The Phantom Museum Make Sel Titles: And Henry Wellcome's Collection Of Medical Curiosities - Couverture souple

Olsen, Danielle; Hawkins, Hildi

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1861976186 ISBN 13 : 9781861976185

Editeur : Profile Books Ltd, 2003

Synopsis

New and innovative writing inspired by the medical, scientific and sometimes downright extraordinary contents of Henry Wellcome's remarkable museum. Within this unusual and arresting book is a powerhouse of imagination created by a dazzling array of the finest writers. The Phantom Museum offers personal responses by A. S. Byatt, Tobias Hill, Peter Blegvad, Hari Kunzru, Helen Cleary and Gaby Wood to the extraordinary and little-known collection of the businessman and philanthropist Sir Henry Wellcome. Wellcome was fascinated by anthropology and the history of medicine. By the time he died in 1936, he had built up one of the world's largest and most unusual museum collections. The objects Wellcome brought together range from the ancient to the magical, from the religious to the scientific. Beautiful, mysterious or bizarre, they all illuminate the history of human beings and their bodies. Playful, disturbing and thought-provoking by turns, The Phantom Museum combines text and images, fact and fiction, comment and imagination to consider how objects can be read depending on who views them and when. Published to coincide with a major new exhibition of Wellcome's collection, this is a lasting introduction to its wonders, and a remarkable collection of new and original writing.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Danielle Olsen is the curator of the exhibition Medicine Man.

Hildi Hawkins is the editor of things, a journal of new writing about objects, their pasts, presents and futures.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Profile Books Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1861976186
• ISBN 13: 9781861976185
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible