cabinet of curiosities history: Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance Julius von Schlosser, 2021-01-19 For the first time, the pioneering book that launched the study of art and curiosity cabinets is available in English. Julius von Schlosser’s Die Kunst- und Wunderkammern der Spätrenaissance (Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance) is a seminal work in the history of art and collecting. Originally published in German in 1908, it was the first study to interpret sixteenth- and seventeenth-century cabinets of wonder as precursors to the modern museum, situating them within a history of collecting going back to Greco-Roman antiquity. In its comparative approach and broad geographical scope, Schlosser’s book introduced an interdisciplinary and global perspective to the study of art and material culture, laying the foundation for museum studies and the history of collections. Schlosser was an Austrian professor, curator, museum director, and leading figure of the Vienna School of art history whose work has not achieved the prominence of his contemporaries until now. This eloquent and informed translation is preceded by Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann’s substantial introduction. Tracing Schlosser’s biography and intellectual formation in Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, it contextualizes his work among that of his contemporaries, offering a wealth of insights along the way. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Cabinet of Curiosities Colleen Josephine Sheehy, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, 2006 |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Cabinet of Curiosities Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child, 2002-07-01 In one of NPR's 100 Best Thrillers Ever, FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty-six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house . . . and now, more than a century later, a killer strikes again. In an ancient tunnel underneath New York City a charnel house is discovered. Inside are thirty-six bodies--all murdered and mutilated more than a century ago. While FBI agent Pendergast investigates the old crimes, identical killings start to terrorize the city. The nightmare has begun. Again. |
cabinet of curiosities history: New World Objects of Knowledge Mark Thurner, Juan Pimentel, 2021-02-22 |
cabinet of curiosities history: Museum of the Americas J. Michael Martinez, 2018-10-02 Longlisted for the 2018 National Book Award in Poetry Winner of the National Poetry Series Competition, selected by Cornelius Eady--an exploration in verse of imperial appropriation and Mexican American cultural identity Marvelous, argumentative, and curiosity-provoking --The New York Times Book Review The poems in J. Michael Martinez's third collection of poetry circle around how the perceived body comes to be coded with the trans-historical consequences of an imperial narrative. Engaging beautiful and otherworldly Mexican casta paintings, morbid photographic postcards depicting the bodies of dead Mexicans, the strange journey of the wood and cork leg of General Santa Anna, and Martinez's own family lineage, Museum of the Americas gives accounts of migrant bodies caught beneath, and fashioned under, a racializing aesthetic gaze. Martinez questions how knowledge of the body is organized through visual perception of that body, hypothesizing the corporeal as a repository of the human situation, a nexus of culture. Museum of the Americas' poetic revives and repurposes the persecuted ethnic body from the appropriations that render it an art object and, therefore, diposable. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Future Remains Gregg Mitman, Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett, 2018-04-20 What can a pesticide pump, a jar full of sand, or an old calico print tell us about the Anthropocene—the age of humans? Just as paleontologists look to fossil remains to infer past conditions of life on earth, so might past and present-day objects offer clues to intertwined human and natural histories that shape our planetary futures. In this era of aggressive hydrocarbon extraction, extreme weather, and severe economic disparity, how might certain objects make visible the uneven interplay of economic, material, and social forces that shape relationships among human and nonhuman beings? Future Remains is a thoughtful and creative meditation on these questions. The fifteen objects gathered in this book resemble more the tarots of a fortuneteller than the archaeological finds of an expedition—they speak of planetary futures. Marco Armiero, Robert S. Emmett, and Gregg Mitman have assembled a cabinet of curiosities for the Anthropocene, bringing together a mix of lively essays, creatively chosen objects, and stunning photographs by acclaimed photographer Tim Flach. The result is a book that interrogates the origins, implications, and potential dangers of the Anthropocene and makes us wonder anew about what exactly human history is made of. |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Origins of Museums Oliver Impey, Arthur MacGregor, 2017-06 The Origins of Museums is an extensive account of the first great collections in late sixteenth and seventeenth century Europe. The collections, then called 'cabinets of curiosities', were the beginnings of museums as we now know them. The discovery of the New World saw a huge influx of exotic and rare exhibits arrive in from distant lands. These discoveries revolutionised the European view of the wider world. Scholars from all over the globe describe in thirty- three essays the achievements of numerous significant collectors, the range of material gathered and the impact these collections had on Late Renaissance society. With a comprehensive bibliography, the papers provide expert insight into this fascinating period of collecting history, a generally neglected subject.--Amazon.com |
