Friends of Interpretable Objects / / Miguel Tamen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Tamen, Miguel,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022]; ©2001
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 SENSIBLE ECONOMICS --; 2 ICONOCLASM --; 3 PRESERVATION --; 4 PERSONS --; 5 RIGHTS --; 6 BODIES --; 7 HOSTILITY TO INTERPRETATION --; 8 DEFERENCE --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674044210; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674044210?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Miguel Tamen.

Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, he suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society.