Collecting The World

Author : James Delbourgo
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067423748X

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Collecting the World by James Delbourgo Pdf

Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize A Times Book of the Week When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first free national public museum in the world. Collecting the World tells the story of the eccentric collector whose thirst for universal knowledge brought it into being. A man of insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging interests, Hans Sloane assembled a collection of antiquities, oddities, and artifacts from around the British Empire to form the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time. With few curbs on his passion, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects from China, India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Wampum beads, rare manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin: nothing was off limits. The first biography of Sloane based on his complete writings, Collecting the World portrays one of the Enlightenment's most original luminaries. "A magnificent scholarly coup and an enthralling read... It conveys the excitement of original research as well as the thrill of tracking exotic curiosities to their source." --Sunday Times "Delbourgo's engrossing new biography situates Sloane within the welter of intellectual and political crosscurrents that marked his times." --New York Times Book Review "A superb biography--humane, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself." --Times Literary Supplement "A superb book, enjoyably written, beautifully illustrated, and based on deep knowledge of the sources." --The Telegraph

Author : James Delbourgo
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780718194444

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Collecting the World by James Delbourgo Pdf

Hans Sloane was a young doctor from Northern Ireland who made his way in London and eventually become physician to the king and much of London society. In his youth he made a defining visit to Jamaica, where he began collecting 'curiosities' of all kinds. He eventually became the centre of a worldwide network which allowed him to assemble the collections which became the core of the British Museum, the Natural History Museum, and the British Library. This is the first major biography of Sloane in 60 years. It explores not just the impact of an extraordinary man, but allows us a window onto the moment when the meaning of collections and collecting changed.

Author : Vimalin Rujivacharakul
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781611490060

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Collecting China by Vimalin Rujivacharakul Pdf

Collecting China is a unique collection of essays that brings together theories of materiality and what collecting has meant to various peoples over time. Collecting China grew out of a simple question: how does a thing become Chinese? Fifteen essays explore this question from different angles, ranging from close examination of world-renowned private collections to critical reinterpretations of historical writings.

Author : James Delbourgo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780674737334

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Collecting the World by James Delbourgo Pdf

In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors to the public—the first free national museum in the world. James Delbourgo recounts the story behind its creation through the life of Hans Sloane, a controversial luminary with an insatiable ambition to pit universal knowledge against superstition and few curbs on his passion for collecting the world.

Author : Sonja Mejcher-Atassi,John Pedro Schwartz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317178842

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Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World by Sonja Mejcher-Atassi,John Pedro Schwartz Pdf

Collecting has a long tradition in the Middle East but the museum as a public institution is relatively new. Today there are national museums for antiquities in most Arab countries. While in some cases the political and social climate has hindered the foundation of museums, with existing collections even destroyed at times, the recent museum boom in the Gulf States is again changing the outlook. This unique book is the first to explore collecting practices in archives and museums in the modern Arab world, featuring case studies of collecting practices in countries ranging from Egypt and Lebanon to Palestine, Jordan, Iraq and the Gulf, and providing a theoretical and methodological basis for future research. The authors are also concerned with investigating the relationship between past and present, since collecting practices tell us a great deal not only about the past but also about the ways we approach the past and present conceptions of our identities. Collections can be textual as well, as in the stories, memories or events selected, recalled, and retold in the pages of a text. As interest in memory studies as well as popular and visual culture grows in the Arab World, so collecting practices are at the heart of any critical approach to the past and the present in that region. The book will be of great interest not only to scholars and students of the modern Arab world but also to professionals in museums and collections in the region, as well as around the world.

Author : Gordon Grice
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 53,5 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 : Jeffrey Hammond
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-15
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781587299438

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Little Big World by Jeffrey Hammond Pdf

"Collections are more about who one is than about what is collected. In Little Big World, Jeffrey Hammond's resonant 1950Æs inner child speaks through the reflective sixty-something man about the culture and magic of a spectrum of action figure playsets through a lifetime."ùMarilynn Gelfman Karp, author, In Flagrante Collecto

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780271047904

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Museums of the Mind: German Modernity and the Dynamics of Collecting by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ronald Searle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : UOM:39015019407306

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Slightly Foxed - But Still Desirable by Ronald Searle Pdf

The catalogues of antiquarian booksellers are written in a parallel language which can fool anyone not initiated into the mysteries of its complexities. After a lifetime of scanning these codes Ronald Searle has become an expert in decoding those poetic, exotic and usually approximate descriptions. InSlightly Foxed he offers his own guide to foiling the devious schemes of wicked booksellers forever.

