The Smithsonian: America's Treasure House
ISBN: 9781590774724 / Angielski / Miękka / 370 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although the Smithsonian Institution has grown to be over a hundred years old, no full length account of its various collections and fascinating activities had ever been written before Mr. True put them down here in 1950. Founded through a generous bequest by a lonely Englishman who had never visited this country, The Smithsonian, often identified with its headquarters in the quaint Norman castle on the Mall in Washington D.C., also includes the United States National Museum now called the National Museum of Natural History with its collection of natural history and American historical...
Although the Smithsonian Institution has grown to be over a hundred years old, no full length account of its various collections and fascinating activ...
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10 Must Reads: Strategies - Making Change Happen
ISBN: 9781910144220 / Angielski / Miękka / 356 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In public-facing organisations like museums, with a wide variety of stakeholders, staff at all levels face frustrations. This bookis about getting things done: about successfully achieving change within an often complex framework. We've reviewed hundreds of MuseumsEtc case studies and selected the most important ones to help you successfully achieve change. Whether your priorities relate to your mission, your displays, sustainability, community engagement, marketing, new media or retailing, 10 Must Reads: Strategies - Making Change Happen is designed to act as a practical and inspirational...
In public-facing organisations like museums, with a wide variety of stakeholders, staff at all levels face frustrations. This bookis about getting thi...
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395,07 zł |
Museum Representations of Maoist China: From Cultural Revolution to Commie Kitsch
ISBN: 9781472416551 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People s Republic of China, and particularly the art of the Cultural Revolution, have been problematic for museums. These objects challenge our perception of Chineseness and their style, content and the means of their production question accepted notions of how we perceive art. This book links art history, museology and visual culture studies to examine how museums have attempted to reveal, discuss and resolve some of these issues. Amy Jane Barnes addresses a series of related issues associated with collection and display: how museums...
The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People s Republic of China, and particularly the art of the Cultural Revolution, have been ...
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654,86 zł |
Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches
ISBN: 9781409435631 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines contemporary approaches to restitution from the perspective of museums. It focuses on the ways in which these institutions have been addressing the subject at a regional, national and international level. In particular, it explores contemporary practices and recent claims, and investigates to what extent the question of restitution as an issue of ownership is still at large, or whether museums have found additional ways to conceptualise and practice restitution, by thinking beyond the issue of ownership. The challenges, benefits and drawbacks of recent and current museum...
This book examines contemporary approaches to restitution from the perspective of museums. It focuses on the ways in which these institutions have bee...
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680,04 zł |
Collecting the Contemporary: A Handbook for Social History Museums
ISBN: 9781910144282 / Angielski / Miękka / 628 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many history museums collect contemporary objects, stories, images and sounds. But reasoned collecting strategies and policies are often lacking. The sheer quantity of available material culture and the complexity of contemporary life leave many confused about how best to document and engage with the present. Collecting the Contemporaryaddresses one of the most fundamental issues facing today's history museums: why and how to engage with contemporary collecting? In a format which is approachable, attractive - and above all actionable, this handbook is packed with stimulating thinking and...
Many history museums collect contemporary objects, stories, images and sounds. But reasoned collecting strategies and policies are often lacking. The ...
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British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response: Reflections Across the Pond
ISBN: 9781472438065 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response - Reflections Across the Pond presents 14 essays by distinguished art - and cultural - historians. Collectively, they examine points of similarity and difference in the approaches to art collecting practiced in Britain and the United States. Unlike most of their Continental European counterparts, the English and Americans have historically been exceptionally open to collecting the art made by and for other cultures. At the same time, they developed a tradition of opening private collections to a public eager for educational and...
British Models of Art Collecting and the American Response - Reflections Across the Pond presents 14 essays by distinguished art - and cultural - hist...
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World Heritage in Iran: Perspectives on Pasargadae
ISBN: 9781409448440 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Through the ages it was Islamised and the tomb was ascribed to the Mother of Solomon. It was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that archaeological evidence demonstrated the relationship between the site and Cyrus and it was appropriated into conflicting political discourses on nationalism and Islamism while concurrently acknowledged as a national and then a World Heritages site. However, Pasargadae is neither an isolated World Heritage site, nor purely a symbol of abstract state politics....
Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Through the ages it was Islamised and the tomb was ascrib...
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Contemporary Collecting: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781910144312 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Redisplaying Museum Collections: Contemporary Display and Interpretation in British Museums
ISBN: 9781409447078 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book to examine, in depth, the multi-million pound redisplay and reinterpretation process in British museums in the early twenty-first century. Acknowledging the importance of the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) as project catalyst, Hannah Paddon explains and explores the complex process, from the initial stages of project conceptualisation to the final stages of museum re-opening and exhibition evaluation. She also provides an in-depth look, using three case study museums, at the factors which shape each museum redisplay project including topics such as museum architecture,...
This is the first book to examine, in depth, the multi-million pound redisplay and reinterpretation process in British museums in the early twenty-fir...
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Eine Geschichte der Berliner Museen in 227 Häusern
ISBN: 9783422072732 / Angielski / Twarda / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This first complete overview of the history of Berlin's museums documents more than 200 of its most important houses from the Altes Museum to the Zeughaus, from archeological and art historical collections to the museums of natural history and technology, from the courtly cabinet of curiosities of the 16th century to the Computer Games Museum. Hans Georg and Katrin Hiller von Gaertringen, both authorities in the field of museology, focus on the origins, history, collection policy, and architecture of these institutions. This book is arranged chronologically in the order of the opening of the...
