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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Curating empire
Museums and the British imperial experience
by Sarah Longair, John McAleer
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of 'museum networks' in the British imperial context. Curating empire sheds new light on the relationship between museums, as repositories for objects and cultural institutions for conveying knowledge, and the politics of culture and the formation of identities throughout the British Empire.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJune 2016Curating empire
Museums and the British imperial experience
by Sarah Longair, Andrew Thompson, John McAleer, John Mackenzie
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the development of a variety of museums across the globe. Taken together, these contributions suggest that museums are not just sites for accessing history but need to be considered as historical sites of significance in themselves. Individual essays examine the work of curators in museums in Britain and the colonies, the historical display and interpretation of empire in Britain, and the establishment of 'museum networks' in the British imperial context. Curating empire sheds new light on the relationship between museums, as repositories for objects and cultural institutions for conveying knowledge, and the politics of culture and the formation of identities throughout the British Empire. ;
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2024Knowing COVID-19
The pandemic and beyond
by Des Fitzgerald, Fred Cooper
Knowing COVID-19 demonstrates how researchers in the humanities shone a light on some of the many hidden problems of COVID-19, in the very depths of the pandemic crisis. Drawing on eight COVID-19 research projects, the volume shows how humanities researchers, alongside colleagues in the clinical and life sciences, addressed some of the major critical unknowns about this new infectious disease - from the effects of racism to the risks of deploying shame; from how to design an effective instructional leaflet to how to communicate effectively to bus passengers. Across eight novel case studies, the book showcases how humanities research during a pandemic is not only about interpreting the crisis when it has safely passed, but how it can play a vital, collaborative and instrumental role as events are still unfolding.
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The ArtsAugust 2010Art, museums and touch
by Fiona Candlin, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon
Art, museums and touch examines conceptions and uses of touch within arts museums and art history. Candlin deftly weaves archival material and contemporary museology together with government policy and art practice to question the foundations of modern art history, museums as sites of visual learning, and the association of touch with female identity and sexuality. This remarkable study presents a challenging riposte to museology and art history that privileges visual experience. Candlin demonstrates that touch was, and still is, crucially important to museums and art history. At the same time she contests the recent characterisation of touch as an accessible and inclusive way of engaging with museum collections, and argues against prevalent ideas of touch as an unmediated and uncomplicated mode of learning. An original and wide-ranging enquiry, this book is essential reading for scholars and students of museum studies, art history, visual culture, disability, and for anyone interested in the cultural construction of the senses. ;
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2025Unburied
The true story of Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy
by Hannah Priest
The macabre tale of an eighteenth-century woman immortalised in folklore as the 'Manchester Mummy'. In 1835, the Manchester Natural History Society opened the doors of its museum. Taking pride of place in its collection were three mummies: one was Egyptian, one was Peruvian and one was a woman from Cheetham Hill. This is the first time the true story of Hannah Beswick, the so-called 'Manchester Mummy', has been told. Over the years, explanations for the Manchester Mummy have ranged from the chilling - Hannah's fear of being buried alive - to the downright bizarre - the legend of her buried gold - but the truth is more complex. Exploring this fascinating episode from museum history, Unburied sheds light on the Victorian turn to the macabre and changing attitudes to the display of human remains. It debunks the legends and asks what Hannah Beswick can tell us about death and dying, mummies and museums.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceAugust 2022Dividing the spoils
Perspectives on military collections and the British empire
by Henrietta Lidchi, Stuart Allan
At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the motivations and circumstances whereby collections were appropriated and acquired during colonial military service. Combining approaches from the fields of material anthropology, imperial and military history, this book argues for a deeper examination of these collections within a range of intercultural histories that include alliance, diplomacy, curiosity and enquiry, as well as expropriation and cultural hegemony. As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, Dividing the Spoils explores how the amassing of objects was understood and governed in British military culture, and considers how objects functioned in museum collections thereafter, suggesting new avenues for sustained investigation in a controversial, contested field.
