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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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A natural history /

Marquez, Jessica. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (M.F.A.)--Rochester Institute of Technology, 2008. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 39-40).
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The curatorial imagination in England, 1660-1752

Silver, Sean R., January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Illustrations not reproduced. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 416-446).
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The nineteenth-century relic a pre-history of the historical artifact /

Barnett, Teresa. January 2008 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--UCLA, 2008. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 306-321).
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A influência do colecionismo na representação da memória social : análise da coleção Amidicis Tocantins /

Santos, Admeire da Silva. January 2015 (has links)
Orientadora: Maria Leandra Bizello / Banca: Ana Cristina Albuquerque / Banca: João Batista Ernesto de Moraes / Resumo: A Biblioteca Central da universidade federal de Mato Grosso conta com um acervo de coleção de obras raras e especiais que recebe o nome do colecionador: Coleção Amidicis Tocantins - CAT. O colecionador, um homem comum, mas que gostava de colecionar livros de relevância social, faleceu e deixou a coleção aos cuidados da família, que decidiu doar a coleção. O processo de doação foi intermediado pelos membros da família e a reitoria da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, que no período demonstrou interesse em receber a coleção. A Biblioteca Central, como muitas outras bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, passa por problemas financeiros para o tratamento adequado da coleção, seja estrutural ou de capacitação pessoal. Dessa forma, as obras pertencentes à coleção não possuem tratamento algum, o que vem gerando muitos questionamentos. E a questão aqui trabalhada é: pode uma coleção anteriormente particular representar a memória coletiva? Na busca para a resolução dessa questão, elencou-se como objetivo principal identificar e discutir a relevância de uma coleção institucionalizada na configuração da memória social, no âmbito da Ciência da Informação, por meio do estudo do caso da Coleção Amidicis Tocantins. Nesse seguimento, busca-se analisar, no âmbito da Ciência da Informação, os termos coleção, objeto, memória e lugar de memória, estabelecendo assim um diálogo entre esses conceitos; analisar in loco a Coleção Amidicis Tocantins a fim de coletar informações e interpretar por meio da literatura as questões pertinentes ao significado e finalidade da coleção; apresentar de que forma a Coleções Amidicis Tocantins pode representar a memória social e refletir nos motivos pelo qual foi escolhida pela instituição. A metodologia do trabalho é o estudo de caso, na qual se utilizou da ... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The Mato Grosso Federal University Central Library counts with a collection of rare and special works that receives the collector's name: Coleção Amidicis Tocantins - CAT. The collector, a common man, who liked to collect social relevant books, died and left the collection under the care of his family which decided to donate the collection. The donation process was intermediated by the family members and the Mato Grosso Federal University rector who in the period showed interest in receiving the collection. The Central Library, as many others Brazilian public universities, struggles with financial problems to give proper treatment to the collection, be it structural or of personal capacitation.This way the works that belong to the collection don't have any treatment, which has been causing many questioning s. And the question here worked is: Can a previously particular collection represent a collective memory? In the search for the resolution of this question it was ranked as the main objective to identify and discuss the relevance of an institutionalized collection in the configuration of social memory, in the Information Science scope, through the studying of the Amidicis Tocantins Collection case. In this sequence it is aimed to analyze, in the Information Science scope, the terms collection, object, memory and place of memory, establishing, there for, a dialogue between these concepts; to analyze in loco the Amidicis Tocantins Collection in order to collect information and to interpret, through the literature, the questions pertinent to the collection's meaning and finality; to present how the Amidicis Tocantins Collection can represent a social memory and reflect the motives for which it was chosen by the institution. The works methodology is a case study in which has been utilized the theoretical proposition to analyze the data ... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre
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The potential of digital representation : the changing meaning of the Ife 'bronzes' from pre-colonial Ife to the post-colonial digital British Museum

