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"Discovering Cook's collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cook's voyages ... The essays explore the history of the collections, their dispersal through the museums and private collections of Europe and the dif…
Discovering Cook's Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cook's voyages and contains essays by some of the world's leading and most innovative historians and anthropologists. The book celebrates the richness o…
Introduction: Thinking about museums -- Do museums need objects anymore? -- Objects of culture and cultural objects -- Where is the East? -- Where have all the grown-ups gone? -- The birth and the death of a museum -- Museums, public space, and civic identity.
Do museums still need objects?
by Conn, Steven
fromArts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
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Type: Book
Conn ranges across a wide variety of museum types--from art and anthropology to science and commercial museums--asking questions about the relationship between museums and knowledge, about the connection between culture and politics, about the role of museums in representing non…
Do museums still need objects?
by Conn, Steven
fromArts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
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Type: Book
Conn ranges across a wide variety of museum types--from art and anthropology to science and commercial museums--asking questions about the relationship between museums and knowledge, about the connection between culture and politics, about the role of museums in representing non…
Catalog published in conjunction with the exhibition, Divine Protection, Batak art of North Sumatra, held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 22-December 31, 1994.
"The surrealist object is an everyday item that takes on multiple associations by provoking the viewer's imagination. It also poses a specific challenge for some filmmakers who seek to apply surrealist ideas and approaches when making feature-length narrative films. In Reframing…