Extreme Collecting

List of Figures



Extreme Collecting: Dealing with Difficult Objects

Graeme Were



Part I: Dificult Objects



Chapter 1. The Material Culture of Persecution: Collecting for the Holocaust Exhibition at the Imperial War Museum

Suzanne Bardgett



Chapter 2. Lyricism and Offence in Egyptian Archaeology Collections

Stephen Quirke



Chapter 3. Contested Human Remains

Jack Lohman



Chapter 4. Extreme or Commonplace: The Collecting of Unprovenanced Antiquities

Kathryn Walker Tubb



Chapter 5. Unfit for Society? The Case of the Galton Collection at University College London

Natasha McEnroe



Part II: Mass Produced



Chapter 6. Knowing the New

Susan Pearce



Chapter 7. T he Global Scope of Extreme Collecting: Japanese Woodblock Prints on the Internet

Richard Wilk



Chapter 8. A wkward Objects: Collecting, Deploying and Debating Relics

Jan Geisbusch



Chapter 9. Great Expectations and Modest Transactions: Art, Commodity and Collecting

Henrietta Lidchi



Part III: Extreme Matters



Chapter 10. Extremes of Collecting at the Imperial War Museum 1917-2009: Struggles with the Large and the Ephemeral

Paul Cornish



Chapter 11. Plastics - Why Not? A Perspective from the Museum of Design in Plastics

Susan Lambert



Chapter 12. T ime Capsules as Extreme Collecting

Brian Durrans



Chapter 13. Canning Cans - a Brand New Way of Looking at History

Robert Opie in conversation with J.C.H. King



Notes on Contributors

Index