The Emergence of the Modern Museum

An Anthology of Nineteenth-Century Sources
Herausgeber: Siegel, Jonah

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Emergence of the Modern Museum, a unique compendium of original sources, presents a detailed and dynamic account of the development of the museum and its practices in Britain during a crucial period of formation. From poignant recollections of visits to stately homes to charged debates about the acquisition of the Elgin Marbles or the establishment of an Indian Museum; from early catalogue entries describing the curiosities discovered by Captain Cook to later ones organizing human skulls according to Darwinian principles-this volume offers a representative sample of the diverse, contentious, and often moving ideas that have shaped the modern institution. With original selections, thematic organization, and insightful critical apparatus, this collection makes newly available a wide range of material, including proposals for reform laid out in parliamentary papers, essays by influential theorists and curators, and firsthand accounts of museum-going in the popular press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 402
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 608g
• ISBN-13: 9780199733576
• ISBN-10: 0199733570
• Artikelnr.: 26624049

Autorenporträt

Jonah Siegel Siegel is Professor of English at Rutgers University and President of the Northeast Victorian Studies Association. He is the author of Haunted Museum: Longing, Travel, and the Art-Romance Tradition and Desire & Excess: The Nineteenth-Century Culture of Art.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chronology
Introduction
Part One: From Collection to Museum
1.: Private Collections
2.: Towards a Public Art Collection
3.: . The Public in the Museum
Part Two: Rationalizing the National Collections
4.: Art and the National Gallery
5.: . Natural History and the British Museum
6.: Pedagogy: South Kensington and the Provinces
7.: Reform and Psychology of Museum Attendance
8.: From Wonders to Signs: Anthropology and Archeology
9.: Exhibiting India
Glossary of Frequently Cited Collectors and Collections
Contributors and Witnesses
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index