: Scripts, Visual Agendas, and Relocated Narratives in Cold War Photography (Æsa Sigurjónsdóttir) 145
Background 147
Relocated Narratives 149
Scripts and Visual Agendas 151
Werner Bischof in Sardinia and Iceland 155
Ernst Haas in Matera 159
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 186
Dimensions of National Heritage in the USA (Brian I. Daniels) 189
Objects 189
Places 194
Routes 199
Conclusion 203
Bibliography 203
Notes on Contributors 207