Friends of Interpretable Objects / / 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,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada) |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2022] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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