Museums as cultures of copies : the crafting of artefacts and authenticity
Museums as cultures of copies
Bok · Engelsk · 2019
| Medvirkende | |
|---|---|
| Utgitt | London : Routledge , 2019
|
| Omfang | XIII, 274 s. : ill.
|
| Opplysninger | Part I. Copying and modelling.The art and science of replication : copies and copying in the multi-disciplinary museum / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti and four others -- Contact, copy and model in eighteenth-century Trondheim / Brita Brenna -- Documentation, representation, restoration : copying practises at Norsk Teknisk Museum / Olav Hamran -- Mainly making models : the scientific use of natural heritage collections / Henry McGhie -- Part II. Copying: mobility and instability. Lost continents, projective objects / Mari Lending -- Turkish Neo-Ottoman memory culture and the problems of copying the past / Gönül Bozoğlu and Christopher Whitehead -- Replica knowledge : travelling thrones / Felix Sattler and Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw -- Looking for originals in a museum of copies : the ambivalence of the Thorvaldsens Museum / Hans Dam Christensen -- Copying as museum branding : souvenirs with Edvard Munch's bedspread pattern / Joanna Iranowska -- Part III. Copying: Body, life and death. Ethnographic mannequins : copying as artefactualisation of human difference / Anne Folke Henningsen -- Constructing museum nature : photography and specimens in natural history museums around 1900 / Liv Emma Thorsen -- Faces of death : death masks in the museum / Ole Marius Hylland -- Part IV. Copying:Text as/of thing. Commonplaces, copies and copiousness / Anne Eriksen -- The proof of the original is the copying : heavenly chain letters / Siv Frøydis Berg -- Documenting museums objects : a practice of copying and a 'copious' practice? / Janne W. Olsrud -- Breaking the frames? The creation of digital curatorial agency at Swedish cultural history museums / Bodil Axelsson -- Towards a future museum of copying / Marcus Boon. - Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few discourses are as concerned with authenticity, aura, originals and provenance as those concerning exhibiting and collecting. So why is it that these are institutions, fields and discourses where copies proliferate and copying techniques have thrived for hundreds of years? Museums as Cultures of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today.With contributions from Europe and Canada, the book interrogates the meaning of copies and presents copying as a fully integrated part of museum work. Including chapters on ethnographic mannequins, digitalized photos, death masks, museum documentation and mechanical models, contributors consider how copying as a cultural form changes according to time and place and how new forms of copying and copy technologies challenge and expand museum work today. Arguing that copying is at the basis of museum practice and that new technologies and practices have been taken up and developed in museums since their inception, the book presents both heritage work and copies in a new light
|
| Emner | |
| Dewey | |
| ISBN | 978-0-8153-6491-7. - 978-1-351-10649-8
|