December 7, 2007
Cultural Studies as Muse in Museum Exhibitions
If you've ever taken an art-history course or gone to a major museum, you know the drill. Typically art gets identified by the artist's name, birth and death dates, the work's size or medium, its date of composition, and a few choice facts — perhaps some sources or the movement to which it belongs, perhaps its place in the artist's career, perhaps some aesthetic quality such as composition or brushwork. Traditionally not all facts have been considered equal. Race, gender, and
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