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Ethics of the dust: on the care of a university art collection
Includes bibliography.
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Michaelis School of Fine Art
2015
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| author | Brown, Jessica Natasha |
| author2 | Skotnes, Pippa |
| author_browse | Brown, Jessica Natasha Skotnes, Pippa |
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| description | Includes bibliography. |
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| institution | University of Cape Town (South Africa) |
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| publishDate | 2015 |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13651 Ethics of the dust: on the care of a university art collection Brown, Jessica Natasha Skotnes, Pippa Hamilton, Carolyn Fine Art Includes bibliography. This thesis examines the University of Cape Town (UCT) Permanent Works of Art Collection in order to determine its relevance to, and status within, the university. The text traces the historical and current roles of the university art collection in general, before focusing specifically on the UCT art collection’s history, including the contexts, events and personalities which shaped its development, from its embryonic beginnings in 1911, to the present. In an era which demands clear correlations between the allocation of resources and relevance to institutional goals, the contemporary university collection is under pressure to demonstrate its potential as a useful educational and interpretive tool within the university (the so-called ‘triple mission’ of collections: teaching, research and public display), or risk being consigned to obsolescence, even destruction. Based on a survey of the UCT art collection’s holdings, interviews, and a combination of bibliographic and archival research, undertaken between 2011and 2014, the thesis establishes that, whereas most university collections were traditionally constituted for the purpose of teaching and research, or for the preservation and exhibition of historical artefacts pertaining to a university and/or a specific discipline, this collection does not precisely fulfill either function. 2015-08-07T11:00:26Z 2015-08-07T11:00:26Z 2015 Master Thesis Masters MFA http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13651 eng application/pdf Michaelis School of Fine Art Faculty of Humanities University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Fine Art Brown, Jessica Natasha Ethics of the dust: on the care of a university art collection |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Ethics of the dust: on the care of a university art collection |
| title_full | Ethics of the dust: on the care of a university art collection |
| title_fullStr | Ethics of the dust: on the care of a university art collection |
| title_full_unstemmed | Ethics of the dust: on the care of a university art collection |
| title_short | Ethics of the dust: on the care of a university art collection |
| title_sort | ethics of the dust on the care of a university art collection |
| topic | Fine Art |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13651 |
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