Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums / edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Were, Graeme.

King, J. C. H. (Jonathan C. H.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects.

Museums.

Museums--Collection management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities. The aim is to apply a critical approach to the rigidity of museums in maintaining essentially nineteenth-century ideas of collecting; and to move towards identifying priorities for

Contents:

The material culture of persecution : collecting for the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum / Suzanne Bardgett

Lyricism and offence in Egyptian archaeology collections / Stephen Quirke

Contested human remains / Jack Lohman

Extreme or commonplace : the collecting of unprovenanced antiquities / Kathy Walker Tubb

Unfit for society? : the case of the Galton Collection at UCL / Natasha McEnroe

Knowing the new / Susan Pearce

The global scope of extreme collecting : Japanese woodblock prints on the Internet / Richard Wilk

Awkward objects : collecting, deploying and debating relics / Jan Geisbusch

Great expectations and modest transactions : art, commodity and collecting / Henrietta Lidchi

Extremes of collecting at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2009 : struggles with the large and the ephemeral / Paul Cornish

Plastics

why not? : a perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics / Susan Lambert

Time capsules as extreme collecting / Brian Durrans

Canning cans, or, What you can do with tins : an interview with Robert Opie / J.C.H. King.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80758-917-X

1-280-49673-8

9786613591968

0-85745-364-5

OCLC:

793996553