cabinet of curiosities history: Wonderstruck Brian Selznick, 2015-09-03 Ben's story takes place in 1977 and is told in words. Rose's story in 1927 is told entirely in pictures. Ever since his mother died, Ben feels lost. At home with her father, Rose feels alone. When Ben finds a mysterious clue hidden in his mother's room, both children risk everything to find what's missing. |
cabinet of curiosities history: A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities Anthony Kaldellis, 2017-09-01 Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented a worthless collection of miracles, a disgrace for the human mind; for Hegel, it was a disgusting picture of imbecility. A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities will churn up these old prejudices, while also stimulating a deeper interest among readers in one of history's most interesting civilizations. Many of the zanier tales and trivia that are collected here revolve around the political and religious life of Byzantium. Thus, stories of saints, relics, and their miracles-from the hilarious to the revolting-abound. Byzantine bureaucracy (whence the adjective Byzantine), court scandals, and elaborate penal code are world famous. And what would Byzantium be without its eunuchs, whose ambiguous gender produced odd and risible outcomes in different contexts? The book also contains sections on daily life that are equally eye-opening, including food (from aphrodisiacs to fermented fish sauce), games such as polo and acrobatics, and obnoxious views of foreigners and others (e.g., Germans, Catholics, Arabs, dwarves). But lest we overlook Byzantium's more honorable contributions to civilization, also included are some of the marvels of Byzantine science and technology, from the military (flamethrowers and hand grenades) to the theatrical (elevator thrones, roaring mechanical lions) and medical (catheters and cures, some bizarre). This vast assortment of historical anomaly and absurdity sheds vital light on one of history's most obscure and orthodox empires. |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History Frederick E. Hoxie, 2016 The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. It describes the major aspects of the historical change that occurred over the past 500 years with essays by leading experts, both Native and non-Native, that focus on significant moments of upheaval and change. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Mr. Peale's Museum Charles Coleman Sellers, 1980 Charles Willson Peale was not only one of our finest early American painters, but also the founder of the world's first popular museum of natural science and art. |
cabinet of curiosities history: A Parisian Cabinet of Curiosities: Deyrolle Prince Louis Albert de Broglie, 2017-12-05 This handsome gift volume celebrates a world-famous temple to taxidermy and the natural world, where extraordinary curiosities highlight the intersection of science and art. With an abundance of preserved flora and fauna, taxidermy, and otherworldly creations, the Deyrolle boutique is dedicated to showcasing the beauty of nature. A family venture founded in the spirit of discovery, Deyrolle has a 185-year history that is a Pandora’s box of scientific and aesthetic discoveries. Deyrolle flourished under the nineteenth-century passion for natural history, garnering celebrity devotees from Dalí to Nabokov, and quickly established itself as a center for education and research. A vocal advocate of sustainability and responsible business practices in the fields of taxidermy and entomology, Deyrolle works only with creatures that have expired from natural causes. Raising awareness for causes such as World Rhino Day, Deyrolle combines science and art, lightheartedness and engagement. This book provides fascinating insight into the history and day-to-day workings of this unique Parisian institution. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Cabinets for the Curious Ken Arnold, 2017-03-02 The last few years has, within museums, witnessed nothing short of a revolution. Worried that the very institution was itself in danger of becoming a dusty, forgotten, culturally irrelevant exhibit, vigorous efforts have been made to reshape the museum mission. Fearing that history was coming to be ignored by modern society, many institutions have instead marketed a de-intellectualised heritage, overly relying on computer technology to captivate a contemporary audience. The theme of this work is that we can do much to reassess the rationale that inspires contemporary collections through a study of seventeenth century museums. England's first museums were quite literally wonderful; founded that is on the disciplined application of the faculty of wonder. The type of wonder employed was not that post-Romantic idea of disbelief, but rather an active form of curiosity developed during the Renaissance, particularly by the individuals who set about gathering objects and founding museums to further their enquiries. The argument put forward in this book is that this museological practice of using objects actually to create, as well as disseminate knowledge makes just as much sense today as it did in the seventeenth century and, further, that the best way of reinvigorating contemporary museums, is to return to that form of wonder. By taking such a comparative approach, this book works both as a scholarly historical text, and as an historically informed analysis of the key issues facing today's museums. As such, it will prove essential reading both for historians of collecting and museums, and for anyone interested in the philosophies of modern museum management. |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Tradescants Mea Allan, 1964 |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Cabinet of Curiosities Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire Legrand, Emma Trevayne, 2014-05-27 A collection of thirty-six forty eerie, mysterious, intriguing, and very short stories by the acclaimed authors Stefan Bachmann, Katherine Catmull, Claire LeGrand, and Emma Trevayne. The Cabinet of Curiosities is perfect for fans of Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and anyone who relishes a good creepy tale. Great for reading alone or reading aloud at camp or school! The book features an introduction and commentary by the authors and black-and-white illustrations throughout. