Museum materialities
Subtitle: objects, engagements, interpretations
By: edited by Sandra H. Dudley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780415492188; 9780415492171
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Museum materialities : objects, sense and feeling / Sandra H. Dudley; title: Photographs and history : emotion and materiality / Elizabeth Edwards; title: Remembering the dead by affecting the living : the case of a miniature model of Treblinka / Andrea Witcomb; title: Touching the Buddha : encounters with a charismatic object / Christopher Wingfield; title: Contemporary art : an immaterial practice? / Helen Pheby; title: The eyes have it : eye movements and the debatable differences between original objects and reproductions / Helen Saunderson, Alice Cruickshank and Eugene McSorley; title: Experiencing materiality in the museum : artefacts re-made / Alexander Stevenson; title: Virginia Woolf's glasses : material encounters in the literary/artistic house museum / Nuala Hancock; title: When ethnographies enter art galleries / Lydia Nakashima Degarrod; title: Engaging the material world : object knowledge and Australian journeys / Kirsten Wehner and Martha Sear; title: Watch your step : embodiment and encounter at Tate Modern / Helen Rees Leahy; title: Reconsidering digital surrogates : toward a viewer-orientated model of the gallery experience / Bradley L. Taylor; title: Dancing pot and pregnant jar? : on ceramics, metaphors and creative labels / Wing Yan Vivian Ting; title: Myth, memory and the senses in the Churchill Museum / Sheila Watson; title: Dreams and wishes : the multi-sensory museum space / Viv Golding; title: Making meaning beyond display / Chris Dorsett; title: Authenticity and object relations in contemporary performance art / Klare Scarborough; title: Afterword / Howard Morphy.