Author : Eilon Paz
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781607748700

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Dust & Grooves by Eilon Paz Pdf

A photographic look into the world of vinyl record collectors—including Questlove—in the most intimate of environments—their record rooms. Compelling photographic essays from photographer Eilon Paz are paired with in-depth and insightful interviews to illustrate what motivates these collectors to keep digging for more records. The reader gets an up close and personal look at a variety of well-known vinyl champions, including Gilles Peterson and King Britt, as well as a glimpse into the collections of known and unknown DJs, producers, record dealers, and everyday enthusiasts. Driven by his love for vinyl records, Paz takes us on a five-year journey unearthing the very soul of the vinyl community.

Author : George H. Schwartz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Maritime museums
ISBN : 1613767153

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Collecting The Globe by George H. Schwartz Pdf

Author : Mr Mungo Campbell,Mr E. Geoffrey Hancock,Professor Nick Pearce
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781409447740

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William Hunter's World by Mr Mungo Campbell,Mr E. Geoffrey Hancock,Professor Nick Pearce Pdf

Despite William Hunter's stature as one of the most important collectors and men of science of the eighteenth century, and the fact that his collection is the foundation of Scotland's oldest public museum, The Hunterian, until now there has been no comprehensive examination in a single volume of all his collections in their diversity. This volume comprises essays by international specialists and are as diverse as Hunter's collections themselves, dealing as they do with material that ranges from medical and scientific specimens, to painting, prints, books and manuscripts, and includes a special feature of links to the Hunterian's web pages and on-line databases. Locating Hunter's collecting within the broader context of his age and environment, this book provides an original approach to a man and collection whose importance has yet to be comprehensively assessed.

Author : James Mackay,James Alexander Mackay,Philip Mussell
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0754823458

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The World Encyclopedia of Coins & Coin Collecting by James Mackay,James Alexander Mackay,Philip Mussell Pdf

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Author : Maia Wellington Gahtan,Eva-Maria Troelenberg
Publisher : Harvey Miller
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Art
ISBN : 1909400637

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Collecting and Empires by Maia Wellington Gahtan,Eva-Maria Troelenberg Pdf

The creation and dissolution of empires has been a constant feature of human history from ancient times through the present day. Establishing new identities and new power relationships, empires also irrevocably altered social structures and the material culture on which those social structures were partly based. The political activities of empires are materially reflected in the movement of objects from periphery to center (and vice versa) and in the formation and display of collections which represent the potential for the production and the dissemination of knowledge. Imperial collecting practices tell stories that are complementary to and go beyond the classical sources of official history, the statistics of social history and even the narratives of collective or individual oral history. Building on previous work on European and Colonial object histories, this collection of essays--for the first time--approaches the subject of collecting and empires from a global and inclusive comparative perspective by addressing selection of the greatest empires the world has known from Han China to Hellenistic Greece to Aztec Mexico to the Third Reich. The comparative historical investigation of imperialism through the lens of collecting practices, museum archetypes and museums proper, helps shape our understanding of contemporary aesthetics and diversity management as well as helps identify what is imperial about our own approaches to material culture.

Author : Daniela Bleichmar,Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812204964

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Collecting Across Cultures by Daniela Bleichmar,Peter C. Mancall Pdf

In the early modern age more people traveled farther than at any earlier time in human history. Many returned home with stories of distant lands and at least some of the objects they collected during their journeys. And those who did not travel eagerly acquired wondrous materials that arrived from faraway places. Objects traveled various routes—personal, imperial, missionary, or trade—and moved not only across space but also across cultures. Histories of the early modern global culture of collecting have focused for the most part on European Wunderkammern, or "cabinets of curiosities." But the passion for acquiring unfamiliar items rippled across many lands. The court in Java marveled at, collected, and displayed myriad goods brought through its halls. African princes traded captured members of other African groups so they could get the newest kinds of cloth produced in Europe. Native Americans sought colored glass beads made in Europe, often trading them to other indigenous groups. Items changed hands and crossed cultural boundaries frequently, often gaining new and valuable meanings in the process. An object that might have seemed mundane in some cultures could become a target of veneration in another. The fourteen essays in Collecting Across Cultures represent work by an international group of historians, art historians, and historians of science. Each author explores a specific aspect of the cross-cultural history of collecting and display from the dawn of the sixteenth century to the early decades of the nineteenth century. As the essays attest, an examination of early modern collecting in cross-cultural contexts sheds light on the creative and complicated ways in which objects in collections served to create knowledge—some factual, some fictional—about distant peoples in an increasingly transnational world.