On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place

182 pages. Text unmarked. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Slight shelf-wear and bumping to corners. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 2 pounds. Category: Art::Painting, Drawing & Sculpture; ISBN: 1565844548. Inventory No: 031100. Hardcover

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In this "excellent" (The Baltimore Sun) book, Lucy R. Lippard weaves together cultural criticism, anthropology, and community activism for an in-depth look at how tourism sites are conceived and represented, and how they affect the places they transform. Critic Andrew Ross calls Lippard "the most surefooted tour guide you could hope for" in her exploration of being a tourist in one's own home, of how advertising and photography define place, of how antique shops function as populist museums, and of the commodification of indigenous cultures. With her characteristic breadth and critical eye, Lippard discusses the political economies of leisure spaces, the tourist's fascination with tragic destinations (such as the sites of massacres and nuclear weapons tests, or Holocaust memorials), and our willingness to let national parks and heritage sites define nature and history.

Product Info

ISBN: 1565844548

ISBN-13: 9781565844544

Publisher: The New Press

Year: 1999

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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