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Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums / edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King.

Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums / edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King.
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ISBN 9780857453631 (hardback)
Title Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums / edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King.
Publisher and/or associated date/s New York : Berghahn Books, 2012.
Description x, 238 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Note "By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally acceptable practice, this book debates the practice of collecting 'difficult' objects, from a historical and contemporary perspective; and discusses the acquisition of objects related to war and genocide, and those purchased from the internet, as well as considering human remains, mass produced objects and illicitly traded antiquities. " - Back cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1.The material culture of persecution : collecting for the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum / Suzanne Bardgett -- 2. Lyricism and offence in Egyptian archaeology collections / Stephen Quirke -- 3. Contested human remains / Jack Lohman -- 4. Extreme or commonplace : the collecting of unprovenanced antiquities / Kathy Walker Tubb -- 5. Unfit for society? : the case of the Galton Collection at UCL / Natasha McEnroe -- 6. Knowing the new / Susan Pearce -- 7. The global scope of extreme collecting : Japanese woodblock prints on the Internet / Richard Wilk -- 8. Awkward objects : collecting, deploying and debating relics / Jan Geisbusch -- 9. Great expectations and modest transactions : art, commodity and collecting / Henrietta Lidchi -- 10. Extremes of collecting at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2009 : struggles with the large and the ephemeral / Paul Cornish -- 11. Plastics -- why not? : a perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics / Susan Lambert -- 12. Time capsules as extreme collecting / Brian Durrans -- 13. Canning cans - a brand new way of looking at history : an interview with Robert Opie / J.C.H. King.
Subjects Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects
Museums -- Collection management
Museum exhibits -- Moral and ethical aspects
Other Authors &/or Associated Persons Were, Graeme (editor of compilation.)
King, J. C. H. (Jonathan C. H.) (editor of compilation.)
Call number 069.5 EXT
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