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The agency of display : objects, framings and parerga
- Title
- The agency of display : objects, framings and parerga / edited by Johannes Grave, Christiane Holm, Valérie Kobi, Caroline van Eck.
- Publication
- Dresden : Sandstein Verlag, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- 192 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, portrait; 25 cm.
- Summary
- The display of artefacts always implies an external mediation that influences, and often codifies, the reception of the exhibits. Objects are manipulated, restored, appropriated, staged, in short displayed, through various representational strategies that include pedestals, labels, and showcases. These elements, that we could define as parerga, are often ignored because of their utilitarian function. Yet, they play an important role in the history of the artefacts and define the setting in which the objects can exert their agency. They not only shape their meaning, but also determine the effect that these artefacts have on their viewers. Framing devices create the conditions for interactions between the individual and the object to take place. This publication aims to explore the relation between artefacts and viewers as they are manifested in framing devices, and to develop a new theoretical framework for thinking about the power of objects on display.
- Series Statement
- Parerga and paratexts : how things enter language : practices and forms of presentation in Goethe's collections ; volume 2
- Uniform Title
- Parerga and paratexts : how things enter language : practices and forms of presentation in Goethe's collections ; v. 2.
- Alternative Title
- Objects, framings and parerga
- Subject
- Note
- "This book is the result of the conference 'Collections, displays & the agency of objects' organized in September 2017 as part of the research project 'Parerga and paratexts--how things enter language, practices and forms of presentation in Goethe's collections,' and in collaboration with the Department of History of Art in Cambridge."--p. 6.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9783954984169
- 3954984164
- OCLC
- on1062475282
- 1062475282
- SCSB-9265864
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries