Museums as Cultures of Copies The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity
Heftet /
2020
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780367663292
Publisert
2020-09-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
720 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
274
Biographical note
Brita Brenna is Professor of Museology and Head of Centre for Museum Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Hans Dam Christensen is Professor of Cultural Communication at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Olav Hamran is Head of Research and Development, Arts Council Norway.
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.Museums as Cultures of Copies should be of great interest to academics, scholars and postgraduate students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, as well as visual studies, cultural history and archaeology. It should also be essential reading for museum practitioners.
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Museums and the Culture 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.
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Museums as cultures of copiesIntroductionBrita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen, Olav HamranSection I: ModelsSection 1 Introduction Chapter 1 - The Art and Science of Replication. Copies and Copying in the Multi-Disciplinary MuseumSamuel J.M.M. Alberti, Alice Blackwell, Peter Davidson, Martin Goldberg and Geoffrey N. SwinneyChapter 2 - Knowing with modelsBrita BrennaChapter 3 - Documenting, educating, recapturing – copying practices at the Norwegian Technical MuseumOlav HamranChapter 4 - Mostly making models: The Scientific Use of Natural Heritage CollectionsHenry McGhieSection II: Mobility and instabilitySection II IntroductionChapter 5 - Lost Continents, Projective ObjectsMari LendingChapter 6 - Turkish Neo-Ottoman memory culture and the problems of copying the past Gönül Bozoğlu and Christopher WhiteheadChapter 7 - Replica Knowledge: Travelling ThronesFelix Sattler & Anna Simandiraki-GrimshawChapter 8 - Looking for originals in a museum of copies? The ambivalence of the Thorvaldsens MuseumHans Dam ChristensenChapter 9 - Copying as Museum Branding: Souvenirs with Edvard Munch’s Bedspread PatternJoanna IranowskaSection III: Body, Life and deathSection III Introduction Chapter 10 - Ethnographic Mannequins: Copying as artefactualization of human differenceAnne Folke HenningsenChapter 11 - Constructing Museum Nature: Photography and Specimens in Natural History Museums around 1900Liv Emma ThorsenChapter 12 - Faces of death. Death masks in the museum Ole Marius HyllandSection IV: Text as/of thingSection IV Introduction Chapter 13 - Commonplaces, copies, and copiousness Anne EriksenChapter 14 - The proof of the original is in the copying: Heavenly chain lettersSiv Frøydis BergChapter 15 - Documenting museum objects: A practice of copying and a ‘copious’ practice?Janne Werner OlsrudChapter 16 - Breaking the frames? The creation of digital curatorial agency at Swedish cultural historical museums Bodil AxelssonChapter 17 - Towards a Future Museum of CopyingMarcus Boon
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"The variety of chapters from different times, places and disciplines adds something new, relevant and important to the ongoing discussion of the credibility of the museum as a modern institution within museum studies and the heritage field more broadly.[...] it achieves its objectives by extending understanding and appreciation of the culture of copies in museums while providing a rich resource that scholars and practitioners can use as a springboard for further research."-Gitte Westergaard, PhD candidate in the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages at the University of Stavanger
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780367663292
Publisert
2020-09-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
720 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
274
Biographical note
Brita Brenna is Professor of Museology and Head of Centre for Museum Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway.
Hans Dam Christensen is Professor of Cultural Communication at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Olav Hamran is Head of Research and Development, Arts Council Norway.