Museums and the Future of Collecting - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0754630056 ISBN 13 : 9780754630050

Editeur : Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. Museums and the Future of Collecting 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. Museums and the Future of Collecting encourages museums to move away from the collecting of isolated tokens; to move beyond the collecting policy and to understand more clearly the intellectual function of what they do. Here examples are given from Australia, Sweden, Canada, Spain, Britain and Croatia which provide this intellectual understanding and many practical tools for evaluating a future collecting strategy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Simon J. Knell, University of Leicester, UK Simon Knell, Malcolm McLeod, Richard Dunn, Patricia Kell, Rebecca Duclos, Paul Martin, Gaynor Kavanagh, Zarka Vujic, Graham Dominy, Nicola Clayton, John Martin, Michael Taylor, Janet Owen, Linda Young, Anna Steen, Barbro Bursell, Maria Garcia, Carmen Chinea, Jose Farina, Jean-Marc Gagnon, Gerald Fitzgerald, Martin Wickham, Patricia Ainslie, James Fowler, Tomislav Sola.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0754630056
• ISBN 13: 9780754630050
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Éditeur: Knell Simon J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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