Extreme collecting
Subtitle: challenging practices for 21st century museums
By: edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780857453631; 9780857453648
Subjects: Museums; Acquisitions; Moral and ethical aspects; Collection management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The material culture of persecution : collecting for the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum / Suzanne Bardgett; title: Lyricism and offence in Egyptian archaeology collections / Stephen Quirke; title: Contested human remains / Jack Lohman; title: Extreme or commonplace : the collecting of unprovenanced antiquities / Kathy Walker Tubb; title: Unfit for society? : the case of the Galton Collection at UCL / Natasha McEnroe; title: Knowing the new / Susan Pearce; title: The global scope of extreme collecting : Japanese woodblock prints on the Internet / Richard Wilk; title: Awkward objects : collecting, deploying and debating relics / Jan Geisbusch; title: Great expectations and modest transactions : art, commodity and collecting / Henrietta Lidchi; title: Extremes of collecting at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2009 : struggles with the large and the ephemeral / Paul Cornish; title: Plastics - why not? : a perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics / Susan Lambert; title: Time capsules as extreme collecting / Brian Durrans; title: Canning cans, or, What you can do with tins : an interview with Robert Opie / J.C.H. King.