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Hidden Museum Shaun Parr, 2017-08-29 A cabinet of intricately drawn curiosities behind which are hiding further illustrations that reveal the objects' true nature. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Cabinets of Wonder Christine Davenne, 2012-10-01 Translation of Cabinets de curiosites, published in Paris by Martiniere in 2011. |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Unnatural History Museum Viktor Wynd, 2020-03-10 Viktor Wynd, master of the contemporary Wunderkabinett, is back with a collection of artifacts and curiosities that are more bizarre and wonderful than ever. For over a decade, from a tiny storefront in east London, the artist Viktor Wynd has been reinventing the cabinet of curiosities for the 21st century. The Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities, Fine Art & UnNatural History is now one of the city's most tantalizing tourist destinations. Wynd first introduced his worldview in the book Viktor Wynd's Cabinet of Wonders, which John Waters called an insanely delightful how-to guide...told with lunatic humor and absolute joy. In this new volume, he takes readers on a tour inside his mildly-twisted mind, delving deeper into his philosophy of collecting, and describing personal connections to the objects he treasures. Written in his trademark charismatic style, which blends whimsical stories with odd facts and obscure references, this book is filled with lavish and theatrical photographs and drawings. Loosely organized into thematic chapters, it ponders the beauty of skulls and masks; explores beasts, freaks, monsters, fairies, and mermaids; covers magical plants, hallucinogens, erotica, and dandies; and dips into the world of the occult. This might not be a book for everyone. However, it is a book everyone interested in cabinets of curiosities should have on their shelf. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Inside the Lost Museum Steven Lubar, 2017-08-07 Curators make many decisions when they build collections or design exhibitions, plotting a passage of discovery that also tells an essential story. Collecting captures the past in a way useful to the present and the future. Exhibits play to our senses and orchestrate our impressions, balancing presentation and preservation, information and emotion. Curators consider visitors’ interactions with objects and with one another, how our bodies move through displays, how our eyes grasp objects, how we learn and how we feel. Inside the Lost Museum documents the work museums do and suggests ways these institutions can enrich the educational and aesthetic experience of their visitors. Woven throughout Inside the Lost Museum is the story of the Jenks Museum at Brown University, a nineteenth-century display of natural history, anthropology, and curiosities that disappeared a century ago. The Jenks Museum’s past, and a recent effort by artist Mark Dion, Steven Lubar, and their students to reimagine it as art and history, serve as a framework for exploring the long record of museums’ usefulness and service. Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every collection and exhibition. Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples. Inside the Lost Museum speaks to the hunt, the find, and the reveal that make curating and visiting exhibitions and using collections such a rewarding and vital pursuit. |
cabinet of curiosities history: A History of Curiosity Justin Stagl, 2012-11-12 First Published in 2002. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a criticalhistorical perspective. The three principal methods of research, travel, the survey and the collection of significant objects, are studied in the context of the social conditions and intellectual trends of early modern times. The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership outside purely academic boundaries. He weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasising links between the figures, the philosophies and the literatures of early modern times; links which have previously only been suspected. In focussing on the ars apodemica, or art of travelling'', a body of formal instructions on how to travel, observe and record the information gathered, the author demonstrates the origins of the characteristic inquisitive and systematizing spirit of the modern West. |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Night Circus Erin Morgenstern, 2011-09-13 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Two starcrossed magicians engage in a deadly game of cunning in the spellbinding novel that captured the world's imagination. • Part love story, part fable ... defies both genres and expectations. —The Boston Globe The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them both, this is a game in which only one can be left standing. Despite the high stakes, Celia and Marco soon tumble headfirst into love, setting off a domino effect of dangerous consequences, and leaving the lives of everyone, from the performers to the patrons, hanging in the balance. