Rhetorics of Value
Exhibition Design and Communication in Museums and Beyond
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Product details:
- Publisher Duke University Press Books
- Date of Publication 2 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Cloth over boards
- ISBN 9781478028390
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 229x152 mm
- Weight 794 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 107 illustrations, including 12 in color 700
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Short description:
Corinne A. Kratz examines exhibition design as communication, analyzing how the multiple media combined and orchestrated through exhibit design create a platform through which visitors forge meanings and values during their exhibit encounters.
MoreLong description:
In Rhetorics of Value, Corinne A. Kratz explores how exhibition design creates and conveys values that have the potential to touch, educate, and engage visitors. Drawing on case studies from the Victoria and Albert Museum, museums in South Africa and Kenya, a Hawaiian resort hotel, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, among others, Kratz shows how exhibits help shape and narrate cultural categories, values, and histories while provoking questions and evoking memories and experiences. She crosses contexts to consider ethnographic, history, and art exhibits in national and community museums and other display settings. Through these examples, Kratz traces how exhibition designers combine objects, texts, images, lighting, audio, space, and narratives to craft a complex, multilayered communicative form that visitors experience as they move through museums. By investigating the relationship between audience reception and exhibition design strategies, Kratz contends that through design, exhibits can shape the ways we know, the stories we tell, and our contours of meaning and engagement.
“Rhetorics of Value makes a major contribution to the theory of museum exhibitions by focusing on the relationship between the design of exhibitions and the way they are open to interpretation and their impact. Covering a diverse set of exhibitions, this important book will engage with a wide audience and will influence discourse in museum studies, cultural studies, African studies, and anthropology more generally.”
Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xv
1. Looking into the Void: Exhibition Design and Communication 1
2. Rhetorics of Value: Fashioning Worth and Meaning through Cultural Display 23
3. From Tippoo’s Tiger to Kauai Lagoons: Constituting Authorities, Defining Diversities, and Poetics of Similarity and Difference (co-authored with Ivan Karp) 65
4. What Makes Exhibitions Ethnographic? 101
5. Portable Technologies: Adapting and Transforming Ethnographic Exhibits and African Museums 137
6. Redesigning Popular Histories and Facing Race Through Exhibition 171
7. Alchemies and Encounters in Exhibit Design and Communication 211
Appendix A. The Riddle of Exhibit Design: Essential but Overlooked 239
Appendix B. The Field of Visitor Studies and Exhibit Design 245
Notes 249
References 299
Index
