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Claude Laurent, Transverse Flute in D-flat, 1813

Glass, brass

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Archives 001: Dunes #quentincastiel #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #adobephotoshop #adobe #adobecreativecloud #sanddunes #sand #desert #met #metcollection #dirtbike #bike (at Sand Dunes) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9muIlZFcpk/?igshid=i161k7zwy7vf

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From funerary grave markers, to pouring and storage vessels, and drinking cups, these are some of the vessels of Met's Greek collection, spanning from the Geometric to the Hellenistic period. . . . . . . . . . . #archaeology #pottery #ancientgreece #classicalgreece #classical #Hellinistic #geometric #metcollection #metropolitanmuseumofart #metropolitanmuseum #newyorkcity #newyork #ancientgreece #greece #greekworld #ancientpainting #archaeologistsontour #museumlover #museum #photooftheday #photooninstagram #instaphoto #photo #ελλαδα #αρχαιολογία #αρχαιαελλαδα (at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ccf81KaKGj9/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Title: Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (from Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci, from Drawings by Wincelslaus Hollar, out of the Portland Museum)

Sitter: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise)

Date: 1786

Medium: Aquatint and etching

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Sure to brighten your day.

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Follow this link to more information & photos of this wonderful Tibetan Armor Mask at the Met in NYC- https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metcollects/tibetan-war-mask

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Cecil Beaton. Portrait of Charles James Сесил Битон. Портрет Чарльза Джеймса 1936 beyondfashion designer

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Thomas Hart Benton's Mural "America Today" | MetCollects

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To all the artists across the world, we salute you today and every day. 🗺 ❤️⁣

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We’re celebrating #WorldArtDay with a peek at just a few of the countless representations of makers across time and space in The Met collection—from painters to photographers to weavers. ⁣

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Feeling inspired? Head to the link in bio for more artworks and artists in the #MetCollection from across the globe.⁣

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🎨 Attributed to the Group of Boston 00.348 (Ancient Greek, South Italian, Apulian). Detail from terracotta column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), ca. 360–350 B.C. On view in Gallery 160.

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🎨 Gordon H. Coster (American, 1906–1988). [Portrait/Self-Portrait with Speed Graphic Camera], ca. 1932. Photograph and print by Gordon Coster.

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🎨 Norman de Garis Davies (1865–1941). Facsimile of Weavers, Tomb of Khnumhotep, ca. 1897–1878 B.C.

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🎨 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard (French, 1749–1803). Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, 1785. On view in Gallery 616.

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🎨 Samuel Joseph Brown, Jr. (American, 1907–1994). Self-Portrait, ca. 1941. On view in Gallery 902.

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Dreaming - more adventures with collage

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Week 5

Week 5 Collections 2

This week we review framing of the museum as institution in relation to collection, curation and display and explore the Design Museum as specific type. We consider how design collections can represent social issues and marginalised identities and the agency of the curators role in enabling social  visibility. In Part 2 we look at further  examples of personal collections.

Part 1  Dr Jacquie Naismith

In this part of the session we will review how we might understand the 21st century Museum within a continuum of earlier frameworks and consider the idea of " the critical museum" as a 21st century position.  

We will then consider the tradition and contemporary manifestations of the Design Museum as specific type of museum institution that carries forward the collection of "Applied Arts"  practices.  We will consider how these opportunities for display specifically focus on the narratives, experiences, and identities associated with objects and everyday life.

Readings ( see below )

Contemporary Museum Design and Architecture, Introduction ( Lindsay 2016)

The Critical Museum Introduction ( Murawska- Muthesius and Piotrowski )

YouTube links in Lecture

Other resources

JN's  Architecture/Museum _  intended for Week 3 ( see below )

JN's  Review,  and Design Museums  Week 5

Self directed Study:

Self-directed Study:1.      Using the past exhibitions from Te Papa ( on the Te Papa website and link in the talk uploaded below )  identify an exhibition that has displayed a collection that reflects the identities of a specific social/ cultural group, medium, or social issue. Identify the key drivers behind the collection, curation and exhibition strategies.* Te papa exhibition that has been chosen, that reflects the identities of a specific cultural group: Goldie Lindauer-Famous New Zealand painter, has captured numerous paintings of native Maori people of different ages. During the early days of the colonial period. He captures the identities of this ethnic group of this time, very clearly. Maori people are displayed in his exhibition at tepapa smoking pipes and wearing traditional cultural cloaks.

