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Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age

Author : Haidy Geismar
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 1787352838
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age written by Haidy Geismar and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of collection, older forms of media (from dioramas to photography), and theories of how knowledge is produced in museums on a wide range of digital projects. Swooping from Ethnographic to Decorative Arts Collections, from the Google Art Project to bespoke digital experiments, Haidy Geismar explores the object lessons contained in digital form and asks what they can tell us about both the past and the future. Drawing on the author’s extensive experience working with collections across the world, Geismar argues for an understanding of digital media as material, rather than immaterial, and advocates for a more nuanced, ethnographic and historicised view of museum digitisation projects than those usually adopted in the celebratory accounts of new media in museums. By locating the digital as part of a longer history of material engagements, transformations and processes of translation, this book broadens our understanding of the reality effects that digital technologies create, and of how digital media can be mobilised in different parts of the world to very different effects.

Object Lessons

Author : Sarah Anne Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019022505X
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons written by Sarah Anne Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses--touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating--leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things--from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.

Object Lessons

Author : Laura Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300254167
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (541 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons written by Laura Muir and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at the influential pedagogy and practice pioneered by the Bauhaus Founded by architect Walter Gropius (1883-1969) in 1919, the Bauhaus was the 20th century's most influential school of art, architecture, and design. After the school was shuttered under pressure from the Nazis in 1933, many Bauhaus artists brought their innovative practices and teaching methods to the United States. Gropius himself accepted a position at Harvard, where he would help establish a collection of Bauhaus material that has since grown to more than 30,000 objects--the largest such collection outside Germany. Harvard in turn became an unofficial center for the Bauhaus in America. Written by established and emerging voices in the field, the scholarship presented here expands on the special link between the two institutions, while highlighting understudied aspects of the Bauhaus, such as weaving, photography, and art made by women. Accompanied by beautiful illustrations--some of never-before-published objects--this book yields fascinating insights for Bauhaus devotees and design aficionados. Distributed for the Harvard Art Museums

Object Lessons and Early Learning

Author : Sharon Shaffer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351332902
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons and Early Learning written by Sharon Shaffer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twenty-first century is a time of change for early learning in museums, due in part to society's evolving view of childhood, from an age of innocence to understanding the robust learning that defines the first years of life. This perspective is a catalyst for international conversation and continues to raise attention and interest across society. Object Lessons and Early Learning leverages what is known about the cognitive development of young children to examine the power of learning through objects in museum and heritage settings. Exploring the history and modern day practice of object-based learning, Shaffer outlines the rationale for endorsing this approach in both formal and informal learning spaces. She argues that museums, as collecting institutions, are learning spaces uniquely positioned to allow children to make meaning about their world through personal connections to cultural artifacts, natural specimens, and works of art. A range of descriptive object lessons, inspired by objects in museums as well as from the everyday world, are presented throughout the text as examples of ways in which children can be encouraged to engage with museum collections. Object Lessons and Early Learning offers insights into strategies for engaging young children as learners in museum settings and in their everyday world, and, as such, will be essential reading for museum professionals, classroom educators, and students. It should also be of great interest to academics and researchers engaged in the study of museums and education.

Primary Object Lessons for a Graduated Course of Development

Author : Norman Allison Calkins
Publisher : University of Michigan Library
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.L/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Primary Object Lessons for a Graduated Course of Development written by Norman Allison Calkins and published by University of Michigan Library. This book was released on 1861 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Manual of Information and Suggestions for Object Lessons, in a Course of Elementary Instruction

Author : Marcius Willson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
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Download or read book A Manual of Information and Suggestions for Object Lessons, in a Course of Elementary Instruction written by Marcius Willson and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Object Lessons

Author : Robyn Wiegman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822351609
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons written by Robyn Wiegman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-11 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate advocate of identity studies and a keen reader of U.S. institutional politics, Robyn Wiegman turns her attention in Object Lessons to the critical practices and political ambitions of identity-based fields. In a series of case studies drawn from womens studies, queer studies, ethnic studies, and American studies, she examines the unspoken belief that better theory will produce progressive social change in order to consider the political desire that fuels current scholarly debate. Her metacritical analysis is neither a defense nor a dismissal of such political commitment but a sustained inquiry into the hope it generates, the thinking it inspires, and the conformity it inadvertently demands.

A Manual of Information and Suggestions for Object Lessons in a Course of Elementary Instruction

Author : Marcius Willson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385240662
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book A Manual of Information and Suggestions for Object Lessons in a Course of Elementary Instruction written by Marcius Willson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

A Manual of Information and Suggestions for Object Lessons in a Course of Elementary Instruction, Adapted to the Use of the School and Family Charts and Other Aids in Teaching

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Author : Marcius Willson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis A Manual of Information and Suggestions for Object Lessons in a Course of Elementary Instruction, Adapted to the Use of the School and Family Charts and Other Aids in Teaching by : Marcius Willson

Download or read book A Manual of Information and Suggestions for Object Lessons in a Course of Elementary Instruction, Adapted to the Use of the School and Family Charts and Other Aids in Teaching written by Marcius Willson and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Natural History Object Lessons

Author : George Ricks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
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Download or read book Natural History Object Lessons written by George Ricks and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Object Lessons

Author : Sarah Anne Carter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190225041
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons written by Sarah Anne Carter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-12 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things--objects and pictures--were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses--touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating--leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things--from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.

