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Author : Janet Hoskins
Release : 1998
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 124/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Biographical Objects by : Janet Hoskins
Download or read book Biographical Objects written by Janet Hoskins. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Janet Hoskins
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 646/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Biographical Objects by : Janet Hoskins
Download or read book Biographical Objects written by Janet Hoskins. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and self-historicizing. Janet Hoskins explores how things are given biographical significance and entangled in sexual politics, expressed in dualistic metaphors where the familiar distinctions between person and object and female and male are drawn in unfamiliar ways. Biographical Objects is an ethnography of persons which takes the form of a study of things, showing how the object is not only a metaphor for the self but a pivot for reflexivity and introspection, a tool for autobiographic elaboration, a way of knowing oneself through things.
Author : Janet Hoskins
Release : 2013-09-13
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 573/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Biographical Objects by : Janet Hoskins
Download or read book Biographical Objects written by Janet Hoskins. This book was released on 2013-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Release : 2021
Genre : Art, Ancient
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Book Rating : 879/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Object Biographies by : Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.)
Download or read book Object Biographies written by Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.). This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context This innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objects--a Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among them--in the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with the layperson in mind employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and modern provenance research to gain insight into the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly aboutarchaeology, art history, and collecting practices. They take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste to bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or a conceptual limbo. Essays on related groups or single objects introduce fresh frameworks to engage with the multilayered history these objects represent. The eight object biographies on ancient artifacts in the Menil are the first in-depth studies published on the collection. Essays by seven university professors probe works in their areas of expertise, while those by seven curators lay bare one object biography; frame provenance studies at the San Antonio Museum of Art, Getty Museum, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and survey war's effect on ancient works. The editors' introduction and an epilogue responding to the other 13 texts review theoretical and practical issues in the study of artifacts lacking archaeological findspots (provenience). Recommended for programs and libraries in museum studies, archaeology, and art history; art and heritage law programs; and readers fascinated by cold-case detective work on the material culture of the ancient Mediterranean. Distributed for the Menil Collection
Author : Christian Forstner
Release : 2020-07-22
Genre : Science
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Book Rating : 099/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Biographies in the History of Physics by : Christian Forstner
Download or read book Biographies in the History of Physics written by Christian Forstner. This book was released on 2020-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book sheds new light on the biographical approach in the history of physics by including the biographies of scientific objects, institutions, and concepts. What is a biography? Can biographies also be written for non-human subjects like scientific instruments, institutions or concepts? The respective chapters of this book discuss these controversial questions using examples from the history of physics. By approaching biography as metaphor, it transcends the boundaries between various perspectives on the history of physics, and enriches our grasp of the past.