*Identified key drivers. Identified exhibition strategies. 

Curator has arranged paintings next to each other. In a particular arrangement. Showing each different painting next to the other. Some in more detailed frames than others. This arrangement suggests a narrative that the curator is trying to suggest, relating to the paintings.

2. Select an example of a design focused museum (for example, The Dowse, The Design Museum in London, Cooper Hewitt/ Smithsonian New York, The Danish Design Museum in Copenhagen, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London -- or any other of your choice.Identify an exhibition staging a collection, in your area of practice. *Design focused museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, New York *Exhibition staging a collection in my area of practice: Sanford Robinson Gifford series of works. Displayed in the gallery.

 Identify key drivers behind the collection, curation and exhibition strategies. *Identified key drivers behind the collection, curation and exhibition strategies: Nature theme, all paintings. Curator has intentionally displayed this artist works within an organised lounge like structure. This gives the impression of a narrative, intended by the curator. As he has intentionally used specific artefacts. All displayed are not paintings.https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metcollects/wigmore Personal collections:

Lee Jensen's Perfume Collection presented by Lee Jensen

Tanya Marriot's My Little Pony collection

Here is Tanya's lecture - the notes are in each slide. Feel free to share it in stream

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15g9vwVNEbv6yT-3I5G58x33H_vzUQUfA4lPrBEMzPSI/edit?usp=sharing

This is my collection

https://ponygeddon.wordpress.com/

Any my PHD toy work

http://tanyamarriott.co.nz/portfolio/wild-play-an-eco-fiction-toy-design/

And the books Tanya mentioned about the toy industry are as follows. (Less about collecting, more about consumption. Toy Monster is a particularly horrific read!)

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(via MetCollects—Episode 7 / 2017: “The Four Seasons” Guitars)

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Miyako Ishiuchi - Mother

“In an attempt to cope with 'a grief surpassing imagination,' Ishiuchi began to photograph her mother's possessions."

Miyako Ishiuchi is a photographer who documents her relationship with her Mother. Ishiuchi didn’t have a strong relationship with her mother but her project titled ‘25th March 1916’ explores her reconciliation with her. In 2000’s Ishichi documented her mother’s aging through her hair thinning, burns from cooking, close ups of her skin and just overall photographs of her. When this work was exhibited the mother was diagnosed with cancer and passed away within a few months. After she passed away Ishichui was left with no parents but all of her mother pocessions which she didn’t know what to do with. However due to her "a grief surpassing imagination," she began to photograph these objects to try and cope with her grief. The objects were all very personal and intimate with complex histories ranging from a used lipstick and a hairbrush with her hair still tangled among the bristles to her lingerie and dentures. The collection consists of forty photographs varying in different sizes with both black&white and coloured images to represent a child’s inerasable memories of their mother. Throughout the photographs, Ishichui records a sense of loss whilst exploring a posthumous relationship with her mother.

Ishichui’s work is also an exploration of time with her photographs connecting the past and present as well as capturing time passing, both physically and psychologically. Due to this exploration she interestingly combines documentation of her mother before the reconciliation, during it then after she has passed away allowing the audience to be taken on a story with Ishichui experiencing her mother the way she would have done.

Personally , I relate strongly to this collection of work due to losing my mother at a young age. I think Ishiuchis exploration of time and the posthumous conversation between mother and daughter is beautiful. It allows Ishiuchi to go through grief on a personal level but also affects her audience when they view the images.  I like the way she has photographed the intimate objects singularly on plain backgrounds as it puts emphasis on the importance and significance of them. Also it creates a contrast with the photographs having simple background and being shot simply yet the objects are complex with deep narratives. I found the objects she chose to focus on allows the viewer to begin to understand what kind of woman her mother was therefore allowing us to go through some of the grief that she had done. 

  Moving Forward….

In my work, similar to Ishichu ,I want to explore a post humorous relationship with my mother and explore the connection between a mother and daughter whether that is alive, passing on ten years later. I have found her documentary style of photographing the objects to be an inspirational way of exploring who my mum was and to be able to get to know her better. 

Links:

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/metcollects/ishiuchi-miyako

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2006/10/05/arts/a-daughters-conversation/#.Xclli5L7ST8

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