| Description |
xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Materializing culture |
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Materializing culture.
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| Contents |
Introduction : the physical past / Marius Kwint -- Prologue : from the museum of touch / Susan Stewart -- Materializing mourning : hair, jewellery and the body / Marcia Pointon -- Elizabeth Parker's 'sampler' : memory, suicide and the presence of the artist / Nigel Llewellyn -- Toys for girls : objects, women and memory in the Renaissance household / Marta Ajmar -- Modernism and memory : leaving traces / Gillian Naylor -- Souvenirs and forgetting : Walter Benjamin's memory-work / Esther Leslie -- The wand of fancy : the historical imagination of the Victorian tourist / Peter Mandler -- Embroidering the ties of empire : the Lord Grey banners / Jennifer E. Salahub -- The man who staged the empire : remembering Frank Lascelles in Sibford Gower, 1875-2000 / Deborah S. Ryan -- The construction of civic memory in early modern Norwich / Victor Morgan -- From the Arengario to the Lictor's axe : memories of Italian fascism / Tim Benton -- Photographs as objects of memory / Elizabeth Edwards -- The Titanic : an object manufactured for exhibition at the bottom of the sea / Tag Gronberg |
| Summary |
"This book examines the way that objects 'speak' to us through the memories that we associate with them. Instead of viewing the meaning of particular designs as fixed and given, by looking at the process of evocation the authors find an open and continuing dialogue between things, their makers and their consumers. This is not, however, to diminish the role of design in shaping human consciousness. The contributors do not view objects as blank carriers onto which humans project prior psychic dramas. Rather, they place crucial importance on the precise forms and materials, their social, economic and historic reasons for being, and the way that we interact with them through our senses. This book therefore studies the physical within the intellectual, directly testing the concept of material culture."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Design -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses.
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Material culture -- Congresses.
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Material culture -- Psychological aspects.
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Material culture.
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Memory -- Congresses.
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Memory.
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Symbolic anthropology -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Aynsley, Jeremy.
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Breward, Christopher, 1965-
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Kwint, Marius.
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| ISBN |
185973247X |
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1859732526 (paperback) |
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