127 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 37 cm + 14 cards (chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm) in box (38 x 31 x 6 cm)
Notes:
Issued in connection with an exhibition held Sept. 2010-Mar. 2011, Oakland Museum of California, curated by René de Guzman
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references
Contents:
Introduction / by Lori Fogarty -- Time machine / by René de Guzman -- The irritated cloud / Mark Dion in conversation with Lawrence Weschler -- Epistemology and little bits of paper / by D. Graham Burnett -- California is nothing but an orphanage / by Rebecca Solnit -- Excavated histories of the Oakland Museums / Marjorie Schwarzer and others -- Case studies / M. Rebekah Otto and others -- Appendix of ephemera : a selection of material culture from the museum's archives