http://www.metafilter.com/tags/materialarts Posts tagged with 'materialarts' at MetaFilter. Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:36:23 -0800 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:36:23 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/73518/Fowler%2DMuseum%2Dof%2DCultural%2DHistory <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/">The UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History</a> has an extensive, <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=advform">searchable</a> online collection. It focuse on material art and household items and has objects from all over the world. The website can be browsed either by geographic orgin: <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=hiersearch;id=23000;type=801">Africa</a>, <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=hiersearch;id=22000;type=801">Asia</a>, <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=hiersearch;id=25000;type=801">North and Central America</a>, <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=hiersearch;id=21000;type=801">Pacific</a>, <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=hiersearch;id=24000;type=801">South America</a>, or through its two exhibits, <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=exhibit;id=1">Intersections: World Arts, Local Lives</a> and <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=exhibit;id=2">Fowler in Focus</a>. Some of my favorite objects (but really, everything is entrancing) are <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/MWEBimages/X77.1391.jpg">The Blind Scholar</a> (<a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=X77.1391A;type=101">a Taiwanese handpuppet</a>), <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/MWEBimages/X2002.33.14.jpg">Chikunga</a> (<a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=erecord;hilite=1385;id=X2002.33.14;type=101">a Zambian mask</a>) and a <a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/MWEBimages/X88.812.jpg">stirrup spout bottle which looks like a puma eating a piglet</a> (<a href="http://collections.fowler.ucla.edu/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record;id=X88.812;type=101">Peruvian</a>). All items have accompanying descriptions and some have short texts or audioguides with further information. tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.73518 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:36:23 -0800 anthropology art culturalhistory design folkart Fowler materialarts materialhistory museum UCLA Kattullus