Cabinets For The Curious

Author : Ken Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351953597

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Cabinets for the Curious by Ken Arnold Pdf

The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set about gathering objects and founding museums to further their enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern museum management.

Author : Julius von Schlosser
Publisher : Getty Research Institute
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781606066799

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Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance by Julius von Schlosser Pdf

For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser’s book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now. This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser’s biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way.

Author : Gordon Grice
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780761189374

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Cabinet of Curiosities by Gordon Grice Pdf

Exactly the book for every young explorer who loves finding stuff in nature and bringing it home. Cabinet of Curiosities is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the wonders of natural history and the joys of being an amateur scientist and collector. Nature writer Gordon Grice, who started his first cabinet of curiosities at age six when he found a skunk’s skull, explains how scientists classify all living things through the Linnaeus system; how to tell real gold from fool’s gold; how to preserve butterflies, crab shells, feathers, a robin’s egg, spider specimens, and honeycombs; how to identify seashells; the difference between antlers and horns; how to read animal tracks. And then, what to do with your specimens, including how to build a cabinet of curiosities out of common household objects, like a desk organizer or a box for fishing tackle.

Author : Frank H. Stauffer
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4057664593429

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The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious by Frank H. Stauffer Pdf

"The Queer, the Quaint, and the Quizzical: A Cabinet for the Curious" is a collection of oddities, wonders, superstitions, and curiosities from different eras and cultures. This book presents a diverse array of topics, including unusual customs, bizarre beliefs, strange phenomena, and curious inventions. With a blend of humour, philosophy, and historical insights, this book explores the mysteries and eccentricities of human nature. It contains topics related to moon dials, sacred pins, shooting stars, or books with unpronounceable names.

Author : Mark Thurner,Juan Pimentel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 190885782X

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New World Objects of Knowledge by Mark Thurner,Juan Pimentel Pdf

Author : N. D. Wilson
Publisher : Yearling
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2008-12-23
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780375838828

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100 Cupboards (100 Cupboards Book 1) by N. D. Wilson Pdf

Readers who love Percy Jackson, the Unwanteds, and Beyonders will discover that 100 cupboards mean 100 opportunities for adventure! The bestselling and highly acclaimed 100 Cupboards series starts here. What dangers are locked behind the cupboard doors? Henry isn’t brave, but when he hears a thumping and scratching on the other side of his bedroom wall, he can’t ignore it. He scrapes off the plaster and discovers mysterious doors—cupboards of all different shapes and sizes. Through one he sees a glowing room and a man strolling back and forth. Through another he sees only darkness and feels the cold sense that something isn’t right. When his cousin Henrietta boldly travels into the worlds beyond the cupboards, it’s up to Henry to follow her. Now that he’s opened the doors, can he keep the evil inside from coming through? “A must-read series.” —The Washington Post

Author : Sherry Petersik,John Petersik
Publisher : Artisan
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-14
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9781579656768

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Young House Love by Sherry Petersik,John Petersik Pdf

This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.

Author : Craig Robertson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452963723

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The Filing Cabinet by Craig Robertson Pdf

The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information. Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world.

Author : Elsa Hart
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250142825

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The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne by Elsa Hart Pdf

Winner of the Mary Higgins Clark Award One of Publishers Weekly’s Top Ten Fall Mysteries Minneapolis Star Tribune’s Summer Reading List One of The Washington Post’s Five New Thrillers & Mysteries for the Beach One of Amazon’s Best of the Month One of Christian Science Monitor’s Ten Best Books of the Month One of LitHub’s Five Books You May Have Missed This Month From the author of the acclaimed Li Du novels comes Elsa Hart's new atmospheric mystery series. London, 1703. In a time when the old approaches to science coexist with the new, one elite community attempts to understand the world by collecting its wonders. Sir Barnaby Mayne, the most formidable of these collectors, has devoted his life to filling his cabinets. While the curious-minded vie for invitations to study the rare stones, bones, books, and artifacts he has amassed, some visitors come with a darker purpose. For Cecily Kay, it is a passion for plants that brings her to the Mayne house. The only puzzle she expects to encounter is how to locate the specimens she needs within Sir Barnaby’s crowded cabinets. But when her host is stabbed to death, Cecily finds the confession of the supposed killer unconvincing. She pays attention to details—years of practice have taught her that the smallest particulars can distinguish a harmless herb from a deadly one—and in the case of Sir Barnaby’s murder, there are too many inconsistencies for her to ignore. To discover the truth, Cecily must enter the world of the collectors, a realm where intellect is distorted by obsession and greed. As her pursuit of answers brings her closer to a killer, she risks being given a final resting place amid the bones that wait, silent and still, in the cabinets of Barnaby Mayne.

Author : Reed Gochberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197553480

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Useful Objects by Reed Gochberg Pdf

'Useful Objects' examines the cultural history of nineteenth-century American museums through the eyes of writers, visitors, and collectors. Throughout this period, museums gradually transformed from encyclopedic cabinets to more specialized public institutions. These changes prompted wider debates about how museums determine what objects to select, preserve, and display-and who gets to decide. Drawing on a wide range of archival materials and accounts in fiction, guidebooks, and periodicals, this text shows how the challenges facing nineteenth-century museums continue to resonate in debates about their role in American culture today.

Author : Barbara M. Benedict
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0226042642

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Curiosity by Barbara M. Benedict Pdf

In this striking social history, Barbara M. Benedict draws on the texts of the early modern period to discover the era's attitudes toward curiosity, a trait we learn was often depicted as an unsavory form of transgression or cultural ambition.

Author : Nancy Hiller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733391649

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Kitchen Think by Nancy Hiller Pdf

Author : Lesley Koomen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-29
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9464356286

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How to Start Your Curiosity Cabinet by Lesley Koomen Pdf

Are you always mesmerized by all the beautiful curiosities displayed in curiosity cabinets? This book will function as your guide in the beautiful world of curiosities and oddities.

Author : Christine Davenne
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Design
ISBN : 1419705547

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Cabinets of Wonder by Christine Davenne Pdf

Translation of Cabinets de curiosites, published in Paris by Martiniere in 2011.

Author : Janelle A. Schwartz,Nhora Lucía Serrano
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527553385

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Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities by Janelle A. Schwartz,Nhora Lucía Serrano Pdf

Curious Collectors, Collected Curiosities: An Interdisciplinary Study asks its readers to enter into an investigation of the nature of collecting as an aesthetic exercise. Spanning the sixteenth century through today, this book gathers together the work of current scholars to re-envision the task of collectors and their collections in broad strokes. Each chapter appropriates the idea of a cabinet of curiosity in order to expand its boundaries of meaning and to complicate our understanding of the acts of display and observation. These chapters also demonstrate that collecting is a universal trope which nevertheless depends on time and place for its particular expressions. Whether the collection is made up of literary texts and criticism, visual art, including mechanical reproductions, taxidermy and photography, historical travelogues, museum exhibitions, blockbuster films, or airline in-flight briefing cards, it conveys an urgent relevance to our consumer age, in which information is abundant and attention is a commodity.