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Nature's Museums: Victorian Science and The Architecture of Display 1999 Yanni
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Acceptable
- Seller notes
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- ISBN
- 9780801863264
- Subject Area
- Architecture, History
- Publication Name
- Nature's Museums : Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Item Length
- 10 in
- Subject
- Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Europe / General, History / General
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.8 in
- Item Weight
- 27.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 7 in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN-10
0801863260
ISBN-13
9780801863264
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1591773
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Nature's Museums : Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display
Publication Year
2000
Subject
Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Europe / General, History / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Architecture, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
27.4 Oz
Item Length
10 in
Item Width
7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
99-034204
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Yanni's thorough, scholarly work focuses on a very specific slice of mid- to late-19th-century British history: the construction of buildings for the display of natural history collections. Yanni writes as much social history as architectural history, describing the evolving impact of Darwin's evolutionism as the field of natural history emerged as a distinct discipline."-- Choice, "Nature's Museums will convince the reader that however stolid and self-assured an old museum may seem, its past conceals a local story of vision, conflict, and compromise." -- Mary P. Winsor, Science, ''Yanni's thorough, scholarly work focuses on a very specific slice of mid- to late-19th-century British history: the construction of buildings for the display of natural history collections. Yanni writes as much social history as architectural history, describing the evolving impact of Darwin's evolutionism as the field of natural history emerged as a distinct discipline.'' -- Choice, "Yanni has enriched immensely our understanding of these buildings, and all architecture designed for display."--Annmarie Adams, CAA.Reviews, "Yanni's study, beautifully illustrated, is deeply concerned with the visual and with the material quality of things, and through detailed case studies of natural history museums provides a highly readable account of the relationship between science and architecture in Victorian England."--Tim Barringer, Victorian Studies
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
727/.6508
Synopsis
''Museums produced natural knowledge and were themselves architectural spectacles,'' writes Carla Yanni. ''As such, they comprise a rich cultural site suggestive of interdisciplinary historical study.'' In Nature's Museums, Yanni brings together the history of architecture and history of science in an engaging study of how the Victorians ......, "Museums produced natural knowledge and were themselves architectural spectacles," writes Carla Yanni. "As such, they comprise a rich cultural site suggestive of interdisciplinary historical study." In Nature's Museums, Yanni brings together the history of architecture and history of science in an engaging study of how the Victorians approached the housing and display of scientific artifacts. Focusing on the Oxford University Museum, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, and the Natural History Museum of London, Yanni explores how such institutions reflected varying, often contradictory concepts of nature -- from the handiwork of God to a resource to be exploited. She explains how the rise of museums accompanied and influenced the transformation of science from a "gentleman's hobby" to a paying profession. And she shows how the buildings themselves remain invaluable guides to the Victorians' ambiguous perception of the natural world. Through careful social and historical accounts of the buildings, their displays, and their reception, Yanni's work deepens our understanding of the emerging power of museums in Darwin's century. "Piled high with bones and stuffed animals, natural history museums were the primary places of interaction between natural science and its diverse publics. Studies of the natural world (what we now think of as biology and geology) were changing and conflicted disciplines, and thus no single vision of nature emerged in the Victorian period. Consequently, architects could not devise any one distinctive building type... Nature's Museums analyzes how the architecture of selected natural history museums in Britain contributed to the legitimization of knowledge." -- from Nature's Museums, ''Museums produced natural knowledge and were themselves architectural spectacles,'' writes Carla Yanni. ''As such, they comprise a rich cultural site suggestive of interdisciplinary historical study.'' In Nature's Museums, Yanni brings together the history of architecture and history of science in an engaging study of how the Victorians approached the housing and display of scientific artifacts. Focusing on the Oxford University Museum, the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art, and the Natural History Museum of London, Yanni explores how such institutions reflected varying, often contradictory concepts of nature-from the handiwork of God to a resource to be exploited. She explains how the rise of museums accompanied and influenced the transformation of science from a ''gentleman's hobby'' to a paying profession. And she shows how the buildings themselves remain invaluable guides to the Victorians' ambiguous perception of the natural world. Through careful social and historical accounts of the buildings, their displays, and their reception, Yanni's work deepens our understanding of the emerging power of museums in Darwin's century. ''Piled high with bones and stuffed animals, natural history museums were the primary places of interaction between natural science and its diverse publics. Studies of the natural world (what we now think of as biology and geology) were changing and conflicted disciplines, and thus no single vision of nature emerged in the Victorian period. Consequently, architects could not devise any one distinctive building type . . . Nature's Museums analyzes how the architecture of selected natural history museums in Britain contributed to the legitimization of knowledge.''-from Nature's Museums
LC Classification Number
QH70.A1Y25 1999
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