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The Museum As Object Of Display: Experiencing The Ashmolean, Jack Z. Chen
The Museum As Object Of Display: Experiencing The Ashmolean, Jack Z. Chen
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
Conventionally, museums are most often considered as a series of objects displayed, but I argue that the museum itself should be seen, first and foremost, as the object on display. The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, built at the high tide of British Imperialism, is a very interesting case study. Interested in its engagement with its own past, I do not seek to investigate the actions it takes as an institution, for instance, as regards to the politics of repatriation. Instead, I want to explore the whole experience it facilitates as an object in its own right.
This experience begins with …
Architecture As Memory: Gothic Ruins In The Work Of Lyonel Feininger, 1928-1953, Daria Rose Evdokimova
Architecture As Memory: Gothic Ruins In The Work Of Lyonel Feininger, 1928-1953, Daria Rose Evdokimova
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
In the summer of 1928 Lyonel Feininger made his first drawings of the ruins of a local church in the German village of Hoff. Through a series of happenstance episodes these Gothic ruins grew to haunt the artist’s entire body of work: across various media (pencil, watercolor, ink, oil), across space (in person from the Baltic coast, and later in New York from memory), and time (the motif spans three crucial decades of the artist’s career). While everything else in Feininger’s life was sent into a chaotic flurry – the banning of his works by the Weimar government, shutdown of …
A City Of Feuds: Competitive Spirit, Architecture, And Brunelleschi’S Individual Renaissance In Florence, Landen Kleisinger
A City Of Feuds: Competitive Spirit, Architecture, And Brunelleschi’S Individual Renaissance In Florence, Landen Kleisinger
Armstrong Undergraduate Journal of History
About the author:
Landen J. Kleisinger is a student of History at the University of Regina. After graduation, He plans to pursue graduate study in Soviet technological history.