Open AccessAntipodean Aesthetics, Public Policy and the Museum: Te Papa, for example
Author(s) -
Ben Dibley
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v13i1.2159
Subject(s) - modernity , sociology , publishing , aesthetics , object (grammar) , critical reflection , reflection (computer programming) , project commissioning , media studies , art history , history , art , political science , law , philosophy , pedagogy , linguistics , computer science , programming language
The Museum of New Zealand–Te Papa Tongarewa has proved a complex cultural site that has generated much public debate and a growing academic literature. This article departs from critical approaches that resolve the analysis of this museum by pointing up its programmatic inconsistencies, internal contradictions, representational inadequacies or its institutional paradoxes. Rather than establishing Te Papa as an object for reform the author reads it as an archive for reflection on the cultural predicament of an antipodean modernity