Museums as Cultures of Copies -

Museums as Cultures of Copies

The Crafting of Artefacts and Authenticity
Buch | Softcover
274 Seiten
2020
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-66329-2 (ISBN)
52,35 inkl. MwSt
Museums and the Culture of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today.
Few institutions are warier of copies than museums. Few fields of knowledge are more prone to denounce copies as fake than the heritage field. Few discourses are as concerned with authenticity, aura, originals and provenance as those concerning exhibiting and collecting. So why is it that these are institutions, fields and discourses where copies proliferate and copying techniques have thrived for hundreds of years? Museums as Cultures of Copies aims to make the copying practices of museums visible and to discuss, from a range of interrelated perspectives, precisely what function copies fulfil in the heritage field and in museums today.



With contributions from Europe and Canada, the book interrogates the meaning of copies and presents copying as a fully integrated part of museum work. Including chapters on ethnographic mannequins, digitalized photos, death masks, museum documentation and mechanical models, contributors consider how copying as a cultural form changes according to time and place and how new forms of copying and copy technologies challenge and expand museum work today. Arguing that copying is at the basis of museum practice and that new technologies and practices have been taken up and developed in museums since their inception, the book presents both heritage work and copies in a new light.



Museums as Cultures of Copies should be of great interest to academics, scholars and postgraduate students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, as well as visual studies, cultural history and archaeology. It should also be essential reading for museum practitioners.

Brita Brenna is Professor of Museology and Head of Centre for Museum Studies at the University of Oslo, Norway. Hans Dam Christensen is Professor of Cultural Communication at the Royal School of Library and Information Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Olav Hamran is Head of Research and Development, Arts Council Norway.

Museums as cultures of copies



Introduction

Brita Brenna, Hans Dam Christensen, Olav Hamran



Section I: Models



Section 1 Introduction



Chapter 1 - The Art and Science of Replication. Copies and Copying in the Multi-Disciplinary Museum

Samuel J.M.M. Alberti, Alice Blackwell, Peter Davidson, Martin Goldberg and Geoffrey N. Swinney



Chapter 2 - Knowing with models

Brita Brenna



Chapter 3 - Documenting, educating, recapturing – copying practices at the Norwegian Technical Museum



Olav Hamran



Chapter 4 - Mostly making models: The Scientific Use of Natural Heritage Collections



Henry McGhie



Section II: Mobility and instability



Section II Introduction



Chapter 5 - Lost Continents, Projective Objects

Mari Lending



Chapter 6 - Turkish Neo-Ottoman memory culture and the problems of copying the past

Gönül Bozoğlu and Christopher Whitehead



Chapter 7 - Replica Knowledge: Travelling Thrones

Felix Sattler & Anna Simandiraki-Grimshaw



Chapter 8 - Looking for originals in a museum of copies? The ambivalence of the Thorvaldsens Museum

Hans Dam Christensen



Chapter 9 - Copying as Museum Branding: Souvenirs with Edvard Munch’s Bedspread Pattern

Joanna Iranowska



Section III: Body, Life and death



Section III Introduction



Chapter 10 - Ethnographic Mannequins: Copying as artefactualization of human difference

Anne Folke Henningsen



Chapter 11 - Constructing Museum Nature: Photography and Specimens in Natural History Museums around 1900

Liv Emma Thorsen



Chapter 12 - Faces of death. Death masks in the museum



Ole Marius Hylland



Section IV: Text as/of thing



Section IV Introduction



Chapter 13 - Commonplaces, copies, and copiousness

Anne Eriksen



Chapter 14 - The proof of the original is in the copying: Heavenly chain letters

Siv Frøydis Berg



Chapter 15 - Documenting museum objects: A practice of copying and a ‘copious’ practice?

Janne Werner Olsrud



Chapter 16 - Breaking the frames? The creation of digital curatorial agency at Swedish cultural historical museums

Bodil Axelsson



Chapter 17 - Towards a Future Museum of Copying

Marcus Boon

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Research in Museum Studies
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 720 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-367-66329-5 / 0367663295
ISBN-13 978-0-367-66329-2 / 9780367663292
Zustand Neuware
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