The museum of the mind
- ISBN: 9780714126371
- Editorial: The British Museum
- Fecha de la edición: 2003
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Colección: Art and Memory in World Cultures
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 24 cm
- Nº Pág.: 160
- Idiomas: Inglés
This thought-provoking book draws together some of The British Museum's most important objects from around the world, in the context of its 250th anniversary. It addresses questions such as how, when and why people or events are commemorated, at the same time examining how The British Museum itself is celebrated and remembered. Fundamental questions are addressed concerning the linkage between the creation of objects and the creation of memory as an aspect of human culture in general. Ultimately, memory is tied up with the complex question of identity, personal identity and social or cultural identity. As the surrealist film-maker Luis Bunuel wrote: 'You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all.'
