Strange Museums: A Journey Through Poland
Author(s): Fiona McGregor
The dictum goes: Go to the bars of a place to understand its living. Go to the museums to understand its dead. When Fiona McGregor, writer and performance artist, travelled to Poland in 2006 as a festival participant, it was her first visit to Eastern Europe. She had a remarkable vantage point to observe new formations in old Europe: economic, political, and personal. Fiona gets caught up watching and participating in a culture in change, where people are struggling to live well enough under capitalism and where old ideas are expressed in the extraordinary cluster of public museums she found. This is a travelogue of Poland from street level.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : UWA Publishing
- : University of Western Australia Press
- : 0.252
- : September 2008
- : 198mm X 133mm
- : Australia
- : books
Special Fields
- : maps
- : Travel writing; Cultural studies; Museums & museology
- : 250
- : 914.38
- : 1008
- : Paperback
- : Fiona McGregor