Antipodean Aesthetics, Public Policy and the Museum

Te Papa, for example

Bibliographic Data

ID2978787
AuthorsBen Dibley (0000-0002-7517-0405, University of Auckland, corresponding author)
Year1970
Volume13
Issue1
Publication date1970-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCultural Studies Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1446-8123 • E-ISSN: 1837-8692
PublisherUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/csr.v13i1.2159
OpenAlexW1990323685
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited11

The Museum of New Zealand-Te Papa Tongarewa has proved a complex cultural site that has generated much public debate and a growing academic literature. This article departs from critical approaches that resolve the analysis of this museum by pointing up its programmatic inconsistencies, internal contradictions, representational inadequacies or its institutional paradoxes. Rather than establishing Te Papa as an object for reform the author reads it as an archive for reflection on the cultural predicament of an antipodean modernity

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Critical reflection · Media studies · Modernity · Object (grammar · Political science · Project commissioning · Publishing · Reflection (computer programming · Sociology · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · History · Law · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Philosophy

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