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Extreme Collecting de J. C. H. King

Extreme Collecting

Editat de J. C. H. King, Graeme Were
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 mar 2014
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...
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781782385141
ISBN-10: 1782385142
Pagini: 248
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC

Notă biografică

Graeme Were is the director of the Museum Studies postgraduate programme at the University of Queensland. His current research focuses on material culture and ethnographic museums; digital heritage and source community engagement; and, ethnomathematics in the Pacific. His recent publications include Lines that Connect: Rethinking Pattern and Mind in the Pacific (University of Hawai'i Press, 2010), and Pacific Pattern, with S. Kuchler (Thames & Hudson, 2005). He is a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and an editor of the Journal of Material Culture. 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).

Cuprins

List of Figures Extreme Collecting: An Introduction Graeme Were Part I: Difficult 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 Kathy Walker Tubb Chapter 5. Unfit for Society? The Case of the Galton Collection at UCL Natasha McEnroe Part II: Mass Produced Chapter 6. Knowing the New Susan Pearce Chapter 7. The Global Scope of Extreme Collecting: Japanese Woodblock Prints on the Internet Richard Wilk Chapter 8. Awkward 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. Time Capsules as Extreme Collecting Brian Durrans Chapter 13. Canning Cans - Or What You Can Do with Tins: An Interview with Robert Opie J.C.H. King Notes on Contributors Index

Recenzii

"This collection is an interesting concept, composed of telling case studies over a satisfying range of collecting topics with some consideration of philosophical and theoretical perspectives." * Linda Young, Deakin University