01068nam a2200253 i 450099100269361970753620020508204438.0000306s1998 it ||| | ita b11046685-39ule_instPARLA167317ExLDipart. Scienze pedagogicheita065Istituto Nazionale dell'Informazione9332Documenti Italia 1998/99 :annuario degli enti di studio, cultura, ricerca scientifica e tecnologica /Istituto Nazionale dell'Informazione, INI ; VII edizione, 1998/99Roma :Editoriale Italiana,19981165 p. ;25 cm.Accademie e istituti culturaliItaliaAnnuariIstituti e centri scientificiItaliaAnnuari.b1104668521-09-0628-06-02991002693619707536LE022 065 INI01.0112022000013277le022-E0.00-l- 00000.i1117092x28-06-02Documenti Italia 1998858874UNISALENTOle02201-01-00ma -itait 0104761nam 22004935 450 991091982240332120241226115305.09789819790807(electronic bk.)978981979079110.1007/978-981-97-9080-7(MiAaPQ)EBC31861918(Au-PeEL)EBL31861918(CKB)37082595700041(DE-He213)978-981-97-9080-7(EXLCZ)993708259570004120241226d2024 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFrom Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting since the 1600s /by Charles Merewether1st ed. 2024.Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2024.1 online resource (294 pages)Print version: Merewether, Charles From Fascination to Folly: a Troubled History of Collecting since The 1600s Singapore : Palgrave Macmillan,c2025 9789819790791 Part 1: Chapter 1: Collectors and Cabinets of Curiosities -- Chapter 2: English exploration, trade and collecting -- Chapter 3: Section.1: The Dutch reimagining the world -- Section.2: Dutch Golden Age -- Chapter 4: English Collecting and museums -- Part 2:Chapter 5: Conquest and Booty: Napoleon and the French -- Chapter 6: All Dreaming of Egypt: The French, Italian and British -- Chapter 7: Diamonds forever: India and England -- Chapter 8: The Return of China -- Conclusion.This book explores the interplay of Western European exploration and trade, with collecting, cabinets of curiosities and museums, and with the role of booty and plunder in the building of empires from ca.1600 until the end of the 19th century. The book focuses principally on the Dutch, English, Spanish, French and Italian at different times of their colonial power over the course of these 300 years. The achievements of exploration and trade provide the basis for these countries and both the state and individuals to build collections and museums. This involved governments to legitimize the pursuit of booty and subsequently looting whether by themselves, members of the ruling class or privateers. Throughout much of this period, there those who stood up and challenged such practices, passing laws to criminalize, curtail or contain these activities. By the late 18th century, these parallel but disparate activities converged. It was era of Napoleon and his imperial ambitions that drew these disparate activities together, with his support of intellectual inquiry alongside military plunder and collecting. This served as a symbol of imperial power of the French empire that, alongside England and Italy, exploited the wealth and riches of Egypt, India, and China. Charles Merewether, born in Edinburgh, received his BA (literature) and PhD in art history at the University of Sydney. He taught European modernism at the Universities of Sydney (1981-84), Universidad Iberoeramericana, Mexico City (1986-88), and Universidad Autonoma in Barcelona. He received a research fellowship from Yale University (1991), was Inaugural Curator for the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico, (1991-1994), Curator at the Research Institute, Getty Center, Los Angeles (1994-2003) and taught at the University of Southern California. He was Artistic Director of the Sydney Biennale (2004-2006), Deputy Director of the Cultural District, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi (2007), Director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore, (2010-2013), Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2014) and Baptist University, Hong Kong (2015). He was Curator of Contemporary Art, National Art Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia (2016-2019). His books include: In the Sphere of the Soviets (2021), State of Play: Art in Georgia 1985-2000 (2017), After Memory: The Art of Milenko Prvacki (2013) and Under Construction: Ai Weiwei (2008), He was co-editor of After the Event (2010), editor of both Art, Anti-Art, Non-Art: Experimentations in the Public Sphere in Postwar Japan 1950-1970, (2007) and The Archive (2006).EuropeHistoryImperialismEuropean HistoryImperialism and ColonialismEuropeHistory.Imperialism.European History.Imperialism and Colonialism.069.4Merewether Charles1229710MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910919822403321From Fascination to Folly: A Troubled History of Collecting since the 1600s4327328UNINA