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Righting America at the Creation Museum Susan L. Trollinger, William Vance Trollinger Jr., 2016-05-15 What does the popularity of the Creation Museum tell us about the appeal of the Christian right? On May 28, 2007, the Creation Museum opened in Petersburg, Kentucky. Aimed at scientifically demonstrating that the universe was created less than ten thousand years ago by a Judeo-Christian god, the museum is hugely popular, attracting millions of visitors over the past eight years. Surrounded by themed topiary gardens and a petting zoo with camel rides, the site conjures up images of a religious Disneyland. Inside, visitors are met by dinosaurs at every turn and by a replica of the Garden of Eden that features the Tree of Life, the serpent, and Adam and Eve. In Righting America at the Creation Museum, Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr., take readers on a fascinating tour of the museum. The Trollingers vividly describe and analyze its vast array of exhibits, placards, dioramas, and videos, from the Culture in Crisis Room, where videos depict sinful characters watching pornography or considering abortion, to the Natural Selection Room, where placards argue that natural selection doesn’t lead to evolution. The book also traces the rise of creationism and the history of fundamentalism in America. This compelling book reveals that the Creation Museum is a remarkably complex phenomenon, at once a “natural history” museum at odds with contemporary science, an extended brief for the Bible as the literally true and errorless word of God, and a powerful and unflinching argument on behalf of the Christian right. |
cabinet of curiosities history: The History and Antiquities of the Parish of Lambeth, and the Archiepiscopal Palace, in the County of Surrey, Including Biographical Sketches Thomas Allen, 1826 |
cabinet of curiosities history: An Alternative History of Pittsburgh Ed Simon, 2021-05-04 “[An] epic, atomic history of the Steel City . . . a work of literature, a series of linked creative nonfiction essays, an historical story cycle.” ―Phillip Maciak, Los Angeles Review of Books The land surrounding the confluence of the Allegheny, Monongahela, and Ohio rivers has supported communities of humans for millennia. Over the past four centuries, however, it has been transformed countless times by the many people who call it home. In this brief, lyrical, and idiosyncratic collection, Ed Simon, a staff writer at The Millions, follows the story of Pittsburgh through a series of interconnected segments, covering all manner of beloved people, places, and things, including: • Paleolithic Pittsburgh • The Whiskey Rebellion • The attempted assassination of Henry Frick • The Harmonists • The Mystery, Pittsburgh’s radical, Black nationalist newspaper • The myth of Joe Magarac • Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington, Andy Warhol, and much, much more. Accessible and funny, An Alternative History of Pittsburgh is a must-read for anyone curious about this storied city, and for Pittsburghers who think they know it all too well already. “[A] rich and idiosyncratic history . . . Even Pittsburgh history buffs will learn something new.” —Publishers Weekly “Simon tells the story of the city and all the changes that made it what it is today in a way that's entirely new, by the hand of someone who is deeply familiar.” ―Juliana Rose Pignataro, Newsweek “A sparkling new take on everyone’s favorite Rust Belt metropolis.” ―Justin Velluci, Jewish Chronicle “A brilliant look at how geology and art, politics and religion, disaster and luck combine to build America’s great cities―one that will leave you wondering what secrets your own hometown might be hiding.” ―Anjali Sachdeva, author of All the Names They Used for God |
cabinet of curiosities history: A Cabinet of Medical Curiosities Jan Bondeson, 2019-01-24 Long ago, curiosities were arranged in cabinets for display: a dried mermaid might be next to a giant's shinbone, the skeletons of conjoined twins beside an Egyptian mummy. In ten essays, Jan Bondeson brings a physician's diagnostic skills to various unexpected, gruesome, and extraordinary aspects of the history of medicine: spontaneous human combustion, colonies of snakes and frogs living in a person's stomach, kings and emperors devoured by lice, vicious tribes of tailed men, and the Two-Headed Boy of Bengal. Bondeson tells the story of Mary Toft, who gained notoriety in 1726 when she allegedly gave birth to seventeen rabbits. King George I, the Prince of Wales, and the court physicians attributed these monstrous births to a maternal impression because Mary had longed for a meal of rabbit while pregnant. Bondeson explains that the fallacy of maternal impressions, conspicuous in the novels of Goethe, Sir Walter Scott, and Charles Dickens, has ancient roots in Chinese and Babylonian manuscripts. Bondeson also presents the tragic case of Julia Pastrana, a Mexican Indian woman with thick hair growing over her body and a massive overgrowth of the gums that gave her a simian or ape-like appearance. Called the Ape Woman, she was exhibited all over the world. After her death in 1860, Julia's husband, who had also been her impresario, had her body mummified and continued to exhibit it throughout Europe. Bondeson tracked the mummy down and managed to diagnose Julia Pastrana's condition as the result of a rare genetic syndrome. |
