The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design - Hardcover

 
9781851779727: The Lives of the Objects: Collecting Design
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1851779728 ISBN 13: 9781851779727
Verlag: Abrams & Chronicle, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell the stories behind ten of their most treasured objects. 'Tipu's Tiger' (an almost life-size wooden semi-automaton mauling a European soldier), the 'Great Bed of Ware' (an Elizabethan bed for 8 people) and a Shakespeare First Folio are among the featured highlights whose route to the V&A collections are entertainingly revealed.

Through these stories, this insightful history of museum curation - a world of careful study and sometimes remarkable fortuity - shows how the priorities of a museum are shaped and change over time.
Published to explore in more depth some of the stories featured in the BBC six part series Secrets of the Museum

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tristram Hunt is director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. A former member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central, he is the author of several books on British history.
 

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In this intriguing insight into the work and history of a museum, V&A director and historian Dr Tristram Hunt brings together ten renowned V&A curators to tell the stories behind ten of their most treasured objects. ‘Tipu’s Tiger’ (an almost life-size wooden semi-automaton mauling a European soldier), the ‘Great Bed of Ware’ (an Elizabethan bed for 8 people) and a Shakespeare First Folio are among the featured highlights whose route to the V&A collections are entertainingly revealed.

Through these stories, this insightful history of museum curation – a world of careful study and sometimes remarkable fortuity – shows how the priorities of a museum are shaped and change over time.

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Verlag
Abrams & Chronicle
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1851779728
ISBN 13 
9781851779727
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Herausgeber
Hunt Tristram
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