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Extreme Collecting : Challenging Practices for 21st Century Museums / ed. by J. C. H. King, Graeme Were.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857453631
  • 9780857453648
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Extreme Collecting: Dealing with Difficult Objects -- Part I: Difficult Objects -- 1. The Material Culture of Persecution: Collecting for the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum -- 2. Lyricism and Offence in Egyptian Archaeology Collections -- 3. Contested Human Remains -- 4. Extreme or Commonplace: The Collecting of Unprovenanced Antiquities -- 5. Unfit for Society? The Case of the Galton Collection at University College London -- Part II: Mass Produced -- 6. Knowing the New -- 7. The Global Scope of Extreme Collecting: Japanese Woodblock Prints on the Internet -- 8. Awkward Objects: Collecting, Deploying and Debating Relics -- 9. Great Expectations and Modest Transactions: Art, Commodity and Collecting -- Part III: Extreme Matters -- 10. Extremes of Collecting at the Imperial War Museum 1917–2009: Struggles with the Large and the Ephemeral -- 11. Plastics – Why Not? A Perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics -- 12. Time Capsules as Extreme Collecting -- 13. Canning Cans – a Brand New Way of Looking at History -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
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 collection policies in museums, which are inclusive of acquiring ‘difficult’ objects. Much of the book engages with the question of the limits to the practice of collecting as a means to think through the implementation of new strategies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Extreme Collecting: Dealing with Difficult Objects -- Part I: Difficult Objects -- 1. The Material Culture of Persecution: Collecting for the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum -- 2. Lyricism and Offence in Egyptian Archaeology Collections -- 3. Contested Human Remains -- 4. Extreme or Commonplace: The Collecting of Unprovenanced Antiquities -- 5. Unfit for Society? The Case of the Galton Collection at University College London -- Part II: Mass Produced -- 6. Knowing the New -- 7. The Global Scope of Extreme Collecting: Japanese Woodblock Prints on the Internet -- 8. Awkward Objects: Collecting, Deploying and Debating Relics -- 9. Great Expectations and Modest Transactions: Art, Commodity and Collecting -- Part III: Extreme Matters -- 10. Extremes of Collecting at the Imperial War Museum 1917–2009: Struggles with the Large and the Ephemeral -- 11. Plastics – Why Not? A Perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics -- 12. Time Capsules as Extreme Collecting -- 13. Canning Cans – a Brand New Way of Looking at History -- Notes on Contributors -- Index

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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 collection policies in museums, which are inclusive of acquiring ‘difficult’ objects. Much of the book engages with the question of the limits to the practice of collecting as a means to think through the implementation of new strategies.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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