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Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories
Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international, interdisciplinary group of authors consider the meanings and values with which objects are imputed and the processes and implications of collecting. This includes considering the entanglement of objects and collectors in webs of social relations, value and change, object biographies and the sometimes conflicting stories that things come to represent, and the strategies used to reconstruct and retell the narratives of objects. The book includes considerations of individual and groups of objects, such as domestic interiors, novelty tea-pots, Scottish stone monuments, African ironworking, a postcolonial painting and memorials to those killed on the roads in Australia. It also contains chapters dealing with particular collectors ? including Charles Bell and Beatrix Potter ? and representational techniques.
304 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | May 24, 2012 |
| ISBN13 | 9780415692717 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 239 × 19 mm · 636 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Barnes, Amy Jane |
| Editor | Binnie, Jennifer |
| Editor | Dudley, Sandra H. (University of Leicester, UK) |
| Editor | Petrov, Julia |
| Editor | Walklate, Jennifer |
