Museums and the Future of Collecting
Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting problem. One major concern is omission, whether this be determined by politics, professional ethics, the law or social agenda. How did curators collect during the war in Croatia? What were the problems of trying to collect the 'old' South Africa when the new one was born? Can museums collect from groups which seem to 'deviat…
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- ISBN: 978-1-351-91643-1
- EAN: 9781351916431
- Produktnummer: 22637180
- Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 280 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 11'437 KB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
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