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Museums and biographies : stories, objects, identities /
"Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography -- of individuals, objects and institutions -- in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY :
The Boydell Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Heritage matters series ;
volume 9. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Individual Biography and Museum History
- 1. A Show of Generosity: Donations and the Intimacy of Display in the C̀abinet des medailles et antiques' in Paris from 1830 to 1930 / Felicity Bodenstein
- 2. Introducing Mr Moderna Museet: Pontus Hulten and Sweden's Museum of Modern Art / Stuart Burch
- 3. Sydney Paviere and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston / Laura Gray
- Problematising Individuals' Biographies
- 4. H̀is Best Successor': Lady Eastlake and the National Gallery / Julie Sheldon
- 5. Women, Museums and the Problem of Biography / Anne Whitelaw
- 6. A Curatocracy: Who and What is a V & A Curator? / Linda Sandino
- Institutional Biographies
- 7. Significant Lives: Telling Stories of Museum Architecture / Suzanne MacLeod
- 8. Schinkel's Museums: Collecting and Displaying Architecture in Berlin, 1844-1933 / Wallis Miller
- 9. Personifying the Museum: Incorporation and Biography in American Museum History / Jeffrey Abt
- 10. Making an Exhibition of Ourselves / Helen Rees Leahy
- 11. Institutional Autobiography and the Architecture of the Art Museum: Restoration and Remembering at the National Gallery in the 1980s / Christopher Whitehead
- Object Biographies
- 12. Classifying China: Shifting Interpretations of Buddhist Bronzes in Liverpool Museum, 1867-1997 / Louise Tythacott
- 13. D̀ressed like an Amazon': The Transatlantic Trajectory of a Red Feather Coat / Mariana Francozo
- 14. Individual, Collective and Institutional Biographies: The Beasley Collection of Pacific Artefacts / Lucie Carreau
- 15. Sculptural Biographies in an Anthropological Collection: Mrs Milward's Indian T̀ypes' / Mark J. Elliott
- Museums as Biography
- 16. Houses and Things: Literary House Museums as Collective Biography / Alison Booth
- 17. K̀eepers of the Flame': Biography, Science and Personality in the Museum / Sophie Forgan
- 18. National History as Biography: Alexandre Lenoir's Museum of French Monuments / Alexandra Stara
- Museums as Autobiography
- 19. Autobiographical Museums / Belinda Nemec
- 20. Who is History? The Use of Autobiographical Accounts in History Museums / Steffi de Jong
- 21. Community Biographies: Character, Rationale and Significance / Elizabeth Crooke.