Museums and the Future of Collecting

ISBN-13: 9781138452787 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017

Simon J. Knell

Opis

Collecting is a key function of museums. Its apparent simplicity belies a complexity of questions and issues which make all collecting imprecise and unrepresentative. This book exposes the many meanings of collections, the different perspectives taken by different cultures, and the institutional response to the collecting problem. It encourages museums to move away from the collecting of isolated tokens; to move beyond the collecting policy and to understand more clearly the intellectual function of what they do.

Recenzje

’...there is much that can be taken from this book and applied to the daily practice and philosophy of the whole range of museums...' Museum National '... the second edition of this book [...] is welcome and timely... this book should help bring collecting activity back up the museum agenda.' Museums Journal 'Museums and the Future of Collecting is produced in paperback at an affordable price; this should enable this volume of essays to feature on every curator's bookshelf, where it deserves to be.' Journal of the Society of Archivists

O autorze

Jerry C. Whitaker