cabinet of curiosities history: A Cabinet of Curiosities Stephen E. Weil, 1995 |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Filing Cabinet Craig Robertson, 2021-05-25 The history of how a deceptively ordinary piece of office furniture transformed our relationship with information The ubiquity of the filing cabinet in the twentieth-century office space, along with its noticeable absence of style, has obscured its transformative role in the histories of both information technology and work. In the first in-depth history of this neglected artifact, Craig Robertson explores how the filing cabinet profoundly shaped the way that information and data have been sorted, stored, retrieved, and used. Invented in the 1890s, the filing cabinet was a result of the nineteenth-century faith in efficiency. Previously, paper records were arranged haphazardly: bound into books, stacked in piles, curled into slots, or impaled on spindles. The filing cabinet organized loose papers in tabbed folders that could be sorted alphanumerically, radically changing how people accessed, circulated, and structured information. Robertson’s unconventional history of the origins of the information age posits the filing cabinet as an information storage container, an “automatic memory” machine that contributed to a new type of information labor privileging manual dexterity over mental deliberation. Gendered assumptions about women’s nimble fingers helped to naturalize the changes that brought women into the workforce as low-level clerical workers. The filing cabinet emerges from this unexpected account as a sophisticated piece of information technology and a site of gendered labor that with its folders, files, and tabs continues to shape how we interact with information and data in today’s digital world. |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Origins of Museums Oliver Impey, Arthur MacGregor, 2000 A comprehensive account of an extraordinary phenomenon which developed in 16th- and 17th-century Europe - the cabinet of curiosities or Wunderkammer - in which are to be found the beginnings of museums as we know them. Cabinets reflected all the intellectual curiosity of the age. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Curiosity Brian Dillon, Marina Warner, Roger Malbert, 2013 Artists featured include Tacita Dean, Katie Paterson, Nina Canell, Pablo Bronstein, Charles Le Brun, Gerard Byrne, Phillip Henry Gosse, John Dee, Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin, Corinne May Botz, Gunda Forster, Matt Mullican, Toril Johannessen, Anna Atkins, Nina Katchadourian, Laurent Grasso, Salvatore Arancio, Aurelien Froment, Leopold and Rudolph Blaschka, and the taxidermy of Thomas Grunfeld. |
cabinet of curiosities history: A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities J. C. McKeown, 2010-06-01 Here is a whimsical and captivating collection of odd facts, strange beliefs, outlandish opinions, and other highly amusing trivia of the ancient Romans. We tend to think of the Romans as a pragmatic people with a ruthlessly efficient army, an exemplary legal system, and a precise and elegant language. A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities shows that the Romans were equally capable of bizarre superstitions, logic-defying customs, and often hilariously derisive views of their fellow Romans and non-Romans. Classicist J. C. McKeown has organized the entries in this entertaining volume around major themes--The Army, Women, Religion and Superstition, Family Life, Medicine, Slaves, Spectacles--allowing for quick browsing or more deliberate consumption. Among the book's many gems are: BL Romans on urban living: The satirist Juvenal lists fires, falling buildings, and poets reciting in August as hazards to life in Rome. BL On enhanced interrogation: If we are obliged to take evidence from an arena-fighter or some other such person, his testimony is not to be believed unless given under torture. (Justinian) BL On dreams: Dreaming of eating books foretells advantage to teachers, lecturers, and anyone who earns his livelihood from books, but for everyone else it means sudden death BL On food: When people unwittingly eat human flesh, served by unscrupulous restaurant owners and other such people, the similarity to pork is often noted. (Galen) BL On marriage: In ancient Rome a marriage could be arranged even when the parties were absent, so long as they knew of the arrangement, or agreed to it subsequently. BL On health care: Pliny caustically described medical bills as a down payment on death, and Martial quipped that Diaulus used to be a doctor, now he's a mortician. He does as a mortician what he did as a doctor. For anyone seeking an inglorious glimpse at the underside of the greatest empire in history, A Cabinet of Roman Curiosities offers endless delights. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Seven Skeletons Lydia Pyne, 2016-08-16 An irresistible journey of discovery, science, history, and myth making, told through the lives and afterlives of seven famous human ancestors Over the last century, the search for human ancestors has spanned four continents and resulted in the discovery of hundreds of fossils. While most of these discoveries live quietly in museum collections, there are a few that have become world-renowned celebrity personas—ambassadors of science that speak to public audiences. In Seven Skeletons, historian of science Lydia Pyne explores how seven such famous fossils of our ancestors have the social cachet they enjoy today. Drawing from archives, museums, and interviews, Pyne builds a cultural history for each celebrity fossil—from its discovery to its afterlife in museum exhibits to its legacy in popular culture. These seven include the three-foot tall “hobbit” from Flores, the Neanderthal of La Chapelle, the Taung Child, the Piltdown Man hoax, Peking Man, Australopithecus sediba, and Lucy—each embraced and celebrated by generations, and vivid examples of how discoveries of how our ancestors have been received, remembered, and immortalized. With wit and insight, Pyne brings to life each fossil, and how it is described, put on display, and shared among scientific communities and the broader public. This fascinating, endlessly entertaining book puts the impact of paleoanthropology into new context, a reminder of how our past as a species continues to affect, in astounding ways, our present culture and imagination. