Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (982 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0415492181 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 312 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Misleading. Emil Nilsson Had this as litterature in my higher level of museumstudies. It is an anthology that's basically been desperatly created by throwing together a mixed lot of articles written by artists, academics and mostly other non-museum workers. Only one article was actually written by museum curators, and that was also the only informative and interesting article in the book, it was actually about "museum materiality" which the other articles are not!After reading this book me and my class (of people studying museumstudies) concluded that the picture on the front was far more interesting than the books content, and further mor. "Enjoyable and Interesting" according to Anonymous. This small anthology explores the role of materiality within museums - beginning with the objects in the collection, to human engagements with the physicality of objects and architectural space, and finishing with how incorporation of materiality can enhance interpretation. Many of the essays examined the affect of the sensory stimulation - sight, touch, small, sound, and emotional feeling - on the human experience of objects, and objects in museums in particular. Additionally, considering the ways that sensory engagement creates meaning, symbolism, and memory that function as dialectic social relationships between
University of Leicester, UK
About the Author University of Leicester, UK
In so doing it makes a valuable and original addition to the literature of both material culture studies and museum studies.. This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. Bringing together essays by scholars and practitioners from a wide disciplinary and international base, Museum Materialities seeks to make just such a contribution. Museum Materialities is divided into three sections – Objects, Engagements and Interpretations – and includes a foreword by Susan Pearce and an afterword by Howard Morphy. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. Phenomenological and other approaches to embodied experience in an emphatically material world are current in a number of academic areas, most particularly strands of material culture studies within anthropology and cognate disciplines. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise questions about how objects carry meaning and feeling, the distinctions between objects and persons, particular qualities of the museum as context for person-object engagements, and the active and embodied role of the museum visitor. It examines materiality and other perceptual and ontological qualities of objects themselves; embo