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Author(s): Colleen J. Sheehy (Editor)
ISBN(s): 0816644705
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 3.58 MB
Year: 2006
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0816644705

ISBN 13: 978-0816644704

Author: Colleen J. Sheehy

The richly illustrated essays in Cabinet of Curiosities records the creative processes behind an installation designed by contemporary artist Mark Dion at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota, a collaboration of museum staff, students, and collection curators. Drawing from university collections, Dion and the curators chose seven hundred objects representative of the state’s history, ranging from a Bierstadt painting of Minnehaha Falls to Hubert Humphrey memorabilia, as well as objects that would have fascinated Renaissance viewers—such as mirrors and the world’s smallest plant—and arranged them into categories typical of Renaissance inquiry, such as the Underworld, the Sea, Humankind, and the Library. Together, the cabinets represented the university in miniature, just as their Renaissance precursors had attempted to represent microcosms of the world. Cabinet of Curiosities offers commentary on the ways in which collecting has undergirded the creation of knowledge within universities and in Western society.Colleen J. Sheehy is director of education at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum and associate faculty in American studies and art history at the University of Minnesota. Published in cooperation with the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum

Table of contents:

Chapter 1 – Introduction: Restaging the Cabinet of Curiosities

Chapter 2 – Contemporary Museums and the Cabinet of Curiosities

Chapter 3 – A Walrus Head in the Art Museum: Mark Dion Digs into the University of Minnesota

Chapter 4 – A Conversation with Mark Dion

Chapter 5 – Curiosity Cabinets, Museums, and Universities

Chapter 6 – Student Curators Reflect on Cabinet of Curiosities

Chapter 7 – The Bezoar

Chapter 8 – Objects and Facts

Chapter 9 – Cabinet of Humankind: Creating and Questioning Values

Chapter 10 – Curator of the Air

Chapter 11 – The Cabinet of the Library or Archive

Chapter 12 – Exploring the Universe within the University

Chapter 13 – Cabinet of Curiosities Exhibition Checklist

Chapter 14 – University of Minnesota Collections

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