Title Cabinet of Curiosities : Mark Dion and the University as Installation

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (148 pages) Contents Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Restaging the Cabinet of Curiosities; Contemporary Museums and the Cabinet of Curiosities; Cabinet of Curiosities; Student Curators Reflect on Cabinet of Curiosities; Cabinet of Curiosities Exhibition Checklist; University of Minnesota Collections Summary The richly illustrated essays in Cabinet of Curiosities records the creative processes behind an installation designed by contemporary artist Mark Dion at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, a collaboration of museum staff, students, and collection curators. Cabinet of Curiosities offers commentary on the ways in which collecting has undergirded the creation of knowledge within universities and in Western society Notes Print version record Subject Dion, Mark, 1961- -- Exhibitions Dion, Mark, 1961- University of Minnesota -- Exhibitions University of Minnesota Cabinets of curiosities -- Exhibitions Site-specific installations (Art) -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Exhibitions Museum techniques -- Exhibitions ART -- Individual Artists -- Monographs. ART -- Individual Artists -- Artists' Books. ART -- Individual Artists -- Essays. ART -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General. Cabinets of curiosities Museum techniques Site-specific installations (Art) Minnesota -- Minneapolis Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816696697 0816696691

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