Altered states
Objects that accrue new meaning through alteration or adaptation
Zwart houten lijst bestemd voor…
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Kom uit V.O.C.-schip de 'Witte…
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A pottery shard recovered from a sunken ship with embellishments from its long life underwater.
Schotel van aardewerk versierd met…
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Verklikker
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This object contains wax which, when heated from below, liquifies and turns transparent to show an image otherwise obscured.
Te zien in zaal 1.10
Portretten van kroonprins Willem…
André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
What precisely has gone missing, and why?
Allegorie op de rede
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An allegory of reason is defaced with ink. A critique of reason? A joke? Is reason in need of correction for myopia, or sillier this way?
Allegorie op de rede
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Dobbelglas
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An assemblage of objects brought together to contain a die. A profane object turned sacred!
Te zien in zaal 2.12
Interieur van Stadhouderskade 56,…
Willem Jan Gerrit van Meurs
Two views of interior showing paintings and objects of Andries Bonger's art collection. Documentation? Demonstration? Note the differences!
Interieur van Stadhouderskade 56,…
Willem Jan Gerrit van Meurs
Kubische doorsnede van een…
William Graatsma
An otherwise conventional scene of industry transformed, supplanted, mocked in collage?
Collage van knipselkunst
Cornelis Schellinger
Several unrelated cut-outs assembled --in a scrapbook? They tell classic tales and, as assembled, create new ones.
Een set knopen op een kaart
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When is a button card not a button card? ...When it's an object indicates not only historical material culture but pattern and ornamentation
Schrijfvoorbeeld: Characteres…
Simon Frisius
Voorstudie voor 'De…
Carel Willink
Aan de slag met meesterwerken