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Collecting The World
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Author : James Delbourgo
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Collecting The World written by James Delbourgo and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Hans Sloane was a young doctor from Northern Ireland who made his way in London and eventually become physician to the king and much of London society. In his youth he made a defining visit to Jamaica, where he began collecting 'curiosities' of all kinds. He eventually became the centre of a worldwide network which allowed him to assemble the collections which became the core of the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the British Library. This is the first major biography of Sloane in 60 years. It explores not just the impact of an extraordinary man, but allows us a window onto the moment when the meaning of collections and collecting changed.
Collecting The World
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Author : James Delbourgo
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2017-07-03
Collecting The World written by James Delbourgo and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-03 with Art categories.
In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public—the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few curbs on his passion for collecting the world.
Collecting China
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Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2011
Collecting China written by Vimalin Rujivacharakul and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.
Archives Museums And Collecting Practices In The Modern Arab World
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Author : Sonja Mejcher-Atassi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Archives Museums And Collecting Practices In The Modern Arab World written by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Art categories.
Collecting has a long tradition in the Middle East but the museum as a public institution is relatively new. Today there are national museums for antiquities in most Arab countries. While in some cases the political and social climate has hindered the foundation of museums, with existing collections even destroyed at times, the recent museum boom in the Gulf States is again changing the outlook. This unique book is the first to explore collecting practices in archives and museums in the modern Arab world, featuring case studies of collecting practices in countries ranging from Egypt and Lebanon to Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and the Gulf, and providing a theoretical and methodological basis for future research. The authors are also concerned with investigating the relationship between past and present, since collecting practices tell us a great deal not only about the past but also about the ways we approach the past and present conceptions of our identities. Collections can be textual as well, as in the stories, memories or events selected, recalled, and retold in the pages of a text. As interest in memory studies as well as popular and visual culture grows in the Arab World, so collecting practices are at the heart of any critical approach to the past and the present in that region. The book will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of the modern Arab world but also to professionals in museums and collections in the region, as well as around the world.
Slightly Foxed But Still Desirable
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Author : Ronald Searle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
Slightly Foxed But Still Desirable written by Ronald Searle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
The catalogues of antiquarian booksellers are written in a parallel language which can fool anyone not initiated into the mysteries of its complexities. After a lifetime of scanning these codes Ronald Searle has become an expert in decoding those poetic, exotic and usually approximate descriptions. InSlightly Foxed he offers his own guide to foiling the devious schemes of wicked booksellers forever.
Little Big World
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Author : Jeffrey Hammond
language : en
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date : 2010-04-15
Little Big World written by Jeffrey Hammond and has been published by University of Iowa Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-15 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
"Collections are more about who one is than about what is collected. In Little Big World, Jeffrey Hammond's resonant 1950Æs inner child speaks through the reflective sixty-something man about the culture and magic of a spectrum of action figure playsets through a lifetime."ùMarilynn Gelfman Karp, author, In Flagrante Collecto
Museum Archetypes And Collecting In The Ancient World
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Author : Maia Wellington Gahtan
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2015-03-20
Museum Archetypes And Collecting In The Ancient World written by Maia Wellington Gahtan and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-20 with History categories.
Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World offers the first general overview of the reasons why ancient civilizations from Archaic Greece to the Early Christian period amassed objects and displayed them together in public, private and imaginary contexts.
William Hunter S World
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Author : Mr Mungo Campbell
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2015-09-28
William Hunter S World written by Mr Mungo Campbell and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-09-28 with Art categories.
Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collection is the foundation of Scotland's oldest public museum, The Hunterian, until now there has been no comprehensive examination in a single volume of all his collections in their diversity. This volume comprises essays by international specialists and are as diverse as Hunter's collections themselves, dealing as they do with material that ranges from medical and scientific specimens, to painting, prints, books and manuscripts, and includes a special feature of links to the Hunterian's web pages and on-line databases. Locating Hunter's collecting within the broader context of his age and environment, this book provides an original approach to a man and collection whose importance has yet to be comprehensively assessed.
Naturalists In The Field
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2018-04-24
Naturalists In The Field written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-24 with Science categories.
Through the personal narratives those who have struggled over the past five centuries and more to comprehend and to document the natural world, the progress of natural history from speculative pursuit to systematic science is here explored, contextualized and illustrated.
The World Book Encyclopedia
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
The World Book Encyclopedia written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Encyclopedias and dictionaries categories.
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.