Karin E Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 6107014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karin E Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karin E |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON K E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Asheville |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4177-7249 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Discourse and Display: The Modern Eye, Entrepreneurship, and the Cultural Transformation of the Patchwork Quilt
This article explores the effort of two cultural entrepreneurs to persuade members of the fine art world to appreciate quilts on purely artistic grounds. Mobilizing museum resources to effect this transformation involved strategies of discourse and display that invoked the modern eye, a way of seeing that privileges modernist aesthetic standards. By examining these strategies, a deeper understanding of how the modern eye is constructed by the cul…
Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory
Foreword 1. The Problem Defined: The Need for an Anthropology of Art 2. The Theory of the Art Nexus 3. The Art Nexus and the Index 4. The Involution of the Index in the Art Nexus 5. The Origination of the Index 6. The Critique of the Index 7. The Distributed Person 8. Style and Culture 9. Conclusion: The Extended Mind Bibliography Index
Museums and Money: The Impact of Funding on Exhibitions, Scholarship, and Management
Recent controversies over politically sensitive or allegedly pornographic museum exhibitions have called attention to the sources of funding, public and private, of museums and other cultural organizations.Should funders have a say in what gets exhibited by a museum?Would this constitute censorship or merely be a reasonable restraint over the way public or corporate funds are used?While funding for the arts was shifting from individuals to instit…
Discourse and Display: The Modern Eye, Entrepreneurship, and the Cultural Transformation of the Patchwork Quilt
This article explores the effort of two cultural entrepreneurs to persuade members of the fine art world to appreciate quilts on purely artistic grounds. Mobilizing museum resources to effect this transformation involved strategies of discourse and display that invoked the modern eye, a way of seeing that privileges modernist aesthetic standards. By examining these strategies, a deeper understanding of how the modern eye is constructed by the cul…
Museums and Money: The Impact of Funding on Exhibitions, Scholarship, and Management
Recent controversies over politically sensitive or allegedly pornographic museum exhibitions have called attention to the sources of funding, public and private, of museums and other cultural organizations.Should funders have a say in what gets exhibited by a museum?Would this constitute censorship or merely be a reasonable restraint over the way public or corporate funds are used?While funding for the arts was shifting from individuals to instit…
Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory
Foreword 1. The Problem Defined: The Need for an Anthropology of Art 2. The Theory of the Art Nexus 3. The Art Nexus and the Index 4. The Involution of the Index in the Art Nexus 5. The Origination of the Index 6. The Critique of the Index 7. The Distributed Person 8. Style and Culture 9. Conclusion: The Extended Mind Bibliography Index
Discourse and Display: The Modern Eye, Entrepreneurship, and the Cultural Transformation of the Patchwork Quilt
This article explores the effort of two cultural entrepreneurs to persuade members of the fine art world to appreciate quilts on purely artistic grounds. Mobilizing museum resources to effect this transformation involved strategies of discourse and display that invoked the modern eye, a way of seeing that privileges modernist aesthetic standards. By examining these strategies, a deeper understanding of how the modern eye is constructed by the cul…
Art (2 works) · Art History and Market Analysis (2 works) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Visual arts (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works) · Exhibition (1 works)