03770cam a22004094i 4500 106285 106285 BJBSDDR 20230411085718.0 ta 150528s2016 dcua b 001 0 eng 9781935623168 (pbk) 18635698 DLC spa DLC eng pcc GN 406 E57 2016 069 23 Engaging Smithsonian objects through science, history, and the arts / edited by Mary Jo Arnoldi. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2016 v, 310 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm. Smithsonian contribution to knowledge "A Smithsonian contribution to knowledge." Includes bibliographical references and index. Material Matters : Ways of Knowing Museum Objects / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- James Smithson's Crypt : Smithson's Crypt and the Search for a Proper Memorial / Richard E. Stamm -- James Smithson's Remains : A Biological Perspective / David R. Hunt -- Thomas Wilfred's Opus 152, "Study in Depth" : An Artist's Experiment with Lighting Viewed by a Historian of Technology / Bernard Finn -- Silent Visual Music : Thomas Wilfred's Opus 152, "Study in Depth" / Judith Zilczer -- A Not So "Gentle" History : Violent Explosions at Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii / Richard S. Fiske -- Objectifying Pele as Performance, Material Culture, and Cultural Landscape / Adrienne L. Kaeppler -- How to Identify a Stradivarius Stringed Instrument / Gary Sturm and Bruno Frohlich -- Violins from the Smithsonian Institution, the Library of Congress, and Private Collections : A Pilot Comparative Study / Bruno Frohlich and Gary Sturm -- The Huey 65-10126 Helicopter : Steed for the "Sky Calvary" / Roger Connor -- Huey 65-10126 : A Curator's Journey of Discovery / Peter Jakab -- A Central African Throwing Knife : A Throwing Knife through Production and Use / S. Terry Childs -- A Throwing Knife in Motion : The Journey from the Congo to the Smithsonian / Mary Jo Arnoldi -- The Iron Lung : The Iron Lung in History and Cultural Memory / Katherine Ott -- Whatever Happened to the Iron Lung? : Visitor Memories of an Iconic Medical Object / Matthew A. White -- Augustus Washington's Portrait of John Brown Augustus Washington : Daguerreotypist of John Brown / Ann Shumard -- In the Service of Abolitionism : Augustus Washington's Daguerreotype Portrait of John Brown / Frank H. Goodyear III -- The 'Sole' Survivors : The Smithsonian's Ruby Slippers / Dwight Blocker Bowers -- The Amazing Ruby Slippers and Their Magical Travels / Ellen Roney Hughes -- Collecting a National Tragedy : The National Museum of American History and September 11 / James B. Gardner -- A Moment in Time : September 11, 2001: Relevance of the Smithsonian Human Skeleton Collections / Marilyn R. London. How do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own--outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history?Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them. --Publisher. Smithsonian Institution Exhibitions. Instituto Smithsonian Exposiciones Smithsonian Material Culture Forum. Material culture. Cultura material 9343 Museum exhibits Social aspects. Exposiciones de arte 9341 Exposiciones Aspectos sociales 9342 Arnoldi, Mary Jo 9339 editora 9338 Smithsonian contribution to knowledge lcc BK dpf 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-11 0 GN 406 E57 2016 00000121316 2019-02-17 00:00:00 1 2019-02-17 BK