Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Museum materialities : objects, engagements, interpretations /

Museum materialities : objects, engagements, interpretations / edited by Sandra H. Dudley. - London ; New York : Routledge, 2010. - xix, 289 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Museum materialities : objects, sense and feeling / Sandra H. Dudley -- Photographs and history : emotion and materiality / Elizabeth Edwards -- Remembering the dead by affecting the living : the case of a miniature model of Treblinka / Andrea Witcomb -- Touching the Buddha : encounters with a charismatic object / Christopher Wingfield -- Contemporary art : an immaterial practice? / Helen Pheby -- The eyes have it : eye movements and the debatable differences between original objects and reproductions / Helen Saunderson, Alice Cruickshank and Eugene McSorley -- Experiencing materiality in the museum : artefacts re-made / Alexander Stevenson -- Virginia Woolf's glasses : material encounters in the literary/artistic house museum / Nuala Hancock -- When ethnographies enter art galleries / Lydia Nakashima Degarrod -- Engaging the material world : object knowledge and Australian journeys / Kirsten Wehner and Martha Sear -- Watch your step : embodiment and encounter at Tate Modern / Helen Rees Leahy -- Reconsidering digital surrogates : toward a viewer-orientated model of the gallery experience / Bradley L. Taylor -- Dancing pot and pregnant jar? : on ceramics, metaphors and creative labels / Wing Yan Vivian Ting -- Myth, memory and the senses in the Churchill Museum / Sheila Watson -- Dreams and wishes : the multi-sensory museum space / Viv Golding -- Making meaning beyond display / Chris Dorsett -- Authenticity and object relations in contemporary performance art / Klare Scarborough -- Afterword / Howard Morphy.

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Museums--Social aspects.
Museums--Psychological aspects.
Museum visitors.
Museum exhibits--Social aspects.
Museum exhibits--Psychological aspects.
Material culture--Social aspects.
Material culture--Psychological aspects.
Senses and sensation--Social aspects.
Emotions--Social aspects.
Aesthetics--Social aspects.

AM 7 / .M8723 2010

069.01