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The ArtsNovember 2017Vivien Leigh
Actress and icon
by Kate Dorney, Maggie B. Gale
This edited volume provides new readings of the life and career of iconic actress Vivien Leigh (1913-67), written by experts from theatre and film studies and curators from the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. The collection uses newly accessible family archives to explore the intensely complex relationship between Vivien Leigh's approach to the craft of acting for stage and screen, and how she shaped, developed and projected her public persona as one of the most talked about and photographed actresses of her era. With key contributors from the UK, France and the US, chapters range from analyses of her work on stage and screen to her collaborations with designers and photographers, an analysis of her fan base, her interior designs and the 'public ownership' of Leigh's celebrity status during her lifetime and beyond.
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Humanities & Social SciencesMay 2022The pastor in print
Genre, audience, and religious change in early modern England
by Amy G. Tan
The pastor in print explores the phenomenon of early modern pastors who chose to become print authors, addressing ways authorship could enhance, limit or change clerical ministry and ways pastor-authors conceived of their work in parish and print. It identifies strategies through which pastor-authors established authorial identities, targeted different sorts of audiences and strategically selected genre and content as intentional parts of their clerical vocation. The first study to provide a book-length analysis of the phenomenon of early modern pastors writing for print, it uses a case study of prolific pastor-author Richard Bernard to offer a new lens through which to view religious change in this pivotal period. By bringing together questions of print, genre, religio-politics and theology, the book will interest scholars and postgraduate students in history, literature and theological studies, and its readability will appeal to undergraduates and non-specialists.
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Teaching, Language & ReferenceNovember 2022Stories from small museums
by Fiona Candlin, Toby Butler, Jake Watts
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The ArtsSeptember 2009Nature and culture
Objects, disciplines and the Manchester Museum
by Samuel J. M. M. Alberti
This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of the object in the modern world. Beginning with the origins of the Manchester Museum, accounting for its development as an internationally renowned university museum, and concluding at its major expansion at the turn of the millennium, this book casts new light on the history of museums. How did objects become knowledge? Who encountered museum objects on their way to museums? What happened to collections within the museum? How did visitors use and respond to objects? In answering these questions, Nature and culture illuminates not only the history of one institution, but also contributes to wider discussions in the history of science, cultural history and museology. ;
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The ArtsSeptember 2012Performing heritage
Research, practice and innovation in museum theatre and live interpretation
by Anthony Jackson, Jenny Kidd
Performing Heritage is the first book to bring together the range of voices, debates and practices that constitute the fields of museum theatre and live interpretation. Inspiring and challenging in its scope and level of debate, Performing Heritage crosses the disciplines of performance and museum/heritage studies and offers remarkable and timely insights into the processes, outcomes and potential of this rich and rapidly developing practice - and in a variety of international contexts. The book productively brings together academic research and professional practice, and will be essential reading for all those interested in, and concerned with the future of, 'heritage' and its interpretation. ;
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January 1963Jahrbuch der Sammlung Kippenberg. Neue Folge. Herausgegeben vom Vorstand der Anton und Katharina Kippenberg-Stiftung. Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf
Erster Band:
by Hellmuth Maltzahn
