the art of collecting lightbulbs

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Dr. Hugh Francis Hicks at The Old Museum of Incandescent Lighting

Lisa Congdon, from A Collection a Day

Lisa Congdon, from A Collection a Day

Lisa Congdon, from A Collection a Day

Barry McGee, Spray Cans at the ICA Boston

Barry McGee, Retrospective at Berkley Museum of Art

Paul Elliman, Found Font Dead Scissors

Paul Elliman, ”Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language”

The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

James Turrell, Skyspace, various locations

Conjoined Twins, Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Mutter Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Théodore Géricault, Anatomical Pieces, 1818

Kiki Smith, Nuit

Kiki Smith, Untitled, 1990

Kiki Smith, Ribs, 1987

Damien Hirst, Nothing is a Problem for Me, 1992

Damien Hirst, Away from the Flock, 1994

Mark Dion and William Schefferine, Tropical Rain Forest Preserves, 1989 remade 2003

Mark Dion, Scala Naturae, 1994

Mark Dion, Oceanmania, 2005

The notion of Kunst- und Wunderkammern or "Wondercabinets" may seem a bit antiquated today, but they gave their owners an opportunity to gather together all kinds of things that brought elements of beauty and surprise to their lives. Imagine a modern day Wunderkammern of your own design. What kinds of things might you select of your own?

Read:• Chapter 5, “The Art of Collecting Lightbulbs”

Respond in your Journal:1. Reflect (in at least ONE PAGE) on chapter 5, a

quote or one of the videos shown in class.2. In your journal, discuss a collection you have.

Include a photograph or drawing of your collection. What compels you to collect these things?

3. In the next week, create a collection of things from your daily life? You should bring at least 20 things to next week’s class.• What compelled you to collect these things?• What is the ordering principle behind this

collection?