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dc.contributor.advisorFripp, Jessica L.en_US
dc.creatorRomano, Marc Lalonde
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-11T13:57:52Z
dc.date.available2023-05-11T13:57:52Z
dc.date.issued2023-05-08
dc.identifieraleph-7210678
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/58331
dc.description.abstractThe cabinet of curiosities of Claude Du Molinet (1620-1687), housed at the Bibliothèque Sainte Geneviève in Paris, provides a salient example of a cabinet of curiosities, because of its past of being assembled, dissembled, and reassembled. This thesis provides a historical synthesis of Du Molinet’s cabinet by providing descriptions of it during these phases. A critical analysis of the cabinet is also provided, focusing on two arguments. It is maintained that Du Molinet’s cabinet is defined by this precarious existence of assembling, disassembling, and reassembling, because collectors did not understand many of the cabinet’s ethnographic objects. It is argued moreover that these objects remained in a no-man’s land of the cabinet. They were neither there (the exotic lands) nor here (Europe). They had no identity, except for sauvageries. This makeup of the cabinet makes for a most curious cabinet that might help us to contemplate differently the definition of museums today.en_US
dc.format.mediumFormat: Onlineen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectArt historyen_US
dc.subjectCabinets of curiositiesen_US
dc.subjectClaude Du Molineten_US
dc.subjectCollectorsen_US
dc.titleThe evolution of the cabinet of curiosities of Claude Du Molineten_US
dc.typeTexten_US
etd.degree.levelMaster of Artsen_US
local.collegeCollege of Fine Artsen_US
local.departmentArten_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US


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