| Description |
xiv, 107 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface -- Lyndel King -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Restaging the Cabinet of Curiosities -- Colleen J. Sheehy -- Contemporary Museums and the Cabinet of Curiosities -- A Walrus Head in the Art Museum: Mark Dion Digs into the University of Minnesota -- Colleen J. Sheehy -- A Conversation with Mark Dion -- Bill Horrigan -- Curiosity Cabinets, Museums, and Universities -- E. Bruce Robertson -- Student Curators Reflect on Cabinet of Curiosities -- The Bezoar -- Objects and Facts -- Cabinet of Humankind: Creating and Questioning Values -- Curator of the Air -- The Cabinet of the Library or Archive -- Exploring the Universe within the University -- Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities Exhibition Checklist -- University of Minnesota Collections -- University of Minnesota Herbarium, Bell Museum of Natural History -- University of Minnesota Insect Collection, Bell Museum of Natural History -- Veterinary Anatomy Museum -- Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies -- Children's Literature Research Collections -- Department of Special Collections and Rare Books -- Weisman Art Museum -- Collections of the Newton Horace Winchell School of Earth Sciences -- Natural History Art Collection, Bell Museum of Natural History -- The Givens Collection of African American Literature -- Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies at the University of Minnesota -- The Humphrey Forum -- The Goldstein Museum of Design -- Fish, Amphibian, and Reptile Collections, Bell Museum of Natural History -- The Jean-Nickolaus Tretter Collection in Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies -- Ornithological Collections, Bell Museum of Natural History -- Plates from Mark Dion: Cabinet of Curiosities begin after page XXX |
| Summary |
"Mark Dion, working in collaboration with students, curators, and museum staff, created the installation Cabinet of Curiosities at the Weisman Art Museum at the University of Minnesota. This exhibition, which featured more than seven hundred objects from university collections such as the Veterinary Anatomy Museum, Jane Goodall Institute's Center for Primate Studies, and the Goldstein Museum of Design, represented the university in miniature, just as the cabinet of wonder of the Renaissance attempted to depict microcosms of the world. From a freeze-dried cow lung to Paul Bunyan's ring to a bowler hat owned by Hubert H. Humphrey to a meteorite - and so much more - Cabinet of Curiosities reveals how the phenomenon of collecting has influenced the acquisition and creation of knowledge within universities and Western Society."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Catalog of an exhibition "Mark Dion: cabinet of curiosities" at the Weisman Art Museum from Feb. 24-May 27, 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Dion, Mark, 1961- -- Exhibitions.
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Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum -- Exhibitions.
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University of Minnesota -- Exhibitions.
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Cabinets of curiosities -- Exhibitions.
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Cabinets of curiosities.
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Installations (Art) -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.
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Museum techniques -- Exhibitions.
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Site-specific installations (Art) -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis -- Exhibitions.
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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| Author |
Sheehy, Colleen J. (Colleen Josephine), 1953-
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Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum.
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| LC no. |
2006028171 |
| ISBN |
0816644705 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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9780816644704 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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