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.
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