Curiosities Of Collecting
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Curious Collectors Collected Curiosities
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Author : Janelle A. Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2020-05-22
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 2020-05-22 with Art categories.
Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the sixteenth century through today, this book gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes. Each chapter appropriates the idea of a cabinet of curiosity in order to expand its boundaries of meaning and to complicate our understanding of the acts of display and observation. These chapters also demonstrate that collecting is a universal trope which nevertheless depends on time and place for its particular expressions. Whether the collection is made up of literary texts and criticism, visual art, including mechanical reproductions, taxidermy and photography, historical travelogues, museum exhibitions, blockbuster films, or airline in-flight briefing cards, it conveys an urgent relevance to our consumer age, in which information is abundant and attention is a commodity.
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.
Curiosities Of Collecting
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Author : Indiana University Regional Campus Hoosier Folklore Conference (South Bend, Ind)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
Curiosities Of Collecting written by Indiana University Regional Campus Hoosier Folklore Conference (South Bend, Ind) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Folklore categories.
A Collection Of Curiosities
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Author : Alice Cantrell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-10-30
A Collection Of Curiosities written by Alice Cantrell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-30 with categories.
An 8x10 sketchbook (for all ages!) for illustrating your own personal collection of curiosities! The pages of this perfect-bound (think coloring book) sketchbook are printed on a very nice 55 lb paper, but markers and paint WILL bleed through. Good old pencils and color pencils are the way to go! There is a brief history of curious collections and a "How to Use this Book" page, and then 98 pages of frames and containers with labels ready to be filled with your child's creativity. A Bit of History People have been collecting interesting objects and pieces of the natural world since the days of ancient Rome when the temples were used to house various treasures gathered from the far corners of the Roman Empire. In the 1400s, European explorers began to venture further beyond their borders as they entered what we now call the "Age of Exploration" (from the 1400s through the 1600s). On their travels, they collected samples from the new (to them) lands and when they returned, displayed them in "cabinets" (Which were small rooms, not the things with shelves and doors we think of now.) for all to view. These collections ranged from small ones that could be contained in a box or a cabinet to enormous collections that filled whole rooms (often called "wonder-rooms").
Collecting In A Consumer Society
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Author : Russell W. Belk
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 1995
Collecting In A Consumer Society written by Russell W. Belk and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
"With a new preface, this new paperback edition outlines the history of museum collecting from ancient civilizations to the present. It also looks at aspects of consumer culture - advertising, department stores, mass merchandising, consumer desire, and how this relates to the activity of collecting." --Book Jacket.
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.
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.
Art And Curiosity Cabinets Of The Late Renaissance
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Author : Julius von Schlosser
language : en
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Release Date : 2021-01-19
Art And Curiosity Cabinets Of The Late Renaissance written by Julius von Schlosser and has been published by Getty Research Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-19 with Art categories.
For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser’s book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now. This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser’s biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way.
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.
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