This first complete overview of the history of Berlin's museums documents more than 200 of its most important houses from the Altes Museum to the Zeug...
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173,53 zł |
Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs
ISBN: 9781409464891 / Angielski / Twarda / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums, almost no critical attention has been given specifically to the roles, purposes and lives of these photographs within museums. This book brings into focus the ubiquitous yet entirely unconsidered work that photographs are put to in museums. The authors' argument is that there is an economy of...
Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Ye...
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No Touching, No Spitting, No Praying: The Museum in South Asia
ISBN: 9781138796010 / Angielski / Twarda / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South Asia. It traces the museum from its origin as a tool of colonialism and adoption as a vehicle of sovereignty in the nationalist period, till its role in the present, as it reflects the fissured identities of the post-colonial period.
This volume brings together a range of essays that offer a new perspective on the dynamic history of the museum as a cultural institution in South ... |
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Advanced Interpretive Planning: Essential Concepts and Strategies for Today's Interpretive Planners
ISBN: 9781910144374 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Most 'interpretation' is not interpretation at all. It's just information. It may look attractive, but it fails to deliver the message." Based on John Veverka's worldwide experience of high level interpretive consulting and training, the focus of Advanced Interpretive Planning is firmly on enabling museums, galleries and heritage sites to provide visitors with quantifiable, actionable and enjoyable learning experiences. Using a rich variety of real-world examples, John Veverka's passion and enthusiasm for the subject is evident as he introduces new interpretive concepts, shares his in-depth...
"Most 'interpretation' is not interpretation at all. It's just information. It may look attractive, but it fails to deliver the message." Based on Joh...
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337,82 zł |
Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums
ISBN: 9780759124158 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections, and sites to discuss how human practices and interactions with the environment in past were and were not environmentally sustainable. Being green still has a great deal to do with using less energy, buying less stuff, and recycling more, but now sustainability just as important in strategic planning, interpretation and public engagement. Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums details how to go green at every level of your...
Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections...
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445,41 zł |
Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums
ISBN: 9780759124431 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections, and sites to discuss how human practices and interactions with the environment in past were and were not environmentally sustainable. Being green still has a great deal to do with using less energy, buying less stuff, and recycling more, but now sustainability just as important in strategic planning, interpretation and public engagement. Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums details how to go green at every level of your...
Growing public interest in environmental sustainability is a gift to historic sites and museums. It is an invitation to use our knowledge, collections...
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185,59 zł |
Family Ties: Living History in Canadian House Museums: Volume 17
ISBN: 9780773545618 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. House museums act as both sources and suppliers of history. Functioning first as private residences, they are then preserved as commemorative monuments and become living history museums offering theme-based tours led by period-costumed interpreters so that visitors might experience "what it felt like to live back then." In Family Ties, Andrea Terry considers the appeal and relevance of domesticated representations of Victorian material culture in a contemporary multicultural context. Through three case studies, Terry examines Victorian homes that have been repurposed as living history museums...
House museums act as both sources and suppliers of history. Functioning first as private residences, they are then preserved as commemorative monument...
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482,53 zł |
Cultural Networks in Migrating Heritage: Intersecting Theories and Practices Across Europe
ISBN: 9781472448132 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a study of the role of cultural and heritage networks and how they can help institutions and their host societies manage the tensions and realise the opportunities arising from migration. In looking at past and emerging challenges of social inclusion and cultural dialogue, hybrid models of cultural identity, citizenship and national belonging, the study also sets out to answer the questions 'how'. How can cultural institutions leverage the power of cross-border networks in a contested place such as Europe today? How could they elaborate approaches and strategies based on cultural...
This book is a study of the role of cultural and heritage networks and how they can help institutions and their host societies manage the tensions and...
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428,13 zł |
Fairland: Explorations, Insights and Outlooks on the Future of Art Fairs
ISBN: 9783863355494 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do we imagine the art fair of the future? In addition to considering the issues usually invoked in discussions about the contemporary art fair--the relationship between fairs and biennials, questions about the potential cultural role of these events--Fairland explores the phenomenon of -fairization- to describe the way the fair begins to appropriate other cultural forms, and other cultural forms begin to appropriate the conventions of the fair. Edited by Italian curator Francesco Garutti, this volume is a wide-ranging collection of analytical, critical standpoints and possible...
How do we imagine the art fair of the future? In addition to considering the issues usually invoked in discussions about the contemporary art fair--th...
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Managing Cultural Heritage: An International Research Perspective
ISBN: 9781472440365 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heritage as a field of research and collective action has emerged only in the last 40 years, spurred by the 1972 Unesco World Heritage Convention. Conservation was the touchstone discipline of the field, but the highly interdisciplinary nature of heritage has brought in a wide diversity of perspectives that has sometimes posed challenges to mutual understanding. Since the 1990s, heritage studies has emerged as a distinct academic field, and practices and rhetoric drawn from mainstream corporate management and strategic planning have become widespread. Based on fifteen years of field work done...
Heritage as a field of research and collective action has emerged only in the last 40 years, spurred by the 1972 Unesco World Heritage Convention. Con...
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Out of This Century: The Informal Memoirs of Peggy Guggenheim
ISBN: 9781614277781 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 2015 Reprint of 1946 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Peggy Guggenheims autobiographical writing is still the most informative and entertaining account of her full and colorful life. A patron of art since the 1930s, Guggenheim, in this candid self-portrait, provides an insiders view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her personal and professional relationships, and often surprising portrayals of the artists themselves. Here is a book that captures a valuable chapter in...
2015 Reprint of 1946 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Peggy Guggenheims autobiogr...
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