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Museums, Objects, and Collections
This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological and social reasons that people collect and identifies three modes of collecting: collecting as souvenirs, as fetishes, and as systematic assemblages. She considers how museum professionals set policies of collection management; acquire, study, and exhibit objects; and make meaning of the objects in their care. Pearce also explores the ideological relationship between museums and their collections and the intellectual and social relationships of museums to the public.
On Collecting
Adopted on Leicester University Museum studies course Excellent reviews and good HB sales The author is extremely well qualified to write this book - 20 years in museums field and many years researching collecting Author is very well known in the museums and material cultures world
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories
This collection of essays explores the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, the authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and implications of collecting.
Art in Museums
Met bibliogr. - Met reg. Attention is given to past and contemporary problems of cultural representation and of the relationship between the artist, the museum and society. Explored are issues relating to audiences for art, and the role of galleries in these and other debates.
Interpreting Objects and Collections
This volume brings together for the first time the most significant papers on the interpretation of objects and collections and examines how people relate to material culture and why they collect things. The first section of the book discusses the interpretation of objects, setting the philosophical and historical context of object interpretation. Papers are included which discuss objects variously as historical documents, functioning material, and as semiotic texts, as well as those which examine the politics of objects and the methodology of object study. The second section, on the interpretation of collections, looks at the study of collections in their historical and conceptual context. Many topics are covered such as the study of collecting to structure individual identity, its affect on time and space and the construction of gender. There are also papers discussing collection and ideology, collection and social action and the methodology of collection study. This unique anthology of articles and extracts will be of inestimable value to all students and professionals involved in the interpretation of objects and collections.
Museums and Their Development: The European Tradition 1700-1900
This set gathers together books, pamphlets and articles on all forms of collecting, from paintings and antiquities to natural history specimens. It also traces foundations of collections from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
On Collecting
On Collectingexamines the nature of collecting both in Europe and among people living within the European tradition elsewhere. Susan Pearce looks at the way we collect and what this tells us about ourselves and our society. She also explores the psychology of collecting: why do we bestow value on certain objects and how does this add meaning to our lives? Do men and women collect differently? How do we use objects to construct our identity? This book breaks new ground in its analysis of our relationship to the material world.
Recollecting Collecting
Recollecting Collecting interrogates and illustrates the meaning and practical nature of film and media collections while considering the vast array of personal and professional motivations behind their assemblage.
