Engaging Smithsonian objects through science, history, and the arts
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書誌事項
Engaging Smithsonian objects through science, history, and the arts
（Smithsonian contributions to knowledge）
Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016
- : pbk
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注記
Includes bibliographical references
収録内容
- Material matters : ways of knowing museum objects / Mary Jo Arnoldi
- Smithson's Crypt and the search for a proper Memorial / Richard Stamm
- James Smithson's remains : a biological perspective / David R. Hunt
- Thomas Wilfred's Study in depth, Opus 152 : an artist's experiment with lighting / Bernard Finn
- Silent music : Thomas Wilfred's Study in depth, Opus 152 / Judith Zilczer
- A not so gentle history : violent explosions at Kīlauea Volcano, Hawaii / Richard Fiske
- Objectifying Pele as performance, material culture, and cultural landscape / Adrienne L. Kaeppler
- How to Identify a Stradivarius stringed instrument / Gary Sturm and Bruno Frohlich
- Violins from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and private collections : a pilot comparative study / Bruno Frohlich and Gary Sturm
- Huey helicopter : steed for the "sky calvary" / Roger Connor
- Huey 65-10126 : a curator's journey of discovery / Peter L. Jakab
- A throwing knife through production and use / S. Terry Childs
- A throwing knife in motion : the journey from the Congo to the Smithsonian / Mary Jo Arnoldi
- The iron lung in history and cultural memory / Katherine Ott
- Whatever happened to the iron lung? Visitor memories of an iconic medical object / Matthew A. White
- Augustus Washington : daguerreotypist of John Brown / Ann M. Shumard
- In the service of abolitionism : Augustus Washington's daguerreotype portrait of John Brown / Frank H. Goodyear III
- The amazing ruby slippers and their magical travels / Ellen Roney Hughes
- Collecting a national tragedy : the National Museum of American History and September 11 / James B. Gardner
- September 11, 2001, a moment in time : relevance of the Smithsonian human skeleton collections / Marilyn R. London
内容説明・目次
内容説明
How do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? "Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts" explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them. Objects are a window, and by looking through them we can learn and understand more about the people who made them and the time and place they came from. In the pursuit of this understanding museums are invaluable; they are repositories not just of things but also of past, present, and future knowledge. "Engaging Smithsonian Objects "puts these ideas into practice, using objects to bring us to new knowledge and showing how museums support us in the endeavor. The book is organized around ten objects from the Smithsonian s vast collections. Some of the objects are iconic the Ruby Slippers from the "The Wizard of Oz "or three Stradivarius string instruments" "while others are more ordinary, though no less interesting an Iron Lung or a Hawaiian gourd drum. Two different authors with expertise in different academic disciplines write about each object from their unique professional and personal perspective. Both the authors and the ten featured objects represent a range of academic disciplines, from art to anthropology to geology. Taken together, the twenty essays in the book demonstrate just how much we can learn from objects by considering their kaleidoscopic meaning and significance from a variety of viewpoints. The book s interdisciplinary engagement with objects was inspired by the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, now in its twenty-sixth year. For students of material culture and museum studies, this book illustrates the vitality and value of exploring material culture through the lens of intersecting disciplinary perspectives. For students of curiosity and lifelong learning, this book offers a lively and thoughtful look into the Smithsonian s collection and the many vibrant worlds it represents. Richly illustrated with color plates and photographs throughout, "Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts "is a beautiful and stimulating answer to the question, How do we know our world, and how can we know more? "
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