Provenance - Softcover

Cockayne, Angela

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0956646204 ISBN 13: 9780956646200

Publisher: Wunderkammer Press

Synopsis

This international exhibition and symposium was initially based on a response to a rediscovered natural history collection, which originated as specimens for drawing classes used for teacher training at Bath Academy of Art in the 1950s. The collection has recently been relocated back to its original home at Corsham Court, Wiltshire. The Wunderkammer, or wonder chamber, is a non-hierarchical collection of curiosities, natural specimens, miraculous objects, and the obscure, whimsical, and wonderful which defy categorical boundaries. The exhibition and symposium explore a relationship with the history and ethics of collecting natural specimens, and address questions posed by a collision of the past, present and the future of such collections. The exhibition also examines the act of reading a collection in the absence of the original collector, and the extent to which one s interest in a collection re examines any curatorial or objective agendas. Provenance, like the wunderkammer is a commentary on the naturalistic representation of the physical world, to stimulate conversation, inspire wonder, and to provide a threshold to view our own reflection in the ambiguous connections between the natural world and humanity.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wunderkammer Press
• ISBN 10: 0956646204
• ISBN 13: 9780956646200
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English