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Communicative Stuff: November 2012
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Friday, November 30, 2012. Ideally, the exhibit visitors will discover the amount of information appropriate to their interests and, even more ideally (it's probably a hoop dream, actually) talk with other guests about what they've seen and read. This way, guests can communicate their subjective impressions with one another. This exchange of ideas could promote a phenomenological exchange with the exhibit and its visitors. Posted by Brian McFadden. Sunday, November 25, 2012. Posted by Brian McFadden.
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Communicative Stuff: Sensing the Gaze: Conforming to an All-Seeing Society
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Sunday, November 25, 2012. Sensing the Gaze: Conforming to an All-Seeing Society. This weeks reading brought about a couple of reactions centering on sensory experience. The first reaction, sight, has to do with my object: the 18th century wasitcoat. The second shifts toward another sense, touch, and how we can (or can't) make use of this when thinking about our exhibit. To begin, while reading Mark M. Smith. S Sensing the Past: Seeing, Hearing, Smelling, Tasting, and Touching in History. Owls all the way.
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Communicative Stuff: Capt. William Brown Breakthrough: Visiting the Old Pine Churchyard
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Monday, October 29, 2012. Capt William Brown Breakthrough: Visiting the Old Pine Churchyard. During our last class meeting, everyone had an opportunity to present a blurb of information about their objects to Claire Sauro. The Pennsylvania General Advertiser outs Capt. Brown as a tardy letter collector. Located near Philadelphia's Society Hill. According to a few web sources. Upon arriving at the Old Pine Church Yard, I entered the empty grounds and began weaving in and out of the rows of colonial headst...
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Communicative Stuff: Final Reflection
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Monday, December 17, 2012. When I created my object methodology a number of weeks ago, I knew that, eventually, I would need to re-tweak my already tweaked Prownian approach. In conducting this final exercise, I found the manipulation to be helpful in further understanding about the waistcoat. I remember laughing to myself the first time I the line “Does [the object] sing to me? 8221; To me, it boiled down to agency: can an object have agency, let alone sing, without its owner? Posted by Brian McFadden.
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Communicative Stuff: Fashion and Structure: Is there 'power' in the waistcoat?
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Sunday, October 14, 2012. Fashion and Structure: Is there 'power' in the waistcoat? In Fashioning the Bourgeoisie. Kirsh-Gimblett links dramaturgy and exhibitions. Although Kirsh-Gimblett focuses more on displaying findings in a museum, one notes the link between museum exhibit performance and societal performance as the participants in each attempt to act. In a desired way. For the purposes of Perrot's discussion, this performance is, at times, a struggle for those lacking in means. Forced me to think b...
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Communicative Stuff: Dramaturgic Denim: Jeans and Narrative Identity
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Saturday, November 10, 2012. Dramaturgic Denim: Jeans and Narrative Identity. I found the first half of Miller. 8217;s Blue Jeans: The Art of the Ordinary. Katie Holmes in (maybe? Posted by Brian McFadden. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). American Material Culture Blogs. Jersey Shore Public History: Readings and Projects. Welcome To The NEW Jersey Shore Public History Blog. Owls all the way. Megan Kita: Studies in American Material Culture. American Material Culture (HIS 8151). Of Textiles and Tetrads.
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Communicative Stuff: September 2012
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Sunday, September 30, 2012. Using Landscape, Walls, and Niddy Noddies in a Repressive Culture. For this week, Upton and Weyeneth examine two different period of architectural segregation spanning from the 18. Century to the mid-20. Century, respectively. Thus, these readings appear closely related in content. My assigned chapter, “Willie-Nillie, Niddy-Noddy” in Ulrich’s The Age of Homespun. Deals with a vastly different topic: spinning in late-18. Posted by Brian McFadden. Sunday, September 23, 2012.
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mə-tir-ē-əl: September 2010
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Explorations in American Material Culture. Tuesday, September 28, 2010. First Person Museum Exhibit Design. Design the First Person Museum? Read Alice Parman's "Exhibit Makeovers: Do-It-Yourself Exhibit Planning" and describe your plan according to her six steps. Be sure to include a blueprint. Step #1: Mission Statement, Take-Home Messages, and Storyline. Adapted from the First Person Arts. People like me play an essential role in museums like this. Step #2: "Galleries of Thought". Steps #4 and #5: Moti...
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Thoughts of an Uppity Grad: Yari's Baby Clothes: Captions
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Thoughts of an Uppity Grad. Monday, October 11, 2010. Yari's Baby Clothes: Captions. The opening of the new First Person Arts exhibit is quickly approaching! My classmates and I are working on writing individual captions for each object. You can find links to their work here. Caption #1: About Style. Caption #2: About Movement. The practice of swaddling babies led to the development of bodices in the 18th century. Bodices physically restrained infants and were believed to strengthen their backs. ...In 19...