Longman's Object Lessons

Author : David Salmon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Longman's Object Lessons written by David Salmon and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Object Lessons

Author : George Loudon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781909932104
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons written by George Loudon and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons brings together over 200 finely crafted objects, originally designed in the nineteenth century for the study of natural sciences, from the collection of George Loudon. The material, which ranges from botanical species and anatomical models to publications and illustrations, has lost its original pedagogical function and is now open for contemporary reappraisal. In presenting these objects in a new context, their beauty and formal inventiveness - as well as their creators' capacity for artistic expression - can be evaluated and appreciated. Alongside photography by Rosamond Purcell, this volume includes explanatory texts on the objects by Loudon, an essay by Robert McCracken Peck, and a conversation between Loudon and Lynne Cooke. Together they offer insight into a collection that provides a remarkable new perspective on the intersection of art and science.

Object Lessons

Author : Jami Bartlett
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022636965X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons written by Jami Bartlett and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major contribution to the theory of realism, Jami Bartlett s book analyzes the processes by which literary language renders objects as real entities. Bartlett s approach is to apply theories of reference in the philosophy of language to interactions between characters and objects in nineteenth-century literature. She addresses a fundamental question of literary realism how can language evoke that which is not language? and the ways in which four key English authors answered that question. George Meredith, William Makepeace Thackeray, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Iris Murdoch probe the relationship between words and objects, and provide in their descriptions, characterizations, and plots allegories of language use. Bartlett shows, for example, how the daydreamers of Gaskell s novel "Cranford" confronted with objects that they will never have access to and lives they will never lead, build semantic associations between familiar and unfamiliar objects that enable them to understand references that they wouldn t otherwise. Concise and clearly written, "Object Lessons" is destined to become a key work in theory of the novel."

Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time

Author : Eavan Boland
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393346463
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time written by Eavan Boland and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996-07-17 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this important prose work, one of our major poets explores, through autobiography and argument, a woman's life in Ireland together with a poet's work. Eavan Boland beautifully uncovers the powerful drama of how these lives affect one another; how the tradition of womanhood and the historic vocation of the poet act as revealing illuminations of the other.

Things that Talk

Author : Lorraine Daston
Publisher : Mit Press
ISBN 13 : 9781890951436
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (514 download)

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Download or read book Things that Talk written by Lorraine Daston and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays examine nine intriguing objects made eloquent when matter and meaning converge. Imagine a world without things. There would be nothing to describe, nothing to explain, remark, interpret, or complain about. Without things, we would stop speaking; we would become as mute as things are alleged to be. In nine original essays, internationally renowned historians of art and of science seek to understand how objects become charged with significance without losing their gritty materiality. True to the particularity of things, each of the essays singles out one object for close attention: a Bosch drawing, the freestanding column, a Prussian island, soap bubbles, early photographs, glass flowers, Rorschach blots, newspaper clippings, paintings by Jackson Pollock. Each is revealed to be a node around which meanings accrete thickly. But not just any meanings: what these things are made of and how they are made shape what they can mean. Neither the pure texts of semiotics nor the brute objects of positivism, these things are saturated with cultural significance. Things become talkative when they fuse matter and meaning; they lapse into speechlessness when their matter and meanings no longer mesh. Each of the nine objects examined in this book had its historical moment, when the match of this thing to that thought seemed irresistible. At these junctures, certain things become objects of fascination, association, and endless consideration; they begin to talk. Things that talk fleetingly realize the dream of a perfect language, in which words and world merge. Essays Lorraine Daston, Peter Galison, Anke te Heesen, Caroline A. Jones, Joseph Leo Koerner, Antoine Picon, Simon Schaffer, Joel Snyder, and M. Norton and Elaine M. Wise. Lorraine Daston is Director at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, Germany. She is the coauthor of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750 (Zone Books).

Souvenir

Author : Rolf Potts
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501329421
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Souvenir written by Rolf Potts and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. For as long as people have traveled to distant lands, they have brought home objects to certify the journey. More than mere merchandise, these travel souvenirs take on a personal and cultural meaning that goes beyond the object itself. Drawing on several millennia of examples-from the relic-driven quests of early Christians, to the mass-produced tchotchkes that line the shelves of a Disney gift shop-travel writer Rolf Potts delves into a complicated history that explores issues of authenticity, cultural obligation, market forces, human suffering, and self-presentation. Souvenirs are shown for what they really are: not just objects, but personalized forms of folk storytelling that enable people to make sense of the world and their place in it.' Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. Souvenir features illustrations by Cedar Van Tassel