Mythologies / Haunch of Venison.
- Date:
- 2009
- Books
About this work
Description
"The exhibition takes as its starting point the previous role of 6 Burlington Gardens as the Museum of Mankind. Between 1970 and 1997, the building housed the British Museum's vast ethnographic collections and staged a series of important exhibitions on subjects from the Mexican Day of the Dead to Japanese kites, from Thomas Stanford Raffles to Indonesian shadow plays."--Page 8 and 11.
Publication/Creation
London : Haunch of Venison, 2009.
Physical description
239 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm
Notes
"Published ... on the occasion of the exhibition 'Mythologies' at Haunch of Venison, London, 12 March-25 April 2009"--Preliminary page.
Contents
Cobwebs & curiosities, serpents & skulls / Ben Tufnell -- The museum of mythologies / James Putnam -- Miscellanies: a compendium of artists, curiosities, oddities, natural wonders, philosophies, theories, propositions & other diverse & unusual subjects -- Appendices.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references.
Languages
Subjects
- Art, Modern21st centuryExhibitions
- Art and mythologyExhibitions
- EthnologyExhibitions
- AnthropologyExhibitions
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Amorales, Carlos, 1970-
- Banerjee, Rina, 1963-
- Calle, Sophie, 1953-
- Coley, Nathan, 1967-
- Collishaw, Mat, 1966-
- Cragg, Tony, 1949-
- Kallat, Jitish, 1974-
- Shahbazi, Shirana, 1974-
- Shovlin, Jamie, 1978-
- Viola, Bill, 1951-
- Haunch of Venison (Gallery)
- Museum of Mankind
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineZEQ.ASOpen shelves
Permanent link
Identifiers
ISBN
- 9781905620357
- 1905620357