Object Lessons : How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World

作者：SarahAnneCarter

出版社：OxfordUniversityPressNewYork

副标题：HowNineteenth-CenturyAmericansLearnedtoMakeSenseoftheMaterialWorld

出版年：2018-9-6

页数：216

ISBN：9780190225032

内容简介
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Object Lessons: How Nineteenth-Century Americans Learned to Make Sense of the Material World examines the ways material things-objects and pictures-were used to reason about issues of morality, race, citizenship, and capitalism, as well as reality and representation, in the nineteenth-century United States. For modern scholars, an "object lesson" is simply a timeworn metaphor used to describe any sort of reasoning from concrete to abstract. But in the 1860s, object lessons were classroom exercises popular across the country. Object lessons helped children to learn about the world through their senses-touching and seeing rather than memorizing and repeating-leading to new modes of classifying and comprehending material evidence drawn from the close study of objects, pictures, and even people. In this book, Sarah Carter argues that object lessons taught Americans how to find and comprehend the information in things-from a type-metal fragment to a whalebone sample. Featuring over fifty images and a full-color insert, this book offers the object lesson as a new tool for contemporary scholars to interpret the meanings of nineteenth-century material, cultural, and intellectual life.

作者简介
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Sarah Anne Carte is the curator and director of research at the Chipstone Foundation in Milwaukee. She has published, lectured, and taught courses on material culture, museum practice, and American cultural history. At Chipstone, Carter has collaboratively curated several exhibitions, including Mrs. M.—'s Cabinet, and directs Chipstone's active museum Think Tank program.

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Acknowledgments

Prologue: A Box of Ideas

Introduction: Reason from Things

Chapter I: Windows and Ladders

Chapter II: Thinking with Things

Chapter III: Picture Lessons

Chapter IV: Object Lessons in Race and Citizenship

Chapter V: Objects and Ideas

Epilogue: Method over Matter in the Twenty-First Century Classroom

Bibliographical Essay: Object Lessons in the Archives

Selected Bibliography

Notes

Index

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对十九世纪object lessons作为教学法及其背后的rhetorics比较系统性的梳理，对分析东亚近代借鉴的一些教学和展示model非常实用。把二十世纪material studies作为object lessons的一个遗产这点很有意思，值得琢磨。作者似乎很希望跟艺术史和博物馆学扯上更多关系，可惜探讨不到，如果能跟博物馆的公民教育一起分析就好了，可能有点超出一本书的体量。其实教室中的mat…

对十九世纪object lessons作为教学法及其背后的rhetorics比较系统性的梳理，对分析东亚近代借鉴的一些教学和展示model非常实用。把二十世纪material studies作为object lessons的一个遗产这点很有意思，值得琢磨。作者似乎很希望跟艺术史和博物馆学扯上更多关系，可惜探讨不到，如果能跟博物馆的公民教育一起分析就好了，可能有点超出一本书的体量。其实教室中的mat…

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