Extreme Collecting : : Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums /

Extreme Collecting : : Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums / / ed. by Graeme Were, J. C. H. King.

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 purc...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Bardgett, Suzanne,
Cornish, Paul,
Durrans, Brian,
Geisbusch, Jan,
King, J. C. H.,
Lambert, Susan,
Lidchi, Henrietta,
Lohman, Jack,
McEnroe, Natasha,
Opie, Robert,
Pearce, Susan,
Quirke, Stephen,
Walker Tubb, Kathryn,
Were, Graeme,
Wilk, Richard,
HerausgeberIn:
King, J. C. H.,
Were, Graeme,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Extreme Collecting: Dealing with Difficult Objects
  • Part I: Difficult Objects
  • 1. The Material Culture of Persecution: Collecting for the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum
  • 2. Lyricism and Offence in Egyptian Archaeology Collections
  • 3. Contested Human Remains
  • 4. Extreme or Commonplace: The Collecting of Unprovenanced Antiquities
  • 5. Unfit for Society? The Case of the Galton Collection at University College London
  • Part II: Mass Produced
  • 6. Knowing the New
  • 7. The Global Scope of Extreme Collecting: Japanese Woodblock Prints on the Internet
  • 8. Awkward Objects: Collecting, Deploying and Debating Relics
  • 9. Great Expectations and Modest Transactions: Art, Commodity and Collecting
  • Part III: Extreme Matters
  • 10. Extremes of Collecting at the Imperial War Museum 1917–2009: Struggles with the Large and the Ephemeral
  • 11. Plastics – Why Not? A Perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics
  • 12. Time Capsules as Extreme Collecting
  • 13. Canning Cans – a Brand New Way of Looking at History
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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