Material memories : design and evocation /
Contributor(s): Kwint, Marius | Breward, Christopher | Aynsley, Jeremy.
Series: Materializing culture.Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Berg, 1999Description: xiv, 257 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 185973247X; 9781859732472 :; 1859732526 (pbk.).Subject(s): Memory -- Congresses | Material culture | Design -- Psychological aspects -- Congresses | Memory | Material culture -- Congresses | Symbolic anthropology -- CongressesDDC classification: 745.409Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Notes from a conference of the History of Design postgraduate programme of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal College of Art
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.
This illustrated book is an attempt to understand the intersection of memory and material culture by providing an interdisciplinary forum for its analysis.