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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
- 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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