Museums and Biographies (eBook, ePUB)

Stories, Objects, Identities
Redaktion: Hill, Kate

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, with worldwide examples and from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

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 curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual biography and museum history, problematising individual biographies, institutional biographies, object biographies, and museums as biographies/autobiographies.
These articles offer new ways of thinking about museums and museum history, exploring how biography in and of the museum enrichesmuseum stories by stressing the inter-related nature of lives of people, objects and institutions as part of a dense web of relationships. Through their widely ranging research, the contributors demonstrate the value of thinkingabout the stories told in and by museums, and the relationships which make up museums; and suggest new ways of undertaking and understanding museum biographies.

Dr Kate Hill is Principal Lecturer in History at the University of Lincoln.

Contributors: Jeffrey Abt, Felicity Bodenstein, Alison Booth, Stuart Burch, Lucie Carreau, Elizabeth Crooke, Steffi de Jong, Mark Elliott, Sophie Forgan, Mariana Françozo, Laura Gray, Kate Hill, Suzanne MacLeod, Wallis Miller, Belinda Nemec, Donald Preziosi, Helen Rees Leahy, Linda Sandino, Julie Sheldon, Alexandra Stara, Louise Tythacott, Chris Whitehead, Anne Whitelaw

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 348
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781782044628
• Artikelnr.: 56407119

Autorenporträt

Kate Hill

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Museums and Biographies - telling stories about people,
things and relationships - Kate Hill A Show of Generosity: Donations and
the intimacy of display in the 'Cabinet des médailles et antiques' in Paris
from 1830 to 1930 - Felicity Bodenstein Introducing Mr Moderna Museet:
Pontus Hultén and Sweden's Museum of Modern Art - Stuart Burch Sydney
Pavière and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston - Laura Gray 'His
Best Successor': Lady Eastlake and the National Gallery - Julie Sheldon
Women, Museums and the Problem of Biography - Anne Whitelaw A Curatocracy:
Who and What is a V&A Curator? - Linda Sandino Significant Lives: telling
stories of museum architecture - Suzanne MacLeod Schinkel's Museums:
Collecting and displaying architecture in Berlin, 1844-1933 - Wallis Miller
Personifying the Museum: Incorporation and Biography in American Museum
History - Jeffrey Abt Making an Exhibition of Ourselves - Helen Rees Leahy
Institutional autobiography and the architecture of the art museum:
restoration and remembering at the National Gallery in the 1980s - Chris
Whitehead Classifying China: shifting interpretations of Buddhist bronzes
in Liverpool Museum, 1867-1997 - Louise Tythacott 'Dressed like an Amazon':
the transatlantic trajectory of a red feather coat - Mariana Francozo
Individual, collective and institutional biographies: The Beasley
collection of Pacific artefacts - Lucie Carreau Sculptural biographies in
an anthropological collection: Mrs Milward's Indian 'types' - Mark Elliott
Houses and Things: Literary House Museums as Collective Biography - Alison
Booth 'Keepers of the Flame': biography, science and personality in the
museum - Sophie Forgan National History as Biography: Alexandre Lenoir's
Museum of French Monuments - Alexandra Stara Autobiographical museums -
Belinda Nemec Who is History? The use of autobiographical accounts in
history museums - Steffi De Jong Community biographies: character,
rationale and significance - Elizabeth Crooke Endpiece: The Homunculus and
the Pantograph, or, Narcissus at the Met - Donald Preziosi