Preface Hanna Hölling List of Figures Contributors Introduction: Material Encounters Hanna B. Hölling, Francesca G. Bewer, and Katharina Ammann Part 1: Time and Change in Material and Object Inquiries 1 A Sea-Change Rich and Strange David Lowenthal 2 The Present, the Past, and the Material Object Paul Eggert 3 Engaging with Materials Telling the Whole Story Elizabeth Pye Part 2: Explicating the Performative: Material, Medium, Object 4 The 'Extended Life' of Performance Curating 1960s Multimedia Art in the Contemporary Museum Judit Bodor 5 Framing Intention Presentation as Preservation Strategy in Video Art Katharina Ammann 6 Out of the Box Preservation on Display Anna Schäffler 7 The Louvre on Celluloid Curating, Disseminating, and Preserving the Louvre's Collections in Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries Birgit Cleppe Part 3: The Making and Unmaking of Objects and Myths 8 The Material Forms of the Past and the 'Afterlives' of the Compositiones variae Recovering, Conserving, and Exhibiting the Personal History of an Early Medieval Manuscript Thea Burns 9 Would You Like That With or Without Mayo? How Interdisciplinary Collaboration Slows the Spread of Popular Misconceptions in Modern Art Scholarship Dawn V. Rogala Part 4: Transitions 10 Materials, Objects, Transitions Jorge Otero-Pailos in Conversation with Hanna Hölling Index.