Fragments

Name: Fragments
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SKU: 9783775753074
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Fragments explores the collections of the Museum der Kulturen Basel, focusing on numerous fragments that illustrate historical and contemporary practices of sharing and connecting. The book reveals how fragments, whether remnants of destruction or parts of once-powerful objects, have been handled over time. It examines themes of dividing, repairing, and reassembling, highlighting how these acts serve to (re)store or create new orders. The authors challenge the notion of fragments as mere signs of loss, instead presenting them as symbols of connection, separation, and destruction.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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This publication is suited for readers interested in museum collections, cultural history, and the philosophy of artefacts. It appeals to those engaged with heritage studies and the art of preservation.

Description

The collections of the Museum der Kulturen Basel contain numerous fragments that bear witness to practices of sharing and connecting. They include fragments from history, remnants of destruction, and once powerful objects made up of single parts. The publication shows how these things were handled in the past, and still are today. It sheds light on what it means to divide, repair, reassemble, even to let something fall apart.

Whichever way they are handled, it is always a matter of (re)storing or creating a new order. Instead of seeing fragments exclusively as signs of loss or as witnesses to the inexorable passage of time, the authors focus on the power of connecting, the art of separating, and the force of destruction in the pieces presented.

This insightful analysis is the essence of Fragments as it explores these dynamic processes.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783775753074

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 May 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hatje Cantz

Illustration: 120 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Anna Schmid
Text by Elísio Macamo
Text by Silvia Greber
Text by Stephanie Lovász
Text by Tabea Buri
Text by Alexander Brust
Text by Richard Kunz
Text by Aila Özvegyi
Text by Ursula Regehr

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 305.0mm

Weight: 800g

Pages: 208

Collections

Arts & Culture Education & Reference Non-Fiction Science & Nature

About the Author

The MUSEUM DER KULTUREN BASEL (MKB) is the largest anthropological museum in Switzerland and one of the most eminent of its kind in Europe. The MKB collections are renowned throughout the world and include over 340,000 objects, around 50,000 historical photographs, and roughly 200,000 documentary images.