Extreme collecting : challenging practices for 21st century museums /: challenging practices for 21st century museums. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Graeme Were and J.C.H. King.
• Other Names: Were, Graeme; King, J. C. H (Jonathan C. H.)
• Contents: The material culture of persecution : collecting for the Holocaust exhibition at the Imperial War Museum / Suzanne Bardgett -- Lyricism and offence in Egyptian archaeology collections / Stephen Quirke -- Contested human remains / Jack Lohman -- Extreme or commonplace : the collecting of unprovenanced antiquities / Kathy Walker Tubb -- Unfit for society? : the case of the Galton Collection at UCL / Natasha McEnroe -- Knowing the new / Susan Pearce -- The global scope of extreme collecting : Japanese woodblock prints on the Internet / Richard Wilk -- Awkward objects : collecting, deploying and debating relics / Jan Geisbusch -- Great expectations and modest transactions : art, commodity and collecting / Henrietta Lidchi -- Extremes of collecting at the Imperial War Museum, 1917-2009 : struggles with the large and the ephemeral / Paul Cornish -- Plastics -- why not? : a perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics / Susan Lambert -- Time capsules as extreme collecting / Brian Durrans -- Canning cans, or, What you can do with tins : an interview with Robert Opie / J.C.H. King.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (x, 238 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 069/.4; Museums -- Acquisitions -- Moral and ethical aspects; Museums -- Collection management
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780857453648; 0857453645
• Related ISBNs: 9780857453631; 0857453637
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.