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C ONTENTS

SERIES EDITOR’S FOREWORD ix

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi

ILLUSTRATIONS xiii

INTRODUCTION 1

1 || OBJECT 5
The life of things in the museum age 5
The democratization of treasure 12
Curious things 18
From the marketplace to the museum 27
Further reading 36

2 || DISPLAY 37
The overcrowded cemetery 37
Dioramas as popular education 44
Attention and mimesis 53
The art of exhibition 60
Further reading 69

3 || MEDIA 70
Materialist media theory 70