Atlantic Slavery and Traumatic Representation in Museums
The National Great Blacks in Wax Museum as a Test Case
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11192152 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marcus Wood (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 151-171 |
| Publication date | 2008-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavery and Abolition (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0144-039X • E-ISSN: 1743-9523 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01440390802027772 |
| OpenAlex | W1979512232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 4 |
This article uses the National Great Blacks in Wax Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, as a context for thinking about the success and failure of British institutional attempts to commemorate the traumatic memory of Atlantic slavery in 2007. The analysis opens with a contextualising history of the development and philosophy of Elmer and Joanne Martin, the co-founders of the Great Blacks in Wax Museum. Three special exhibits - namely, '100 Greatest Black Inventions', 'The Middle Passage' and 'Lynching' - are then considered in detail. The discussion makes extensive use of interviews conducted with artists and museum staff responsible for creating and displaying the exhibits
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Context (archaeology · Courtesy · Media studies · Sociology · Visual arts · Asian American and Pacific Histories · History · Law · Photography and Visual Culture · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2022 (14) |
| Highly cited | No |