{"product_id":"museum-materialities-9780415492188","title":"Museum Materialities","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an innovative interdisciplinary book about objects and people within museums and galleries. It addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. The chapters explore ways and contexts in which things and people mutually interact, and raise questions about how objects carry meaning and feeling, the distinctions between objects and persons, particular qualities of the museum as context for person-object engagements, and the active and embodied role of the museum visitor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMuseum Materialities\u003c\/em\u003e is divided into three sections  Objects, Engagements and Interpretations  and includes a foreword by Susan Pearce and an afterword by Howard Morphy. It examines materiality and other perceptual and ontological qualities of objects themselves; embodied sensory and cognitive engagements  both personal and across a wider audience spread  with particular objects or object types in a museum or gallery setting; notions \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword  1. Introduction: Materiality And Matter Reality In The Museum  Part I: Objects  2. The Eyes Have It: Eye Movements And The Debatable Differences Between Original Objects And Reproductions  3. Artefacts Re-Made  4. Touching The Buddha: An Extraordinary Object Demanding A Response  5. Photographs And History: Emotion And Materiality  6. Virginia Woolf's Glasses: Material Encounters In The Literary\/Artistic House Museum  7. Using Objects To Remember The Dead And Affect The Living: The Case Of A Miniature Model Of Treblinka  Part II: Engagements  8. Contemporary Sculpture: An Immaterial Practice  9. When Ethnographies Enter Art Galleries: Viewing Violence And Inhabiting Other's Beauty  10. Visitors, Bodies And Forms In Australian Journeys  11. Not Just Looking: Embodiment And Encounter In The Contemporary Art Museum  12. Playing With Museum Encounters: Art, Materiality And The Aesthetics Of Engagement  13. Perceptions Of Edinburgh: Weight, Vision And Movement In The Northern City Exhibition  Part III : Interpretations  14. 'A Thing Is A Thing. Why Bother?' On A Sensory Interpretive Project Involving Chinese Ceramics  15. Churchill Re-Imagined: History, Memory And The Senses And The Modern Museum 16. Children Feeling Africa In The Museum  17. Beyond Display, Making Meaning  18. Beyond Words: Interpreting The Unspeakable?  Afterword\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51018156671319,"sku":"9780415492188","price":37.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780415492188.jpg?v=1750775829","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/museum-materialities-9780415492188","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}