Sogbesan, Oluwatoyin Zainab January 2015 (has links)
For many years, meanings and interpretations of artefacts that are taken to represent African culture including the Ife bronzes have been predominantly produced and fixed by a team of western curatorial experts (Ciolfi, 2012). Such museum practices have prevented visitors and the people being represented by the artefact from participating in the process of interpretation and meaning-making. In the particular case of the ‘Ife bronzes’, the previous meaning and implications of the Ife ‘bronzes’ as part of ‘the cradle of the world’, according to Yoruba oral traditions, are yet to be given the amount of attention they deserve. For a long time the interpretations and meanings produced by curators were drawn from the writings and accounts of earlier western travellers, explorers and colonial officials whose culture affected how the Ife bronzes have been perceived and interpreted (Coombes, 1997: Vogel, 1999). Today despite the impact of ‘the new museology’, strong traces of such biased interpretations and meanings are still evident in the framing of the Ife bronze head, exhibited at the British Museum Sainsbury African gallery as a ‘funerary object’ in postcolonial times. Such narratives highlight ‘relations of power and not relations of meanings’ (Foucault, 1980:114). These contemporary exhibitionary frames highlight the need for interpretations and meanings that will consider how changing roles, ownership, usage, political situations and geographical location have affected and will affect the Ife bronzes. In this thesis I carry out this work, documenting the social life of the Ife bronzes from pre-colonial Ife to postcolonial digital British Museum. I argue that there is a need for a new space that will encourage rewriting, revising and representing the Ife bronzes in a more capacious way to depict their changing meaning as they journeyed through time. This theory is in line with Hall (1997) and Foucault’s (1980) theories that meanings and interpretations are not static but are affected by time and changing context. The thesis therefore explores the multifaceted political, economical and sociocultural implications of the Ife bronzes. Despite these wider implications of Ife bronzes, they are still only too often shrouded in narratives that tend to validate the supremacy, civilisation and intellectual ‘supremacy’ of the West instead of substantiating the ingenuity, civilisation and intellectual capabilities of Africa. Digitisation is critically considered as offering a potential new space for representing Ife bronzes in a new light that might allow meanings with postcolonial ideology to emerge. Focusing on different periods involving the Ife bronzes (the pre-colonial, colonial and postcolonial) the thesis explores the potentials of digital representation. The thesis concludes that digital representation but only combined with a critical contextual approach, have the potentials of initiating a more thorough decolonisation of the Ife bronzes through an inclusive participatory culture.
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Reducing the risk of open display : optimising the preventive conservation of historic silks

Luxford, Naomi January 2009 (has links)
English Heritage properties contain a wealth of textiles on open display, however these are ephemeral objects. Amongst the natural fibres found in historic houses, silk is reported to be the most vulnerable to damage, especially from light. The critical deterioration factors for silk deterioration have been reassessed highlighting the important role of humidity, which has previously been overlooked. Monitoring behind a number of tapestries has recorded the formation of high humidity microclimates. This is a possible reason for the similar condition of brightly coloured samples taken from the reverse of a tapestry and the same thread which had faded on the displayed side. Kinetics experiments studied the rate of silk deterioration and suggest the activation energy is approximately 50 kJ mol-1, although this may vary for other types of silk, such as weighted materials. However as elemental analysis demonstrated around 10% of the 100 samples, taken from over 1000 objects containing silk in the English Heritage collection, were from tin-weighted silks, plain silks were the study’s focus. Year long accelerated ageing experiments have demonstrated that although the inclusion of UV radiation during light ageing increased the rate of deterioration, light ageing caused small changes to silk. Thermal ageing with different humidity levels demonstrated increasing the relative humidity (RH), increased the rate of silk deterioration significantly. Further degradation of silk was observed when samples had been contaminated by the saturated salt solution used to create the RH environment during ageing. During ageing increased RH and increased temperatures led to greater yellowing of silk samples. Experimental results have been used to make preventive conservation recommendations including lowering the RH below 50%, reducing the temperature and the continued exclusion of UV radiation. A theoretical silk deterioration curve for unweighted silk has been drawn, from which initial isoperms have been plotted. The analytical results have been compared with near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy using multivariate analysis (MVA). This developed a predictive model for the tensile strength of silk using the NIR spectra. The potential of this non-invasive, non-destructive technique to monitor silk condition in situ has been tested at Brodsworth Hall and shown to rank the condition of samples successfully.
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A influência do colecionismo na representação da memória social: análise da coleção Amidicis Tocantins

