Collectors And Curiosities
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Collectors And Curiosities
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Author : Krzysztof Pomian
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 1991-01-15
Collectors And Curiosities written by Krzysztof Pomian and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-01-15 with History categories.
This outstanding and highly original study examines the history of collecting in early modern Europe, and describes the myriad treasures, from paintings and antiques to religious relics, that found their way into the private collections and public museums of the time. The author looks at the types of people who formed collections, from the harmless eccentrics to the wily speculators, and examines what they collected and why. He develops a historical anthropology of collecting and sheds new light upon the genesis of the modern museum. Pomian charts the changes in fashion which characterised the world of collecting, arguing that such shifts can be seen as a sign of wider and more profound changes in mentality and can be analysed in terms of a conflict between aesthetic and historical sensibilities.
Curious Collectors Collected Curiosities
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Author : Janelle A. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2011-07
Curious Collectors Collected Curiosities written by Janelle A. Schwartz and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07 with Collectors and collecting categories.
This study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the 16th-century through today, it gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes.
Curiosities And Texts
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Author : Marjorie Swann
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2010-11-24
Curiosities And Texts written by Marjorie Swann and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
A craze for collecting swept England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Aristocrats and middling-sort men alike crammed their homes full of a bewildering variety of physical objects: antique coins, scientific instruments, minerals, mummified corpses, zoological specimens, plants, ethnographic objects from Asia and the Americas, statues, portraits. Why were these bizarre jumbles of artifacts so popular? In Curiosities and Texts, Marjorie Swann demonstrates that collections of physical objects were central to early modern English literature and culture. Swann examines the famous collection of rarities assembled by the Tradescant family; the development of English natural history; narrative catalogs of English landscape features that began to appear in the Tudor and Stuart periods; the writings of Ben Jonson and Robert Herrick; and the foundation of the British Museum. Through this wide-ranging series of case studies, Swann addresses two important questions: How was the collection, which was understood as a form of cultural capital, appropriated in early modern England to construct new social selves and modes of subjectivity? And how did literary texts—both as material objects and as vehicles of representation—participate in the process of negotiating the cultural significance of collectors and collecting? Crafting her unique argument with a balance of detail and insight, Swann sheds new light on material culture's relationship to literature, social authority, and personal identity.
The Origins Of Museums
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Author : Oliver Impey
language : en
Publisher: Ashmolean Museum Oxford
Release Date : 2017-06
The Origins Of Museums written by Oliver Impey and has been published by Ashmolean Museum Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06 with Collectors and collecting categories.
The Origins of Museums is an extensive account of the first great collections in late sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The collections, then called 'cabinets of curiosities', were the beginnings of museums as we now know them. The discovery of the New World saw a huge influx of exotic and rare exhibits arrive in from distant lands. These discoveries revolutionised the European view of the wider world. Scholars from all over the globe describe in thirty- three essays the achievements of numerous significant collectors, the range of material gathered and the impact these collections had on Late Renaissance society. With a comprehensive bibliography, the papers provide expert insight into this fascinating period of collecting history, a generally neglected subject.--Amazon.com
Passionate Curiosities
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Author : Lauren Elizabeth Talalay
language : en
Publisher: Kelsey Museum Publications
Release Date : 2015
Passionate Curiosities written by Lauren Elizabeth Talalay and has been published by Kelsey Museum Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Antiquities categories.
Passionate Curiosities explores the collections held in the University of Michigan's Kelsey Museum of Archaeology through the lens of the people whose intellectual interests, financial backing, and social networks brought artifacts to Ann Arbor from the 1880s to the 1990s. Through purchases and expeditions, these individuals shaped the Museum's internationally recognized antiquities from the ancient civilizations of Greece, Rome, North Africa, Egypt, and the Near East, extensive photographic documentation of these regions from the early 1900s, and significant assemblages of early Christian and Islamic visual culture. An intriguing array of personalities--from archaeologists, missionaries, and diplomats to industrialists, bankrollers, and inventors--weave through these pages. They include Ernst Herzfeld, the eminent Orientalist who helped forge antiquities legislation in Iran; Luigi Cesnola, the rapacious harvester of Cypriot sites; Esther Van Deman, the pioneering feminist and scholar of Roman construction techniques; and Samuel Goudsmit, the renowned nuclear physicist and avid Egyptologist. World-famous dealers who established standards in antiquities connoisseurship likewise populate these sagas. Readers will encounter Edgar J. Banks, a swashbuckling purveyor of Mesopotamian antiquities and entrepreneur of biblical documentary films; Maurice Nahman, the "lion of Cairo"; and the colorful members of the Tano dealer dynasty in Egypt. This copiously illustrated book will interest general readers as well as scholars curious about the holdings of the Kelsey, early collectors and dealers, and the history of museums.
Natural History Collector Hunt Discover Learn
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Author : Michael Sanchez
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-12-19
Natural History Collector Hunt Discover Learn written by Michael Sanchez and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-19 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Loaded with hands-on, kid-friendly projects, Natural History Collector: Hunt, Discover, Learn! is for budding naturalists and nature collectors. This book teaches techniques for cleaning, caring for, and displaying discovered treasures.
Morbid Curiosities
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Author : Paul Gambino
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2023-05-04
Morbid Curiosities written by Paul Gambino and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-04 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
A fascinating insight into the strange world of collectors of the macabre, Morbid Curiosities features 18 unique collections and an extensive interview with each collector, explaining how and why they collect, and showcasing the most remarkable pieces from each collection. The collections include skulls, mummified body parts, taxidermy, occult objects and various carnival, and side-show and criminal ephemera. Detailed captions tell the curious stories behind each object, many of which are being shown outside the private world of their collections for the first time. Morbid Curiosities includes stunning, specially commissioned photography of both the individual objects and the context of how the collector exhibits their work, forming a unique showcase of the bizarre and the intriguing.
Curiosity And Enlightenment
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Author : Arthur MacGregor
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Curiosity And Enlightenment written by Arthur MacGregor and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Art categories.
Offers a history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries, tracing its origins from the culture of collecting that emerged during the Renaissance, which served the purposes of both prestige and academic enquiry.
A Collection Of Curiosities
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1726
A Collection Of Curiosities written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1726 with Curiosities and wonders categories.
The Agassiz Journal For Curiosity Collectors
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1885
The Agassiz Journal For Curiosity Collectors written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1885 with Collectors and collecting categories.