Kim Sloan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3977290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kim Sloan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kim |
| FAMILY NAME | Sloan |
| SIGNATURE | SLOAN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | British Museum |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Enlightenment architectures
Focusing on Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogue of ‘Miscellanies’, now in the British Museum, this paper asks firstly how Sloane described objects and secondly whether the original contents of the cabinets can be reconstructed from his catalogue. Drawing on a sustained, digitally augmented analysis – the first of its kind – of Sloane’s catalogues, we respond to these questions and offer an initial analysis of the contents of the cabinets that held the mi…
Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution
Catalogues are the core documents of museum structure and meaning. Yet no significant computational analysis has been made of how catalogues from the early modern period are constructed or of the way their structure and content relate to the world from which collections are assembled. The Leverhulme-funded ‘Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections’ (2016–19), a collaboration between the British Museum and Unive…
The Duchess’s Shells. Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook’s Voyages
The frontispiece to the 1786 posthumous sale of the Duchess of Portland’s collection – with its fabulous cornucopia of vases, cameos, engravings, books, plants, butterflies, corals and shells pouring from overflowing cabinets – is well known to historians of collecting. The words ‘Portland Museum’ drawing back the curtain hold the tantalizing promise of an enormous and exemplary collection – but it is a collection that has until now eluded detail…
Burning Bright
This book celebrates the work and career of the internationally renowned art historian, David Bindman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and is above all a tribute to him from his former students and colleagues. With essays on sculpture, drawings, watercolours and prints, the volume reflects the extraordinary range of Bindman’s knowledge of works of art and his impact through his teaching and research on the understanding of British and Europ…
Cozens, Alexander
Cozens, John Robert
Cozens family
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Cozens, Alexander
Cozens, John Robert
Cozens family
Burning Bright
This book celebrates the work and career of the internationally renowned art historian, David Bindman, on the occasion of his 75th birthday, and is above all a tribute to him from his former students and colleagues. With essays on sculpture, drawings, watercolours and prints, the volume reflects the extraordinary range of Bindman’s knowledge of works of art and his impact through his teaching and research on the understanding of British and Europ…
The Duchess’s Shells. Natural History Collecting in the Age of Cook’s Voyages
The frontispiece to the 1786 posthumous sale of the Duchess of Portland’s collection – with its fabulous cornucopia of vases, cameos, engravings, books, plants, butterflies, corals and shells pouring from overflowing cabinets – is well known to historians of collecting. The words ‘Portland Museum’ drawing back the curtain hold the tantalizing promise of an enormous and exemplary collection – but it is a collection that has until now eluded detail…
Digital Humanities in the Memory Institution
Catalogues are the core documents of museum structure and meaning. Yet no significant computational analysis has been made of how catalogues from the early modern period are constructed or of the way their structure and content relate to the world from which collections are assembled. The Leverhulme-funded ‘Enlightenment Architectures: Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogues of his collections’ (2016–19), a collaboration between the British Museum and Unive…
Enlightenment architectures
Focusing on Sir Hans Sloane’s catalogue of ‘Miscellanies’, now in the British Museum, this paper asks firstly how Sloane described objects and secondly whether the original contents of the cabinets can be reconstructed from his catalogue. Drawing on a sustained, digitally augmented analysis – the first of its kind – of Sloane’s catalogues, we respond to these questions and offer an initial analysis of the contents of the cabinets that held the mi…
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