Sentences with phrase «ethnographic displays»

Here behind the velvet rope, the philanthropist is the specimen, turning the table on ethnographic displays commonly included in 19th century world's fairs where humans were on view in their recreated habitats.

The installation is treated like a specimen, or a museum exhibit cordoned off with a velvet rope, which talks back to the 19th century ethnographic displays at the world fairs that displayed people from «exotic» lands in recreated habitats.

Hanging on the wall under the guise of a traditional museological or ethnographic display, these works embody a hybrid aesthetic that allegorically represents the present - day globalization of culture.

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One of the first American collectors to regard African sculpture as fine art rather than ethnographic curiosity, Barnes displayed African masks and figures alongside paintings by Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani.

Between 1968 and 1970, Baumgarten undertook a systematic photographic study of how several European ethnographic museums frame the viewer's perception through the manner in which their objects are displayed.

His current installation, Oak Effect, at the Bloomberg Space, London, sees the gallery transformed into a fantastical showroom window housing a collection of ethnographic and design objects from the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums Collection, displayed within a framework comprised of dining tables, worktops and nesting tables.