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Extreme Collecting

Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums
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von: Graeme Were, J. C. H. King
38,99 €
Verlag:	Berghahn Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	01.03.2012
ISBN/EAN:	9780857453648
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	248

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Titelbeschreibung

By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting ‘difficult’ objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities. The aim is to apply a critical approach to the rigidity of museums in maintaining essentially nineteenth-century ideas of collecting; and to move towards identifying priorities for collection policies in museums, which are inclusive of acquiring ‘difficult’ objects. Much of the book engages with the question of the limits to the practice of collecting as a means to think through the implementation of new strategies.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
 <a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/WereExtreme_intro.pdf">Extreme Collecting:</a><a href="http://www.berghahnbooks.com/downloads/intros/WereExtreme_intro.pdf"> Dealing with Difficult Objects</a> Graeme Were
 Part I: Dificult Objects
 Chapter 1. The Material Culture of Persecution: Collecting for the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum Suzanne Bardgett
 Chapter 2. Lyricism and Offence in Egyptian Archaeology Collections Stephen Quirke
 Chapter 3. Contested Human Remains Jack Lohman
 Chapter 4. Extreme or Commonplace: The Collecting of Unprovenanced Antiquities Kathryn Walker Tubb
 Chapter 5. Unfit for Society? The Case of the Galton Collection at University College London Natasha McEnroe
 Part II: Mass Produced
 Chapter 6. Knowing the New Susan Pearce
 Chapter 7. T he Global Scope of Extreme Collecting: Japanese Woodblock Prints on the Internet Richard Wilk
 Chapter 8. A wkward Objects: Collecting, Deploying and Debating Relics Jan Geisbusch
 Chapter 9. Great Expectations and Modest Transactions: Art, Commodity and Collecting Henrietta Lidchi
 Part III: Extreme Matters
 Chapter 10. Extremes of Collecting at the Imperial War Museum 1917–2009: Struggles with the Large and the Ephemeral Paul Cornish
 Chapter 11. Plastics – Why Not? A Perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics Susan Lambert
 Chapter 12. T ime Capsules as Extreme Collecting Brian Durrans
 Chapter 13. Canning Cans – a Brand New Way of Looking at History Robert Opie in conversation with J.C.H. King
 Notes on Contributors Index

Autorenportrait

J. C. H. King writes about the art and material culture of Native North America, and is interested in wider issues of museum ethnography, cultural policy and the visual arts, and the collection of contemporary art, photography, and ephemera. He became research Keeper of Anthropology at the British Museum, in 2010. His recent publications include: Three Centuries of Woodlands Art: A Collection of Essays (European Review of Native American Studies, 2007), ed. with C.F. Feest, Provenance: Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England 1760–1990, with H. Waterfield (Somogy, 2006) and Arctic Clothing, ed. with B. Pauksztat and R. Storrie (British Museum Press, 2005).