What Are Exhibitions For? an Anthropological Approach

by Inge Daniels

Why do people go to exhibitions, and what do they hope to gain from the experience? What would happen if people were encouraged to move freely through exhibition spaces, take photographs and be playful?

In this book, Inge Daniels explores what might happen if people and objects were freed from the regulations currently associated with going to an exhibition. Traditional understandings of exhibitions place the viewers in a one-way communication...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350065390
• ISBN13: 9781350065390
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.5" x 9.7"