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Pathways of art : how objects get to the museum / Museum Rietberg ; edited by Esther Tisa Francini ; with the collaboration of Sarah Csernay.

Penn Museum Library N3648 .P38 2022
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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Museum Rietberg, host institution.
George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
Tisa Francini, Esther, 1972- editor.
Csernay, Sarah, contributor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Art museums--Acquisitions--Exhibitions.
Art museums--Collection management--Exhibitions.
Indigenous art--Collectors and collecting--Exhibitions.
Art museums--Acquisitions.
Art museums--Collection management.
Museum Rietberg--Exhibitions.
Museum Rietberg.
Physical Description:
437 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 27 cm
Place of Publication:
Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess, [2022]
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: Acquiring
Introduction
From Libraries to the Museum The illustrated pharmacopoeia Ikhtiyarat-i Badl'i by Hajji Zayn al-Attar / Hosine Vuille
An Aztec Rattlesnake, the Shadow of Alexander von Humboldt, and the Limitations of Provenance Research / David Blankenstem
Tlingit Sun Mask: Approaching the history of an object from multiple perspectives / Mira Jossen
Traces of Colonial Injustice: Collaborative provenance research into artworks from the Kingdom of Benin / Esther Tisa Francini
The Art of Diplomacy: Gift exchange in the Kingdom of Bamum / Michaela Oberhofer
Collecting
Power through Art: Imperial collecting in China / Kim Karlsson
"Wild Things" in the Villa The Oceania Collection of Sidney W-Brown / Sarah' Csernay
Multiple Displacements: National Socialist cultural policy and the Nell Walden Collection / Esther Tisa Francini
The Fascination with Iran in the 1930s Rudolf Schmidt and the collecting of the Luristan bronzes / Esther Tisa Francini
Split, Donate, and Export: Alice Boner's efforts to preserve her art collection in India and Switzerland / Johannes Beltz
Displaying
The Life Story of Chinese Bronzes / Alice Yu Cheng
Canonization and the Cult of Relics The Ardabil carpet and its remnant in Museum Rietberg / Axel Langer
From Stage to Museum: Modes of presentation for No masks / Khanh Trinh
The Werner Reinhart Collection and the Reception of Indian Miniature Paintings in Switzerland / Rosine Vuille
"Suspended before a white background, I exist." Photography and the creation of the canon of African art in the Global / North Namna Guyer
Dealing
Hayashi Tadamasa and the Creation of a Market for Japanese Art / Brigitte Koyama-Richard
C. T. Loo: Art dealer and cultural mediator / Alexandra von Przychowski
The Business of Art: Iconoclasm in Cote d'Ivoire and the trade practices of Swiss gallerist, Emil Storrer / Esther Tisa Francini
From Ritual Object to Work of Art: The routes of Tibetica to the museum / Martin Brauen
Fragmenting
Stories from the Edge: The reconstruction of Islamic painting and calligraphy albums with the help of borders / Axel hanger
Antoine-Louis Henri Polier in India Patron, collector, enlightened art lover? / Claire Brizon
Local and Global Trading of Pre-Hispanic Andean Textiles Insights into the collection / Cecilia Pardo
Buddha Heads and the Reception of Chinese Buddhist Art at the Beginning of the 20th Century / Alexandra von Przychowski
Market and Manipulation: The "beautification" of Chinese tomb pottery by art dealers / Alexandra von Przychowski
Knowing
From Stone Lake to Lake Zurich The 400-year journey of a Chinese painting / Kim Karlsson
Research That Gets under the Skin The role of conservation-restoration in object analysis / Axel hanger
The History of a Maya Relief: The tension between transfer of cultural property and knowledge production / Antje Grothe
A Collaboration in Art-Ethnography Haku Shah and Eberhard Fischer in Gujarat, 1965 to 1972 / Eberhard Fischer
When Instruments Sing Again: Collaborative research and exhibiting / Johannes Beltz.
Notes:
Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum Rietberg, Zürich, June 17, 2022-June 25, 2023.
Includes bibliographical references.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.
ISBN:
3039420976
9783039420971
OCLC:
1303554359
Publisher Number:
99992426438

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