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Viktor Wynd's Cabinet of Wonders Viktor Wynd, 2014 Let the inimitable aesthete Viktor Wynd guide you through a subversive celebration of curiosities, art, mess, decay, and self indulgence, passionately arguing that the world is full of wonder that is in danger of being sanitized and that collectors are the ultimate artists. The book visits rarified locations lovingly curated by bohemians and artists: from a rambling Devon farmhouse and its historic taxidermy to an Italianate villa in East London to the House of Dreams Museum. It also includes advice on how to start a collection of your own, covering details on auction houses, private dealers, flea markets and fairs, and shows that having distinctive taste does not necessarily require a massive budget. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Wunderkammer Tod Williams, Billie Tsien, 2013-12-10 Catalogo di una mostra in cui vengono esposti oggetti d'affezione proposti ai due curatori da architetti e studi di architettura. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals. 2d Ed., Rev. and Enl Avery Library, 1990 |
cabinet of curiosities history: A Cabinet of Rarities Special Ed Desmazieres Erik, 2012-09-01 Erik Desmazieres is acknowledged as a contemporary master of the art of etching. With breathtaking virtuosity, he recreates interiors, cityscapes, landscapes and fantastical compositions from a Piranesian world. Any new work Desmazieres produces is a bibliophiles delight; and this book, the first in which he uses colour, reimagines the arcane world of the cabinet of curiosities: antiquarian collections of the recondite, rare and bizarre, which reminded the viewer of the vanity of earthly life. Patrick Mauriess text is in three parts. The first locates Desmazieres and his work in the long tradition of artist-printmakers; the second surveys the world of 17th-century antiquarianism and its intriguing cast of characters (John Evelyn, John Aubrey and, above all, Thomas Browne, plus many of their continental counterparts); and in the third Mauries examines today's reawakened interest in cabinets of rarities and curiosities, and considers how a phenomenon once considered the preserve of specialists has entered the cultural mainstream. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Das Naturalienkabinett Albertus Seba, Irmgard Müsch, Jes Rust, Rainer Willmann, 2015 Exotic plants, corals and crocodiles, birds and butterflies. Albertus Seba's extraordinary catalog of natural specimens is not only one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements, but also one of the most prized natural history books of all time. It is a beautiful tribute to the breadth and the detail of creatures great and... |
cabinet of curiosities history: Curiosity and Enlightenment Arthur MacGregor, 2007 Offers a history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries, tracing its origins from the culture of collecting that emerged during the Renaissance, which served the purposes of both prestige and academic enquiry. |
cabinet of curiosities history: The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities Ann VanderMeer, Jeff VanderMeer, 2011-07-12 “Some of the most interesting fantasist-fabulists writing today,” including China Miéville, Mike Mignola, Ted Chiang, Holly Black, and others (Los Angeles Times). You’ll be astonished by what you’ll find in The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities. Editors Ann and Jeff Vandermeer have gathered together a spectacular array of exhibits, oddities, images, and stories by some of the most renowned and bestselling writers and artists in speculative and graphic fiction, including Ted Chiang, Mike Mignola (creator of Hellboy), China Miéville, and Michael Moorcock. A spectacularly illustrated anthology of Victorian steampunk devices and the stories behind them, The Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities is a boldly original, enthrallingly imaginative, and endlessly entertaining entry into a hidden world of weird science and unnatural nature that will appeal equally to fantasy lovers and graphic novel aficionados. “A book likely to become a classic at the intersection of fantasy, horror, steampunk and magical realism . . . Every fantasy lover, and all you postmodernists out there, need to take a tour of the Cabinet.” —PopMatters “Working with an impressive stable of sf and fantasy writers, including Holly Black, Cherie Priest, Tad Williams, and Lev Grossman, and styles ranging from short, detailed write-ups to fascinating tales of objects, the duo have created a fascinating, entertaining, and intriguing tome of sf with a dose of steampunk.” —Library Journal (starred review) “A science-fiction symphony of strangeness . . . The Cabinet of Curiosities will give you a good jolt of wonder.” —Gainesville Times “A book that will be absolutely cherished by fantasy, science fiction, and steampunk aficionados alike.” —Paul Goat Allen |
cabinet of curiosities history: Company Curiosities Arthur MacGregor, 2018 For nearly three hundred years, the East India Company dominated British trade and relations with Asia. It made handsome profits for shareholders but also provided collectors in Europe with natural specimens and man-made rarities that were prized for their scientific, aesthetic or cultural value. An array of administrators, soldiers, surveyors spent much of their lives attempting to inventory and to comprehend India's vast country, its teeming populations and its myriad rituals and wildlife: nearly forty species of mammals and over 120 species of birds were discovered in the Katmandu valley alone; astonishing wall paintings from the fifth-century were unearthed in caves at Ajanta; and spectacular fossil fauna arrived from the Siwalik Hills. Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874 offers the first-ever overview of the remarkable role of the East India Company and its servants in collecting and showcasing a treasure-house of natural specimens and man-made objects - craft materials, paintings and sculptures, weapons, costumes, jewels and ornaments - that established the look and the feel of India for those who had never ventured abroad. Arthur MacGregor tells the stories behind the remarkable discoveries and collections, and those responsible for them, and their impact on natural science, commerce and industry, and personal taste. |
