Museum Materialities

Offers information about objects and people in museums and galleries. This book addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. It is divided into three sections - Objects, Engagements, and Interpretations. It examines materiality and other perceptual and ontological qualities of objects themselves.

Autorentext

Sandra Dudley

Inhalt

Foreword 1. Introduction: Materiality And Matter Reality In The Museum Part I: Objects 2. The Eyes Have It: Eye Movements And The Debatable Differences Between Original Objects And Reproductions 3. Artefacts Re-Made 4. Touching The Buddha: An Extraordinary Object Demanding A Response 5. Photographs And History: Emotion And Materiality 6. Virginia Woolf's Glasses: Material Encounters In The Literary/Artistic House Museum 7. Using Objects To Remember The Dead And Affect The Living: The Case Of A Miniature Model Of Treblinka Part II: Engagements 8. Contemporary Sculpture: An Immaterial Practice 9. When Ethnographies Enter Art Galleries: Viewing Violence And Inhabiting Other's Beauty 10. Visitors, Bodies And Forms In Australian Journeys 11. Not Just Looking: Embodiment And Encounter In The Contemporary Art Museum 12. Playing With Museum Encounters: Art, Materiality And The Aesthetics Of Engagement 13. Perceptions Of Edinburgh: Weight, Vision And Movement In The Northern City Exhibition Part III : Interpretations 14. 'A Thing Is A Thing. Why Bother?' On A Sensory Interpretive Project Involving Chinese Ceramics 15. Churchill Re-Imagined: History, Memory And The Senses And The Modern Museum 16. Children Feeling Africa In The Museum 17. Beyond Display, Making Meaning 18. Beyond Words: Interpreting The Unspeakable? Afterword