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Looking at, describing and identifying objects

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This free course, Looking at, describing and identifying objects, will enable you to practise and develop your skills of observation and description of objects. It will also enable you to interpret objects and work towards writing your own object life cycle. You will also work with, and understand artefact databases.

Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Learning outcomes
  • 1 Meeting an object
  • 1 Meeting an object
  • 2 Observation, interpretation and communication
  • 2 Observation, interpretation and communication
  • 3 Life cycle: production and consumption
  • 3 Life cycle: production and consumption
  • Production
  • Consumption
  • 4 Identification
  • 4 Identification
  • Ask an expert
  • 5 Life cycle: consumption
  • 5 Life cycle: consumption
  • Consumption: the end
  • 6 Life cycle: afterlife
  • 6 Life cycle: afterlife
  • Transition from ‘consumption’ to ‘afterlife’
  • Afterlife: ‘museumisation’
  • 7 Writing an object biography
  • 7 Writing an object biography
  • Towards an object biography
  • Building an object biography
  • Does the netsuke have a meaning?
  • Conclusion
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Further reading
  • Acknowledgements

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