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Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Were, Graeme, King, J. C. H. (Jonathan C. H.)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The material culture of persecution : collecting for the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum / Suzanne Bardgett
  • Lyricism and offence in Egyptian archaeology collections / Stephen Quirke
  • Contested human remains / Jack Lohman
  • Extreme or commonplace : the collecting of unprovenanced antiquities / Kathy Walker Tubb
  • Unfit for society? : the case of the Galton Collection at UCL / Natasha McEnroe
  • Knowing the new / Susan Pearce
  • The global scope of extreme collecting : Japanese woodblock prints on the Internet / Richard Wilk
  • Awkward objects : collecting, deploying and debating relics / Jan Geisbusch
  • Great expectations and modest transactions : art, commodity and collecting / Henrietta Lidchi
  • Extremes of collecting at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2009 : struggles with the large and the ephemeral / Paul Cornish
  • Plastics
  • why not? : a perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics / Susan Lambert
  • Time capsules as extreme collecting / Brian Durrans
  • Canning cans, or, What you can do with tins : an interview with Robert Opie / J.C.H. King.