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Cabinet of curiosities : Mark Dion and the university as installation / Colleen J. Sheehy, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dion, Mark, 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cabinets of curiosities--Exhibitions.
- Cabinets of curiosities.
- Site-specific installations (Art)--Minnesota--Minneapolis--Exhibitions.
- Site-specific installations (Art).
- Museum techniques--Exhibitions.
- Museum techniques.
- University of Minnesota--Exhibitions.
- University of Minnesota.
- Dion, Mark, 1961---Exhibitions.
- Dion, Mark.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (148 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press : published in cooperation with the Weisman Art Museum, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The richly illustrated essays in Cabinet of Curiosities records the creative processes behind an installation designed by contemporary artist Mark Dion at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, a collaboration of museum staff, students, and collection curators.Cabinet of Curiosities offers commentary on the ways in which collecting has undergirded the creation of knowledge within universities and in Western society.
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Restaging the Cabinet of Curiosities; Contemporary Museums and the Cabinet of Curiosities; Cabinet of Curiosities; Student Curators Reflect on Cabinet of Curiosities; Cabinet of Curiosities Exhibition Checklist; University of Minnesota Collections
- Notes:
- Catalog of an exhibition "Mark Dion: cabinet of curiosities" at the Weisman Art Museum from Feb. 24-May 27, 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-9669-1
- OCLC:
- 476096765
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