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.
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Plates
- 1. Looking into the Void: Exhibition Design and Communication
- 2. Rhetorics of Value: Fashioning Worth and Meaning through Cultural Display
- 3. From Tippoo’s Tiger to Kauai Lagoons: Constituting Authorities, Defining Diversities, and Poetics of Similarity and Difference (co-authored with Ivan Karp)
- 4. What Makes Exhibitions Ethnographic?
- 5. Portable Technologies: Adapting and Transforming Ethnographic Exhibits and African Museums
- 6. Redesigning Popular Histories and Facing Race through Exhibition
- 7. Alchemies and Encounters in Exhibit Design and Communication
- Appendix A. The Riddle of Exhibit Design: Essential Yet Overlooked
- Appendix B. The Field of Visitor Studies and Exhibit Design
- Notes
- References
- Index
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