Vorwort / Hellmuth von Maltzahn: Vierzehn Briefe Goethes an Kräuter / Jörn Göres: Zwei unveröffentlichte Goethe-Bildnisse / Edwin Redslob, Carl Holdermann / Walter Salmen: Goethe und Reichardt / Irmgard Kräupl, Zelter-Bildnisse / Dora Wahl, Goethe und Zelter / Ernst Schulte Strathaus: Der Sokratische Philolog / Dorothea Streller: Achim von Arnim und ›Auch ein Faust‹ / Jörn Göres: Jacob und Wilhelm Grimms Brief vom 9. Mai 1816 an Bettina von Arnim / Elisabeth Genton: Ein Brief Ludwig Tiecks über die nachgelassenen Schriften von Lenz / Maria Gräfin Lanckoronska, ›Das Landleben‹ von Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld / Hans Herbert Möller: Jagd um Weimar / Lothar Frede: Münzbelustigungen im Düsseldorfer Goethe-Museum / Irene Markowitz: Die Baugeschichte des Hofgärtnerhauses und Goethe-Museums Düsseldorf Tafel I – XXX
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October 2006Heimat und Exil
Emigration der deutschen Juden nach 1933
by Stiftung Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Stiftung Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Flucht, Vertreibung und Neuanfang der deutschen Juden nach 1933 sind das Thema einer großen Ausstellung des Jüdischen Museums Berlin in Kooperation mit dem Haus der Geschichte in Bonn. Erstmals wird der erzwungene Exodus der deutschen Juden in weltweit über hundert Länder in einer Gesamtschau vor Augen geführt. Der reich illustrierte Begleitband ist wie die Ausstellung biographisch ausgerichtet. Dokumentiert werden vielfältige Flucht- und Lebenswege, die von Deutschland aus bis nach Shanghai oder in die Dominikanische Republik führten und, nach 1945, in einzelnen Fällen auch wieder zurück. Wo konnten die Emigranten unter welchen Bedingungen Zuflucht finden? Wie hat sich ihr Leben in den Zufluchtsländern gestaltet? Unterschiedliche Facetten der Exilerfahrung sowie der emotionalen und geographischen Verortung von »Heimat« werden in den Blick genommen. Zudem wird in einem gesonderten Teil jedes der über hundert Transit- und Aufnahmeländer aus der Perspektive der Emigranten vorgestellt – dieser historische Atlas eröffnet einen einzigartigen Zugang zu der vor über siebzig Jahren sich begründenden deutsch-jüdischen Diaspora in aller Welt.
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The ArtsJanuary 2012Art, ethnography and the life of objects
Paris, c.1925–35
by Julia Kelly, Marsha Meskimmon, Shearer West, Tim Barringer
In the 1920s and 1930s, anthropology and ethnography provided new and striking ways of rethinking what art could be and the forms which it could take. This book examines the impact of these emergent disciplines on the artistic avant-garde in Paris. The reception by European artists of objects arriving from colonial territories in the first half of the twentieth century is generally understood through the artistic appropriation of the forms of African or Oceanic sculpture. The author reveals how anthropological approaches to this intriguing material began to affect the ways in which artists, theorists, critics and curators thought about three-dimensional objects and their changing status as 'art', 'artefacts' or 'ethnographic evidence'. This book analyses texts, photographs and art works that cross disciplinary boundaries, through case studies including the Dakar to Djibouti expedition of 1931-33, the Trocadéro Ethnographic Museum, and the two art periodicals Documents and Minotaure. Through its interdisciplinary and contextual approach, it provides an important corrective to histories of modern art and the European avant-garde. ;
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October 1983Jahrbuch der Sammlung Kippenberg. Herausgegeben vom Vorstand der Anton-und-Katharina-Kippenberg-Stiftung. Goethe-Museum Düsseldorf
Vierter Band:
by Anton-und-Katharina-Kippenberg-Stiftung
Vorwort / Wolfgang Frhr. von Löhneysen: Goethes Kunstgeschichte / Ursula Rautenberg: Briefe des Grafen Cajus zu Stolberg-Stolberg an Johann Friedrich Heinrich Schlosser / Jost Schneider: Charlotte von Schadows Tagebuch einer Reise durch Italien 1830/31/ Thomas C. Starnes: Goethe und sein Haus. Aus zwei Weimarer Tagebüchern / Ingrid Strohschneider-Kohrs: Vielfache Reflexion. Anmerkungen zu einigen späten Goethe-Briefen / Abbildungen / Erich Trunz: Zelters Grundriß-Skizzen des Goethe-Hauses am Frauenplan / Hans Tümmler: Die Briefe Carl Augusts von Weimar an Sophie von Coudenhove, 1787-1799 / Irmgard Kräupl, Christina Kroll, Hartmut Schmidt, Neuerwerbungen des Goethe-Museums Düsseldorf 1975-1981 / Jörn Göres: Worte, vor der Fürstengruft zu Weimar gesprochen
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