Santos, Admeire da Silva [UNESP] 17 April 2015 (has links) (PDF)
Made available in DSpace on 2015-10-06T13:03:28Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2015-04-17. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2015-10-06T13:18:29Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 000850547.pdf: 607121 bytes, checksum: 6b494bb9c8c80b2d72174816eb12fedc (MD5) / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES) / A Biblioteca Central da universidade federal de Mato Grosso conta com um acervo de coleção de obras raras e especiais que recebe o nome do colecionador: Coleção Amidicis Tocantins - CAT. O colecionador, um homem comum, mas que gostava de colecionar livros de relevância social, faleceu e deixou a coleção aos cuidados da família, que decidiu doar a coleção. O processo de doação foi intermediado pelos membros da família e a reitoria da Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso, que no período demonstrou interesse em receber a coleção. A Biblioteca Central, como muitas outras bibliotecas públicas brasileiras, passa por problemas financeiros para o tratamento adequado da coleção, seja estrutural ou de capacitação pessoal. Dessa forma, as obras pertencentes à coleção não possuem tratamento algum, o que vem gerando muitos questionamentos. E a questão aqui trabalhada é: pode uma coleção anteriormente particular representar a memória coletiva? Na busca para a resolução dessa questão, elencou-se como objetivo principal identificar e discutir a relevância de uma coleção institucionalizada na configuração da memória social, no âmbito da Ciência da Informação, por meio do estudo do caso da Coleção Amidicis Tocantins. Nesse seguimento, busca-se analisar, no âmbito da Ciência da Informação, os termos coleção, objeto, memória e lugar de memória, estabelecendo assim um diálogo entre esses conceitos; analisar in loco a Coleção Amidicis Tocantins a fim de coletar informações e interpretar por meio da literatura as questões pertinentes ao significado e finalidade da coleção; apresentar de que forma a Coleções Amidicis Tocantins pode representar a memória social e refletir nos motivos pelo qual foi escolhida pela instituição. A metodologia do trabalho é o estudo de caso, na qual se utilizou da proposição teórica para se analisar os dados, dispostos em forma analítica e texto. A Coleção Amidicis... / The Mato Grosso Federal University Central Library counts with a collection of rare and special works that receives the collector's name: Coleção Amidicis Tocantins - CAT. The collector, a common man, who liked to collect social relevant books, died and left the collection under the care of his family which decided to donate the collection. The donation process was intermediated by the family members and the Mato Grosso Federal University rector who in the period showed interest in receiving the collection. The Central Library, as many others Brazilian public universities, struggles with financial problems to give proper treatment to the collection, be it structural or of personal capacitation.This way the works that belong to the collection don't have any treatment, which has been causing many questioning s. And the question here worked is: Can a previously particular collection represent a collective memory? In the search for the resolution of this question it was ranked as the main objective to identify and discuss the relevance of an institutionalized collection in the configuration of social memory, in the Information Science scope, through the studying of the Amidicis Tocantins Collection case. In this sequence it is aimed to analyze, in the Information Science scope, the terms collection, object, memory and place of memory, establishing, there for, a dialogue between these concepts; to analyze in loco the Amidicis Tocantins Collection in order to collect information and to interpret, through the literature, the questions pertinent to the collection's meaning and finality; to present how the Amidicis Tocantins Collection can represent a social memory and reflect the motives for which it was chosen by the institution. The works methodology is a case study in which has been utilized the theoretical proposition to analyze the data displaced in an analytical form and text.The Amidicis Tocantins Collection was analyzed in the ...
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Haptic interaction with visual information : tactile exhibition as inclusive interface between museum visitors and the Bronze Bust of Sophocles

