The Collector's Voice: Critical Readings in the Practice of Collecting: Volume 3: Modern Voices

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The Collector’s Voice is a major four-volume project which brings together in accessible form material relevant to the history and practice of collecting in the European tradition from c. 1500 BC to the present day. The series demonstrates how attitudes to objects, the collecting of objects, and the shape of the museum institution have developed over the past 3000 years. Material presented includes translations of a wide range of original documents: letters, official reports, verse, fiction, travellers' accounts, catalogues and labels. Volume 1: Ancient Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Alexandra Bounia Volume 2: Early Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Kenneth Arnold Volume 3: Imperial Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Rosemary Flanders Volume 4: Contemporary Voices, edited by Susan Pearce and Paul Martin Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents General preface to series Acknowledgements Introduction I National voices 1 The Great Exhibition of 1851, London, is created 2 The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857 is organised 3 The South Kensington Museum is established 4 Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks is appointed to the British Museum 5 The National Portrait Gallery, London, comes into being in 1856 6 The India Museum experiences mixed fortunes 7 The Germanische Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg, is formed 8 Museums in the Colony of Victoria, Australia, are established, 1857-61 9 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, comes into being 10 The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is established 11 The Philadelphia Museum of Art is created II Institutional declarations 12 Augustus Henry Pitt-Rivers describes classification and typology 13 The Musée d'Ethnographie, Paris, makes its first collections, 1877-78 14 The British Museum debates its collecting and exhibitions policy, 1885 15 The public are encouraged to participate in collecting natural history specimens 16 The press pleads for public support for expanding the collections of the American Museum of Natural History, 1895 17 Collecting for natural history exhibitions in late nineteenth-century Melbourne enjoys popular support 18 Children are inspired to collect 19 The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, gathers its first collections 20 Lord Leverhulme describes the benefits of public art collections, 1915 III Voices from the beyond 21 Giovanni Battista Belzoni discovers the tomb of Seti I in the Valley of the Kings 22 Amelia Edwards becomes a female scholar and populariser 23 Marianne Brocklehurst sails up the Nile 24 Austen Henry Layard excavates Nineveh and Babylon 25 Sir John Savile Lumley investigates the temple of Artemis at Nemi, Italy 26 Officers of the Royal Navy encounter the Inuit 27 Charles Roach Smith becomes the London archaeologist 28 Hugh Alderson Fawcett achieves a remarkable collection 29 The Harpur Crewe Family at Calke Abbey, Derbyshire 30 Charles Paget Wade creates Snowshill Manor, Gloucestershire 31 The phrenologists collect heads 32 Punch reflects society back at itself IV Literary voices 33 Charles Dickens: Bleak House 34 Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone 35 Arthur Conan Doyle: 'The Adventure of the Illustrious Client' 36 Bram Stoker: The Jewel of Seven Stars 37 H. Rider Haggard: She 38 H. G. Wells: The Time Machine 39 Arnold Bennett: 'The Death of Simon Fuge' 40 G. K. Chesterton: 'The Doom of the Darnaways' 41 M. R. James: 'The Mezzotint' 42 John Buchan: John MacNab 43 Dashiell Hammett: 'The Thin Man' 44 Victor Canning: The Golden Salamander 45 Angus Wilson: Anglo-Saxon Attitudes V Dark voices 46 The relics of murder most foul: the Red Barn 47 Museums of the macabre 48 A mortal obsession: the collecting of Egyptian mummies 49 Faking it: fakes and forgeries 50 Waterloo: the great victory 51 A soldier's life: regimental collections 52 Collecting the First World War 53 Collecting militaria 54 Art collections manipulated by the state 55 Hitler's dream of art: the culture-centre at Linz 56 Germany in 1945: concealed treasure 57 Memorial: the Holocaust Museum Bibliography Index