The Lost Museum /anglais - Couverture souple

Justine, Rinnooy Kan

 
9789462625716: The Lost Museum /anglais
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 9462625719 ISBN 13 : 9789462625716
Editeur : Uitgeverij de Kunst, 2025

Synopsis

The year 1822 saw the opening of not one but two museums in the Mauritshuis. On the upper floor was the Royal Cabinet of Paintings. On the ground floor, over 10,000 objects from all over the world were exhibited in what was called the Royal Cabinet of Rarities. In 1883 the latter was removed from the building and its collection split up between the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the precursor of the Wereldmuseum in Leiden. The huge diversity of subject matter in the essays in this book captures the eclectic nature of the Cabinet: from an intriguing ivory Chinese puzzle ball to the formation of cultural stereotypes, from a two-metre-long model of Deshima to a hat that turns out not to have belonged to William of Orange after all. And was the Inuk in his kayak really a stuffed human being – or just a dummy? In 30 essays, experts discuss the Royal Cabinet of Rarities from a dizzying range of perspectives. Despite this diversity, certain recurrent themes stand out, such as nationalistic propaganda and myth-formation, a deeply embedded colonial Zeitgeist, and the effect of the skewed balance of power in international relations on the Cabinet’s collection.

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À propos de l?auteur

Justine Rinnooy Kan - Curator, Mauritshuis in Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands. Sheila Reda - Junior Curator, Mauritshuis in Den Haag (The Hague), The Netherlands. Martine Gosselink is General Director of the Mauritshuis. Before joining the Rijksmuseum, Gosselink was a partner and co-founder of the cultural collective De Nieuwe Collectie. Since 1995, she has worked on exhibitions, publications and cultural projects for museums in countries including the Netherlands, New York, Iran and Sri Lanka. In 1995, she completed her studies with Professor Ernst van der Wetering at the University of Amsterdam (17th-century art history).

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

The year 1822 saw the opening of not one but two museums in the Mauritshuis. On the upper floor was the Royal Cabinet of Paintings. On the ground floor, over 10,000 objects from all over the world were exhibited in what was called the Royal Cabinet of Rarities. In 1883 the latter was removed from the building and its collection split up between the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and the precursor of the Wereldmuseum in Leiden. The huge diversity of subject matter in the essays in this book captures the eclectic nature of the Cabinet: from an intriguing ivory Chinese puzzle ball to the formation of cultural stereotypes, from a two-metre-long model of Deshima to a hat that turns out not to have belonged to William of Orange after all. And was the Inuk in his kayak really a stuffed human being – or just a dummy? In 30 essays, experts discuss the Royal Cabinet of Rarities from a dizzying range of perspectives. Despite this diversity, certain recurrent themes stand out, such as nationalistic propaganda and myth-formation, a deeply embedded colonial Zeitgeist, and the effect of the skewed balance of power in international relations on the Cabinet’s collection.

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Éditeur
Uitgeverij de Kunst
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9462625719
ISBN 13 
9789462625716
Reliure
Broché
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
176
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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