cabinet of curiosities history: Universal Collection Mary-Kay Lombino, Elizabeth Nogrady, 2016-09 |
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of a cabinet of curiosity, which was assembled by Neapolitan apothe-cary Ferrante Imperato, dates to 1599. In it, books line one wall, opposite stuffed birds guarding cupboards of specimen …
Cabinets of Curiosities as a Transhistorical and Intermedial
Cabinets of curiosities are an example of quali fied media that thrived in Europe between 1540 and 1740 (Bredekamp 1995: 28). A common stereotypical view presents the cabinet of …
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copper rooftops of the New York Museum of Natural History, past the cupolas and minarets and gargoyle-haunted towers, across the leafy expanse of Central Park.
Modern Cabinet of Curiosities: The Continued Human Interest …
“Cabinets of Curiosities” or Wunderkammer. These cabinets of curiosities were the awe of Victorian society, a society that prided itself on its power over the world and how to show it. …
caBinetS of curioSitieS — tracinG the eluSive afterlife of a …
a series of catalogues on the natural history collections in particular: these included volumes on plants (1828), mammals (1851) and birds (two volumes, 1854 – 8)―a range of systematic …
CABINET of CURIOSITIES
Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Kunstkammer, Wunderkammer, Cabinets of Wonder, or wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical boundaries …
The L.C. Bates Museum Marine Biology Gallery: - Colby College
Museum, this paper discusses the history of cabinets of curiosities, including the reasons for their disfavor and the reasons for their recent comeback. This paper also aims at considering the …
Sarah M. Vlasity. The Cabinet of Curiosities: Recreating the ...
This paper explores the role of cabinets of curiosities in facilitating the creation of knowledge. Furthermore, it aims to address the question: can modern museums draw on past practices to …
A Cabinet of Curiosities - Semantic Scholar
Pomian 1990 offers a comprehensive history of the cabinet of curiosities from 1500 to 1800. Macdonald 2006, 84 locates this turn in the seventeenth century, while Kohl 2003, 241–244 …
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History The term cabinet originally described a room rather than a piece of furniture. The classic cabinet of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century, although more rudimentary collections …
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home Cabinet of Curiosities is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the wonders of natural history and the joys of being an amateur scientist and collector Nature writer Gordon Grice who …
The Cabinet of Curiosities - JANE WATT PROJECTS
Wunderkammer or cabinet of curiosities came to prominence in the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries as a way of understanding and imagining the world. Private collections of …
Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities Brochure
Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities is a contemporary adaptation of a centuries-old phenomenon. Known in German as the Wunderkammer (“chamber of wonder”), these cabinets …
A CONTEMPORARY REINTERPRETATION OF “CABINETS OF …
NEW YORK, July 30, 2008—The Museum of Modern Art presents Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, a contemporary reinterpretation of the centuries-old European “cabinet of …
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Cabinet Of Curiosities History: Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance Julius von Schlosser,2021-01-19 For the first time the pioneering book that launched the study of art and …
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history of the museum. We meet Patrick O'Shaughnessy, a police officer unexpectedly dragged into the unfolding mystery involving historical murders connected to the Shottum Cabinet. …
The Museum at FIT presents Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of …
cabinets of curiosities and fashion. Also known as wunderkammern in German, cabinets of curiosities can be traced back to the early 16th century. They were precursors to the modern …
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Curiosities Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child,2002-07-01 In one of NPR s 100 Best Thrillers Ever FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house and …
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The Cabinet of Curiosities: European Origins and the Colonial American Context The entrance hall is best understood as a remap-ping of the European Kunst- und Wunderkammer (a room …
Cabinets of Curiosities and the Organization of Knowledge
In what follows, two significant figures emerge from the seven-teenth century, Cassiano dal Pozzo (1588–1657) and John Evelyn (1620– 1706), who located in the cabinet of curiosities a …
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of a cabinet of curiosity, which was assembled by Neapolitan apothe-cary Ferrante Imperato, dates to 1599. In it, books line one wall, opposite stuffed birds guarding cupboards of …
Cabinets of Curiosities as a Transhistorical and Intermedial …
Cabinets of curiosities are an example of quali fied media that thrived in Europe between 1540 and 1740 (Bredekamp 1995: 28). A common stereotypical view presents the cabinet of …
The Cabinet of Curiosities - READERS LIBRARY
copper rooftops of the New York Museum of Natural History, past the cupolas and minarets and gargoyle-haunted towers, across the leafy expanse of Central Park.
