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Museum materialities : objects, engagements, interpretations / edited by Sandra H. Dudley.

Penn Museum Library AM7 .M8723 2010
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Dudley, Sandra H.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Museums--Social aspects.
Museums.
Museums--Psychological aspects.
Museum visitors.
Museum exhibits--Social aspects.
Museum exhibits.
Museum exhibits--Psychological aspects.
Material culture--Social aspects.
Material culture.
Material culture--Psychological aspects.
Senses and sensation--Social aspects.
Senses and sensation.
Emotions--Social aspects.
Emotions.
Aesthetics--Social aspects.
Aesthetics.
Psychological aspects.
Physical Description:
xix, 289 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
Contents:
Museum materialities : objects, sense and feeling / Sandra H. Dudley
Photographs and history : emotion and materiality / Elizabeth Edwards
Remembering the dead by affecting the living : the case of a miniature model of Treblinka / Andrea Witcomb
Touching the Buddha : encounters with a charismatic object / Christopher Wingfield
Contemporary art : an immaterial practice? / Helen Pheby
The eyes have it : eye movements and the debatable differences between original objects and reproductions / Helen Saunderson, Alice Cruickshank and Eugene McSorley
Experiencing materiality in the museum : artefacts re-made / Alexander Stevenson
Virginia Woolf's glasses : material encounters in the literary/artistic house museum / Nuala Hancock
When ethnographies enter art galleries / Lydia Nakashima Degarrod
Engaging the material world : object knowledge and Australian journeys / Kirsten Wehner and Martha Sear
Watch your step : embodiment and encounter at Tate Modern / Helen Rees Leahy
Reconsidering digital surrogates : toward a viewer-orientated model of the gallery experience / Bradley L. Taylor
Dancing pot and pregnant jar? : on ceramics, metaphors and creative labels / Wing Yan Vivian Ting
Myth, memory and the senses in the Churchill Museum / Sheila Watson
Dreams and wishes : the multi-sensory museum space / Viv Golding
Making meaning beyond display / Chris Dorsett
Authenticity and object relations in contemporary performance art / Klare Scarborough
Afterword / Howard Morphy.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
9780415492188
0415492181
9780415492171
0415492173
OCLC:
308216483

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