Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague - Couverture rigide

Adams, Julie

 
9789088906367: Museum, Magic, Memory: Curating Paul Denys Montague
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ISBN 10 : 908890636X ISBN 13 : 9789088906367
Editeur : Sidestone Press, 2019

Synopsis

In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacific Islands of New Caledonia in 1914, where he became fascinated with the culture of the local Kanak people. Returning to Cambridge at the outbreak of World War One, Montague deposited his journal and a collection of Kanak objects in the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and left to join the Royal Flying Corps. A talented artist, musician and member of Rupert Brooke's 'Neo-pagan' set, his promising career was cut short when his plane was shot down in Salonika in 1917.

Montague's research and the objects he collected lay untouched for a century. Their rediscovery brought these materials and the histories they contained to new life, opening up a range of contemporary connections between past and present, Britain and New Caledonia, Europeans and Kanak, the idea of the museum and the art of curation.

Museum, Magic, Memory explores the complex encounters between history, biography, museology and collecting that characterise the work of curation in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Part I
Introduction: Museum, Magic, Memory

Part II
Vignettes

Part III
Epilogue: Curating Paul Denys Montague

Acknowledgements
Bibliography
List of Figures

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À propos de l?auteur

Curator, Oceania, British Museum

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In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his travels in the South Pacific Islands of New Caledonia in 1914, where he became fascinated with the culture of the local Kanak people. Returning to Cambridge at the outbreak of World War One, Montague deposited his journal and a collection of Kanak objects in the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology and left to join the Royal Flying Corps. A talented artist, musician and member of Rupert Brooke's 'Neo-pagan' set, his promising career was cut short when his plane was shot down in Salonika in 1917.

Montague's research and the objects he collected lay untouched for a century. Their rediscovery brought these materials and the histories they contained to new life, opening up a range of contemporary connections between past and present, Britain and New Caledonia, Europeans and Kanak, the idea of the museum and the art of curation.

Museum, Magic, Memory explores the complex encounters between history, biography, museology and collecting that characterise the work of curation in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Part I
Introduction: Museum, Magic, Memory

Part II
Vignettes

Part III
Epilogue: Curating Paul Denys Montague

Acknowledgements
Bibliography
List of Figures

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Sidestone Press
Date d'édition
2019
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
908890636X
ISBN 13 
9789088906367
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
318
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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