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The Art of the Anthropological Diorama - Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and Constructing Authenticity (Paperback)
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The Art of the Anthropological Diorama - Franz Boas, Arthur C. Parker, and Constructing Authenticity (Paperback)
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Dioramas are devices on the frontier of different disciplines: art,
anthropology, and the natural sciences, to name a few. Their use
developed during the nineteenth century, following reforms aimed at
reinforcing the educational dimension of museums. While dioramas
with human figures are now the subject of healthy criticism and are
gradually being dismantled, a thorough study of the work of artists
and scientists who made them helps shed light on their genesis.
Among other displays, this book examines anthropological dioramas
of two North American museums in the early twentieth century: the
American Museum of Natural History in New York, and the New York
State Museum. Sites of creation and mediation of knowledge,
combining painting, sculpture, photography, and material culture,
dioramas tell a story that is always political.
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