Abstract: Introduction - what future collecting?. Part 1 Collecting in context: collections and collecting, Susan Pearce museums without collections - museum philosophy in West Africa, Malcolm Mcled the future of collectin - lessons from the past, Richard Dunn the Ashmolean Museum - a case study of 18th-century collecting, Patricia Kell the cartographies of collecting, Rebecca Duclos from curio to cultural document, Barbara Lawson contemporary popular collecting, Paul Martin. Part 2 Omissions and dilemmas: collecting from the era of memory, myth and delusion, Gaynor Kavanagh collecting in time of war, Zarka Vujic the politics of museum collecting in the old and the new South Africa, Graham Dominy folk devils in our midst? - collecting from deviant groups, Nicola Clayton all legal and ethical? - museums and the international market in fossils, John Martin what is in a museum? - the challenges of collecting policies at the National Museums of Scotland, Michael Taylor who is steering the ship? - museums and the archaeological fieldwork, Janet Owen. Part 3 Collectin futures: collecting - reclaiming the art, systematizing the technique, Linda Young Samdok - tools to make the world visible, Anna Steen professionalizing collecting, Barbra Bursell developing a collecting strategy for smaller museums, Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea, Jose Farina towards a national colllection strategy - reviewing existing holdings, Jean-Marc Gagnon and Gerald Fitzgerald deaccessioning as a collections management tool, Patricia Ainslie collecting live performance, James Fowler redefining collecting, Tomislav Sola.a
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-03-02
Language: en
Type: book
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