Description |
1 online resource (xxxiii, 232 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Collecting Histories |
Contents |
Introduction / Arthur MacGregor -- Chapter abstracts -- Collecting nature within nature : animal inclusions in amber in early modern collections / Rachel King -- Collecting zoological rarities at the Medici court : real, stuffed and depicted beasts as cultural signs / Angelica Groom -- Wenzel Jamnitzer's mortar : life casting and court experimentalism in the 16th century / Virginie Spenlé -- Ornithology and collecting in the Dutch golden age : the collecting of exotica and captured specimens / Joy Kearney -- The birds in Mark Catesby's Natural history : collected, depicted, commodified / Shepard Krech III -- A princely plant collector in Renaissance Germany / Miriam Hall Kirch -- Collecting the painted Netherlands : the art collection of Archduke Ernest of Austria in Brussels / Ivo Raband -- The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg and circulation of objects at the early Royal Society of London, 1660-1677 / Iordan Avramov -- Carl Linnaeus and the natural history collections of Lovisa Ulrika of Sweden at Drottningholm Palace / Anne Harbers -- The early modern library as a site for collecting and display of scientific instruments / Inga Elmqvist Söderlund -- Epilogue and outlook: Collecting nature/archiving Eden / Dornith Doherty |
Summary |
Papers presented at an international conference, organized by the working group Collecting and Display, held at Schwabenakademie Irsee, Germany, in May 2013 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-210) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Environmentalism -- Economic aspects
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Environmentalism -- Decision making
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Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes, etc)
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The arts: general issues.
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Museology & heritage studies.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- General.
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Environmentalism -- Economic aspects
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Natural history museums
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Natural history museums -- Collection management
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Nature
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Nature (Aesthetics)
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Gáldy, Andrea M., editor
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Heudecker, Sylvia, 1969- editor.
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Schwabenakademie Irsee, host institution.
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Collecting and Display (Organization), organizer.
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ISBN |
1322889562 |
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9781322889566 |
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9781443875080 |
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1443875082 |
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