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      Museum Materialities book

      Objects, Engagements, Interpretations

      Museum Materialities

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      Museum Materialities book

      Objects, Engagements, Interpretations
      Edited BySandra Dudley
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2010
      eBook Published 16 August 2013
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203523018
      Pages 312
      eBook ISBN 9780203523018
      Subjects Arts, Museum and Heritage Studies, Social Sciences
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      Dudley, S. (Ed.). (2010). Museum Materialities: Objects, Engagements, Interpretations (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203523018

      ABSTRACT

      This is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. 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.

      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 examines materiality and other perceptual and ontological qualities of objects themselves; embodied sensory and cognitive engagements – both personal and across a wider audience spread – with particular objects or object types in a museum or gallery setting; notions of aesthetics, affect and wellbeing in museum contexts; and creative and innovative artistic and museum practices that seek to illuminate or critique museum objects and interpretations.

      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. Thus far, however, there has been no concerted application of this kind of approach to museum collections and interactions with them by museum visitors, curators, artists and researchers. Bringing together essays by scholars and practitioners from a wide disciplinary and international base, Museum Materialities seeks to make just such a contribution. In so doing it makes a valuable and original addition to the literature of both material culture studies and museum studies.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter 1|18 pages

      Museum materialities: objects, sense and feeling

      BySANDRA H. DUDLEY

      part |2 pages

      Part 1 Objects

      chapter 2|18 pages

      Photographs and history: emotion and materiality

      ByELIZ ABETH EDWARDS

      chapter 3|14 pages

      Remembering the dead by aecting the living: the case of a miniature model of Treblinka

      ByANDREA WITCOMB

      chapter 4|18 pages

      Touching the Buddha: encounters with a charismatic object

      ByCHRISTOPHER WINGFIELD

      chapter 5|18 pages

      Contemporary art: an immaterial practice?

      ByHELEN PHEBY

      chapter 6|10 pages

      e eyes have it: eye movements and the debatable dierences between original objects and reproductions

      ByHELEN SAUNDERSON, ALICE CRUICKSHANK AND EUGENE McSORLEY

      part |4 pages

      Part 2 Engagements

      chapter 7|11 pages

      Experiencing materiality in the museum: artefacts re-made

      ByALEXANDER STEVENSON

      chapter 8|14 pages

      Virginia woolf ’s glasses: material encounters in the literary/artistic house museum NUAL A HANCOCK

      chapter 9|15 pages

      When ethnographies enter art galleries

      ByLYDIA NAKASHIMA DEGARROD

      chapter 10|19 pages

      Engaging the material world: object knowledge and Australian Journeys

      ByKIRSTEN WEHNER, MARTHA SEAR

      chapter 11|13 pages

      Watch your step: embodiment and encounter at Tate Modern

      ByHELEN REES LEAHY

      chapter 12|10 pages

      Reconsidering digital surrogates: toward a viewer-orientated model of the gallery experience

      ByBRADLEY L. TAYLOR

      part |4 pages

      Part 3 Interpretations

      chapter 13|15 pages

      Dancing pot and pregnant jar? On ceramics, metaphors and creative labels

      ByWING YAN VIVIAN TING

      chapter 14|20 pages

      Myth, memory and the senses in the Churchill Museum SHEIL A WATSON

      chapter 15|17 pages

      Dreams and wishes: the multi-sensory museum space

      ByVIV GOLDING

      chapter 16|19 pages

      Making meaning beyond display

      ByCHRIS DORSET T

      chapter 17|15 pages

      Authenticity and object relations in contemporary performance art

      ByKL ARE SCARBOROUGH
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