Onol, Isil January 2011 (has links)
Through creative practice research this thesis investigates the concept of touch and its application to museums with the process defined as ‘practice of touch’. The main practical outcome of this thesis is an interface between the museum visitor and an untouchable museum object as part of the object interpretation. The implementation of this idea is realised with the ‘Tactual Explorations’ project. The format of this project is a tactile exhibition consisting of virtual and conventional artworks combined. The subject of the study focuses on interaction between museum visitors and exhibits in order to create an accessible and tactile solution around museums’ ‘do not touch’ policy; without being limited to but being especially for blind and partially sighted visitors. The reason behind paying special attention to these members of the audience is the significance of the sense ‘touch’ in communicating with the world around them. While the main objective of this research is to gain more understanding of the concept of ‘touch’, on a deeper level it investigates whether or not a haptic interaction with untouchable visual information can be achieved with the aid of a creative interface between the museum visitor and an untouchable museum exhibit. By using this creative interface, the aim of the research extends to gaining a better understanding of touch through curating with information design and artistic methods. The purpose behind the idea is to form an inclusive museum experience free from assumptions of just one interpreter without rejecting the traditional methods of object interpretation. The practical outcome enhances dialogue with the existing information by paying special attention to tactile properties of a museum object through a set of artworks. The project is supported by other practical experiments in order to understand the value of visual/photographic information attached to an untouchable object and involve other scholars and artists in interpreting this information tactually. While accepting museums’ policy of ‘do not touch’, the praxis of this thesis is proposed as a method of interpretation that aims to bring in the ‘missing interactivity of touch’ through an engaging tactile exhibition of physical and virtual artworks made by various artists. In contrary to more common approaches of involving artists in interpreting museum objects, in this model created works are not inspired by the original, but directly based on its texture information in order to create haptic interaction, without using a direct replica or embossed copies. In other words, this interface is presented as an addition to the object’s formal interpretation, not to replace it. The research adopts creative practice research methodology in general; and realises it with a reflective and participatory approach borrowed from action research within interpretive research paradigm. The main research strategy deployed is practice-led. Rather than staying in the boundaries of qualitative research, the study takes guidance from the manifesto of performative research which is declared as an alternative to the qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, by offering creative approaches to conducting a research project.
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British collecting, 1656-1800 : scientific enquiry and social practice

Kell, Patricia Ellen January 1996 (has links)
No description available.
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Reinterpreting the museum : social inclusion, citizenship and the urban regeneration of Glasgow

Beel, David E. January 2011 (has links)
This thesis considers the contemporary work of the museum in the post-industrial setting of Glasgow. It interprets and understands how the museum as a space gives voice to New Labour’s concepts of social inclusion and citizenship whilst being embroiled in the wider process of urban regeneration and city enhancement. This research has been conducted using a mixed methodology incorporating policy analysis, participant observation and interviews, engaging with policy documentation, museum professionals and museum users in its goal to understand how the museum has been and is positioned within society. In exploring how museums have sought to become more socially inclusive, the research examined four different programmes in detail. These included two outreach projects; one working with adult learners and the other with different religious groups in the city. The research has also followed the contribution of a group of volunteers and finally it has engaged with the on-going processes surrounding the building of the city’s latest museum. The research findings have highlighted a complex and entangled set of power relations in the attempts to articulate social inclusion policy through the museum. This suggests, building upon the work of Foucault, that the museum embraces a soft-disciplinary power in relation to citizens. Specific programmes of the museum service targeting social inclusion reveal the benefits the individual may enjoy through participating in cultural events from which they might otherwise feel excluded. Yet, the reach of such programmes question the extent to which they are able to address social inclusion in the city. Recent developments – the production of the city’s newest museum as part of the riverside regeneration in particular – reveal how the installation of the iconic museum is closely allied to the wider project of urban economic regeneration. The planning of the Riverside Museum, however, has been attentive to the social inclusion agenda, particularly through the questions of access. Finally, the research shows how the city’s dominant growth agenda has resulted in a changing role for curators, shifting their agency away from a more traditional practice in which they were key gatekeepers, coordinating what museums displayed and how they did so, and towards a role that reflects a more scrutinised form of managerial control.

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