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100 1 $aBann, Stephen.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50022092
245 10 $aUnder the sign :$bJohn Bargrave as collector, traveler, and witness /$cby Stephen Bann.
260 $aAnn Arbor :$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$c[1994], ©1994.
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300 $axiv, 152 pages, 30 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c24 cm.
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490 1 $aThe Body, in theory : histories of cultural materialism
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $aUnder the Sign: John Bargrave as Collector, Traveler, and Witness is a cultural history that combines some of the most vital questions in the history of art, the history of science, intellectual history, and the new discipline of museology.
520 8 $aThe "Cabinet of Curiosities," an early modern phenomenon some historians view as the forerunner of the modern museum, has evinced considerable interest in recent years. Increasing attention has also been paid to the history of travel and its documentation. The collector John Bargrave (1610-80) holds a unique position at the intersection of these two areas of cultural practice, yet this is the first in-depth study of his life, and it is the first to assess his significance for contemporary cultural studies.
520 8 $aStephen Bann seeks not only to investigate the life and philosophy of an individual collector but to elaborate a genealogy of collecting that sheds new insights on the practice in its variable historical forms.
520 8 $aJohn Bargrave's collection of "curiosities" remains nearly intact at Canterbury Cathedral, where it was recently rescued from virtual oblivion. His role as a traveler and his part in writing the first English guidebook to Italy have also come to light only in the last decade. Bann offers an investigation of Bargrave's family background, his social position in the period preceding the English Civil War, and his roles as traveler and collector during and after the war.
520 8 $aBargrave left a unique catalog detailing the circumstances of acquiring many of the objects, which Bann analyzes in order to reconstruct the methods and motives of collecting and establishing a permanent display. He argues that collecting can be seen as a form of authorship, an effort always rooted in a particular time and place (and the early modern period is crucial in this cultural shift) to make sense of objects symbolically.
600 10 $aBargrave, John,$d1610-1680.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr90005609
610 20 $aChurch of England$xClergy$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009119704
650 0 $aCollectors and collecting$zEngland$zCanterbury$vBiography.
650 0 $aAnglican Communion$zEngland$xClergy$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009114938
650 0 $aAntiquities$xPrivate collections$zEngland$zCanterbury.
830 0 $aBody, in theory.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93088770
852 00 $bglx$hAM401.B37$iB36 1994