
Collection Thinking
Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 27. May 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
342 pages
978-1-032-25255-1 (ISBN)
Description
Collection Thinking is a volume of essays that thinks across and beyond critical frameworks from library, archival, and museum studies to understand the meaning of "collection" as an entity and as an act. It offers new models for understanding how collections have been imagined and defined, assembled, created, and used as cultural phenomena.
Featuring over 70 illustrations and 21 original chapters that explore cases from a wide range of fields, including library and archival studies, literary studies, art history, media studies, sound studies, folklore studies, game studies, and education, Collection Thinking builds on the important scholarly works produced on the topic of the archive over the past two decades and contributes to ongoing debates on the historical status of memory institutions. The volume illustrates how the concept of "collection" bridges these institutional and structural categories, and generates discussions of cultural activities involving artifactual arrangement, preservation, curation, and circulation in both the private and the public spheres. Edited and introduced collaboratively by three senior scholars with expertise in the fields of literature, art history, archives, and museums, Collection Thinking is designed to stimulate interdisciplinary reflection and conversation.
This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in how we organize materials for research across disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. With case studies that range from collecting Barbie dolls to medieval embroideries, and with contributions from practitioners on record collecting, the creation of sub-culture archives, and collection as artistic practice, this volume will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about why and how collections are made.
Featuring over 70 illustrations and 21 original chapters that explore cases from a wide range of fields, including library and archival studies, literary studies, art history, media studies, sound studies, folklore studies, game studies, and education, Collection Thinking builds on the important scholarly works produced on the topic of the archive over the past two decades and contributes to ongoing debates on the historical status of memory institutions. The volume illustrates how the concept of "collection" bridges these institutional and structural categories, and generates discussions of cultural activities involving artifactual arrangement, preservation, curation, and circulation in both the private and the public spheres. Edited and introduced collaboratively by three senior scholars with expertise in the fields of literature, art history, archives, and museums, Collection Thinking is designed to stimulate interdisciplinary reflection and conversation.
This book will be of interest to scholars and practitioners interested in how we organize materials for research across disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. With case studies that range from collecting Barbie dolls to medieval embroideries, and with contributions from practitioners on record collecting, the creation of sub-culture archives, and collection as artistic practice, this volume will appeal to anyone who has ever wondered about why and how collections are made.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate and Undergraduate
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
26 s/w Abbildungen, 32 farbige Abbildungen, 58 s/w Photographien bzw. Rasterbilder
58 Halftones, black and white; 32 Illustrations, color; 26 Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Weight
700 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-25255-1 (9781032252551)
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Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums
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Within and Without Libraries, Archives and Museums
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Persons
Jason Camlot is a Professor of English and Research Chair in Literature and Sound Studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada.
Martha Langford is the Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, a Distinguished University Research Professor in the Department of Art History, in Concordia University (Montreal), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Linda M. Morra is a Full Professor in English at Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Canada.
Martha Langford is the Research Chair and Director of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, a Distinguished University Research Professor in the Department of Art History, in Concordia University (Montreal), and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Linda M. Morra is a Full Professor in English at Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Canada.
Editor
Concordia University, Montreal
Concordia University, Montreal
Bishop's University, Canada
Content
Introduction; 1. Ontology; 2. Incautious Stewardship of Library Collections: Creating Collections Where They Don't Exist, Losing Collections Where They Do; 3. Indexing Intimacies: The Affective Collections of Andre Breton and Samuel M. Steward; 4. Collecting Children in Coraline and Harry Potter; 5. Edible Enigmas: Food Riddles and Enigmatical Bills of Fare; 6. A Variantology of Research Collections: The Residual Media Depot; 7. Situationist Stuff: Collection as Explanatory Accumulation; 8. Agency; 9. Audible Collections: What Remains of Voices on the Radio; 10. Collection as Biography: The Pierre and Annie Cantin Collection; 11. "The Relics...What are they?": Locating Florence Nightingale in her Childhood Library; 12. Creating, Collecting, and Curating: Mothers Pass Down Barbie Traditions; 13. Collecting Copies: The Fabiola Project by Francis Alys; 14. Audio Aficionados: The School of Collecting Very Old Sound Recordings; 15. Community; 16. Made to Move: Convent Embroidery Collections and Communities of Care; 17. Collect Them All (Again): Digital Collection as Nostalgic Incentive in Fire Emblem Heroes; 18. Off the Grid: Exploring the Human Networks in Underground Art Making and Collection Building; 19. Finding Fireweed: Magazine Metadata as Archive of Feminist Movement; 20. The People and the Text: An Inclusive Collection; 21. Raging: Revisiting Raging Dyke Network; 22. Conclusion, or How to Use this Book Now That You Have Read It.