Title & Author:

Material memories / edited by Marius Kwint, Christopher Breward and Jeremy Aynsley.

Publication:

Oxford : Berg, 1999.

Description:

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Materializing culture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : the physical past / Marius Kwint -- Prologue : from the museum of touch / Susan Stewart -- Materializing mourning : hair, jewellery and the body / Marcia Pointon -- Elizabeth Parker's 'sampler' : memory, suicide and the presence of the artist / Nigel Llewellyn -- Toys for girls : objects, women and memory in the Renaissance household / Marta Ajmar -- Modernism and memory : leaving traces / Gillian Naylor -- Souvenirs and forgetting : Walter Benjamin's memory-work / Esther Leslie -- The wand of fancy : the historical imagination of the Victorian tourist / Peter Mandler -- Embroidering the ties of empire : the Lord Grey banners / Jennifer E. Salahub -- The man who staged the empire : remembering Frank Lascelles in Sibford Gower, 1875-2000 / Deborah S. Ryan -- The construction of civic memory in early modern Norwich / Victor Morgan -- From the Arengario to the Lictor's axe : memories of Italian fascism / Tim Benton -- Photographs as objects of memory / Elizabeth Edwards -- The Titanic : an object manufactured for exhibition at the bottom of the sea / Tag Gronberg.

Summary:

This illustrated book is an attempt to understand the intersection of memory and material culture by providing an interdisciplinary forum for its analysis.

ISBN:

185973247X
9781859732472
1859732526 (pbk.)
9781859732526 (pbk.)

Subject:

Material culture Congresses.
Memory Congresses.
Culture matérielle Congrès.
Material culture
Memory
Sachkultur
Geschichtswissenschaft
Materiële cultuur.
Geheugen.
Design Psychological aspects Congresses.
Symbolic anthropology Congresses.
Objets de collection.
Mémoire.
Culture matérielle.

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Kwint, Marius.
Breward, Christopher, 1965-
Aynsley, Jeremy.
Materializing culture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204090
Call No.: BF378.D4 M3 1999
Status: Available