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The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse
collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either
museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking
varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the
chapters all address objects in the context of museums, galleries
and/or the heritage sector more broadly. Specifically, the book
deals with how objects are constructed in museums, the ways in
which visitors may directly experience those objects, how objects
are utilised within particular representational strategies and
forms, and the challenges and opportunities presented by using
objects to communicate difficult and contested matters. Topics and
approaches examined in the book are diverse, but include the
objectification of natural history specimens and museum registers;
materiality, immateriality, transience and absence; subject/object
boundaries; sensory, phenomenological perspectives; the
museumisation of objects and collections; and the dangers inherent
in assuming that objects, interpretation and heritage are 'good'
for us.
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection
of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about
objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and
collecting in different historical, social and institutional
contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors
consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and
the processes and implications of collecting. This includes
considering the entanglement of objects and collectors in webs of
social relations, value and change, object biographies and the
sometimes conflicting stories that things come to represent, and
the strategies used to reconstruct and retell the narratives of
objects. The book includes considerations of individual and groups
of objects, such as domestic interiors, novelty tea-pots, Scottish
stone monuments, African ironworking, a postcolonial painting and
memorials to those killed on the roads in Australia. It also
contains chapters dealing with particular collectors - including
Charles Bell and Beatrix Potter - and representational techniques.
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection
of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about
objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and
collecting in different historical, social and institutional
contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors
consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and
the processes and implications of collecting. This includes
considering the entanglement of objects and collectors in webs of
social relations, value and change, object biographies and the
sometimes conflicting stories that things come to represent, and
the strategies used to reconstruct and retell the narratives of
objects. The book includes considerations of individual and groups
of objects, such as domestic interiors, novelty tea-pots, Scottish
stone monuments, African ironworking, a postcolonial painting and
memorials to those killed on the roads in Australia. It also
contains chapters dealing with particular collectors - including
Charles Bell and Beatrix Potter - and representational techniques.
The Things about Museums constitutes a unique, highly diverse
collection of essays unprecedented in existing books in either
museum and heritage studies or material culture studies. Taking
varied perspectives and presenting a range of case studies, the
chapters all address objects in the context of museums, galleries
and/or the heritage sector more broadly. Specifically, the book
deals with how objects are constructed in museums, the ways in
which visitors may directly experience those objects, how objects
are utilised within particular representational strategies and
forms, and the challenges and opportunities presented by using
objects to communicate difficult and contested matters. Topics and
approaches examined in the book are diverse, but include the
objectification of natural history specimens and museum registers;
materiality, immateriality, transience and absence; subject/object
boundaries; sensory, phenomenological perspectives; the
museumisation of objects and collections; and the dangers inherent
in assuming that objects, interpretation and heritage are 'good'
for us.
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