Modern Cabinet of Curiosities: The Continued Human …
“Cabinets of Curiosities” or Wunderkammer. These cabinets of curiosities were the awe of Victorian society, a society that prided itself on its power over the world and how to show it. …
caBinetS of curioSitieS — tracinG the eluSive afterlife of a …
a series of catalogues on the natural history collections in particular: these included volumes on plants (1828), mammals (1851) and birds (two volumes, 1854 – 8)―a range of systematic …
CABINET of CURIOSITIES
Cabinets of curiosities (also known as Kunstkammer, Wunderkammer, Cabinets of Wonder, or wonder-rooms) were encyclopedic collections of types of objects whose categorical …
The L.C. Bates Museum Marine Biology Gallery: - Colby …
Museum, this paper discusses the history of cabinets of curiosities, including the reasons for their disfavor and the reasons for their recent comeback. This paper also aims at considering the …
Sarah M. Vlasity. The Cabinet of Curiosities: Recreating the ...
This paper explores the role of cabinets of curiosities in facilitating the creation of knowledge. Furthermore, it aims to address the question: can modern museums draw on past practices to …
A Cabinet of Curiosities - Semantic Scholar
Pomian 1990 offers a comprehensive history of the cabinet of curiosities from 1500 to 1800. Macdonald 2006, 84 locates this turn in the seventeenth century, while Kohl 2003, 241–244 …
Cabinet of curiosities - unixploria.net
History The term cabinet originally described a room rather than a piece of furniture. The classic cabinet of curiosities emerged in the sixteenth century, although more rudimentary collections …
History Of Cabinet Of Curiosities (Download Only)
home Cabinet of Curiosities is a lavishly illustrated introduction to the wonders of natural history and the joys of being an amateur scientist and collector Nature writer Gordon Grice who …
The Cabinet of Curiosities - JANE WATT PROJECTS
Wunderkammer or cabinet of curiosities came to prominence in the sixteenth through to the nineteenth centuries as a way of understanding and imagining the world. Private collections of …
Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities Brochure
Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities is a contemporary adaptation of a centuries-old phenomenon. Known in German as the Wunderkammer (“chamber of wonder”), these …
A CONTEMPORARY REINTERPRETATION OF …
NEW YORK, July 30, 2008—The Museum of Modern Art presents Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, a contemporary reinterpretation of the centuries-old European “cabinet of …
Cabinet Of Curiosities History (book) - old.icapgen.org
Cabinet Of Curiosities History: Art and Curiosity Cabinets of the Late Renaissance Julius von Schlosser,2021-01-19 For the first time the pioneering book that launched the study of art and …
The Cabinet of Curiosities - cdn.bookey.app
history of the museum. We meet Patrick O'Shaughnessy, a police officer unexpectedly dragged into the unfolding mystery involving historical murders connected to the Shottum Cabinet. …
The Museum at FIT presents Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet …
cabinets of curiosities and fashion. Also known as wunderkammern in German, cabinets of curiosities can be traced back to the early 16th century. They were precursors to the modern …
Cabinet Of Curiosities History (Download Only)
Curiosities Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child,2002-07-01 In one of NPR s 100 Best Thrillers Ever FBI agent Pendergast discovers thirty six murdered bodies in a New York City charnel house and …