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1 online resource : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Notes -- References -- 1 Narratives of the 'Fetish' -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 2 Curating Interobjectively in Museums -- 'A Scientific Encounter': Envisaging the Myth of the Museum -- The Museum's Omniscience -- Presenting Objects in the Academy: The Poetics of Academic Space -- Towards an Interobjective Curatorial Practice: Exercises in Diplomacy -- The Collection as Collectivity-'How to Redefine the Collectives?' -- Three Scenes from an Exhibition: |
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Object Encounter #1: Kelly Richardson and Annibale Carracci -- Object Encounter #2: Murray Ballard and Anon. -- Object Encounter #3: Daniel Brown and Jan Breughel -- Notes -- 3 'A Readiness to Find What Surrounds Us Strange and Odd': Objects in the Alternative Curiosity Museum -- Museums: Laboratories of the Marvellous? -- Cabinets of Curiosities: 'Boudoirs Earmarked for Experts'? -- Museum of Jurassic Technology: A Detective Challenge -- Museum der Unerhörten Dinge: 'A Literary Wunderkammer' -- Wonder in the Face of Abundance or Wonder in the Face of Rarity? |
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The Alternative Curiosity Museum as 'Wild Museum' -- Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature: Wonder and Critical Awareness -- Château d'Oiron: Curiosity and Multisensory Engagement -- Curiosity as a Way of Seeing, Thinking and Caring -- Notes -- References -- 4 Art, Science and the Mutant Object -- The Live Specimen -- Mutant Objects -- Neither Animal, Nor Vegetable Nor Mineral -- Notes -- References -- 5 Blind Summit/Models of Subjectivity: Surrealism, Physics and Psychoanalysis -- Notes -- References -- 6 Glimpsed Phantoms of Sensation |
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Or, a Psychogeographical Investigation of Various Anatomical Specimens with Reference to Christine Borland's Cet être-là, c'est à toi de le créer! -- Notes -- References -- 7 ... as far back as I will remember -- Jardin des Plantes, Montpellier, South of France -- Call Me by My Name -- From Alexandria to Carthage -- Life's Rich Pageant -- Better Living through Chemistry -- Pansexuality -- I, post-specimen -- I, superspecies -- Living in the Homogecene -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- 8 Poetry and the Pathology Museum: A Model of Difference -- Notes -- References |
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9 The Scientist and the Magician -- Introduction -- A Compendium of Vignettes, or, Imagining-and Imaging-'Energy' -- Deus ex machina: From the Magic Lantern to the Layden Jar -- #1: A First Experiment-Imagining Electricity -- Reflecting upon the Presence of Magic in Artwork, and Artistry of Magic and Science: Some Inconclusive Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 10 Choosing, Unpicking and Connecting: On Drawing Museum Objects -- Choosing -- Unpicking -- Connecting -- Notes -- References |
| Summary |
Examines how scientific objects in museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practice, its histories, curating and aesthetics. Cross-disciplinary essays from leading arts professionals explore how scientific encounters in museums provoke new modes of creative thinking about art, science and curating. 84 col. illus. |
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Art and science.
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Art and science. |
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Art museums.
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Art museums. |
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Museum techniques.
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Museum techniques. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Juler, Edward, editor.
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Robinson, Alistair, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version : 9781789383119 |
| ISBN |
9781789383133 (electronic book) |
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1789383137 (electronic book) |
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9781789383119 |
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9781789383126 (PDF ebook) |
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1789383129 |
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1789383110 |
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