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Friends of Interpretable Objects / Miguel Tamen.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2001Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674044210
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 121.68
LOC classification:
  • B824.17 ǂb T36 2001eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SENSIBLE ECONOMICS -- 2 ICONOCLASM -- 3 PRESERVATION -- 4 PERSONS -- 5 RIGHTS -- 6 BODIES -- 7 HOSTILITY TO INTERPRETATION -- 8 DEFERENCE -- NOTES -- INDEX
Summary: Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, he suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780674044210

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 SENSIBLE ECONOMICS -- 2 ICONOCLASM -- 3 PRESERVATION -- 4 PERSONS -- 5 RIGHTS -- 6 BODIES -- 7 HOSTILITY TO INTERPRETATION -- 8 DEFERENCE -- NOTES -- INDEX

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Tamen's concern is to show how inanimate objects take on life through their interpretation--notably, in our own culture, as they are collected and housed in museums. It is his claim that an object becomes interpretable only in the context of a "society of friends." Thus, he suggests, our inveterate tendency as human beings to interpret the phenomenal world gives objects not only a life but also a society.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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