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Rhetorics of Value

By Kratz, Corinne A

Rhetorics of Value

By Kratz, Corinne A

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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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
400
Release Date:
2025-05-06
Publication Date:
2025-04-29
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478030658
ISBN13:
9781478030652
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
646 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
225 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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