Art and Museum in Africa: A decolonial perspective
ISBN: 9789956554126 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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153,54 zł |
Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England
ISBN: 9780300068900 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and displayed. Annie Coombes argues that this activity had profound repercussions for the construction of a national identity within Britain itself-the effects of which are still with us today. Through a series of detailed case studies, Coombes analyzes the popular and scientific knowledge of Africa which shaped a diverse public's perception of that continent: the looting and display of the Benin "bronzes" from Nigeria; ethnographic museums; the...
Between 1890 and 1918, British colonial expansion in Africa led to the removal of many African artifacts that were subsequently brought to Britain and...
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282,19 zł |
When We Were Young: New Perspectives on the Art of the Child
ISBN: 9780520250437 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his last and most overarching essay on the subject, Rudolf Arnheim encourages us to see the range of individuality in children's drawings and to recognize the child's creation of "significant form" as a way of bringing coherence to his or her experience of the world. This groundbreaking book brings together distinguished critics and scholars, including Rudolf Arnheim, to explore children's art and its profound but rarely documented history. The contributors address central questions of how children use art to make sense of their experience and what really constitutes visual "giftedness" in...
In his last and most overarching essay on the subject, Rudolf Arnheim encourages us to see the range of individuality in children's drawings and to re...
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193,16 zł |
Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes: The Anthropology of Museums
ISBN: 9780774804837 / Angielski / Miękka / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes, Michael Ames examines the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world. The author, an internationally renowned museum director, challenges popular concepts and criticisms of museums and presents an alternative perspective which reflects his study of critical social theory and his experience from many years of museum work. Based on the author's previous book, Museums, the Public and Anthropology, this edition includes seven new essays which argue that museums and anthropologists must contextualize and critique... In Cannibal Tours and Glass Boxes, Michael Ames examines the role and responsibility of museums and anthropology in the contemporary world. ... |
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173,30 zł |
Collecting and Historical Consciousness in Early Nineteenth-Century Germany: Sacrificial Sons and the Father's Witness
ISBN: 9780801437526 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative book challenges long-held assumptions about the nature of historical consciousness in Germany. Susan A. Crane argues that the ever-more-elaborate preservation of the historical may actually reduce the likelihood that history can be experienced with the freshness and individuality characteristic of the early collectors and preservationists. Her book is both a study of the emergence in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Germany of a distinctively modern conception of historical consciousness, and a meditation on what was lost as historical thought became...
This provocative book challenges long-held assumptions about the nature of historical consciousness in Germany. Susan A. Crane argues that the ever-mo...
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402,69 zł |
Museums and the Construction of Disciplines: Art and Archaeology in Nineteenth-Century Britain
ISBN: 9780715635087 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical separation of 'archaeological' and 'artistic' material culture, looking especially at the ways in which objects and histories were contested within museum politics. For example, in the 1850s, the status of Egyptian antiquities as 'art' or 'archaeology' was keenly debated, and this related closely to questions about... Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Brit... |
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132,48 zł |
The Hermitage: 250 Masterworks
ISBN: 9780847842094 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlights from the palatial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg are beautifully reproduced in this accessible volume celebrating the museum's 250th anniversary.
Highlights from the palatial Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg are beautifully reproduced in this accessible volume celebrating the museum's 250th an...
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160,97 zł |
Museums, Heritage and International Development
ISBN: 9781138244924 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between museums, heritage and development has received little academic scrutiny. This book stages a critical conversation between the interdisciplinary fields of museum studies, heritage studies and development studies to explore this under-researched sphere of development intervention. In an agenda-setting introduction, the editors explore the seemingly oppositional temporalities and values represented by these "past-making" and "future-making" projects,... While many claims are made regarding the power of cultural heritage as a driver and enabler of sustainable development, the relationship between mu... |
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275,19 zł |
The Problematic of Video Art in Museum, 1968-1990
ISBN: 9781604976502 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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551,73 zł |
Academic Anthropology and the Museum: Back to the Future
ISBN: 9781571818256 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology - so much so that the "social" and the "material" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals who might have benefitted... The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scie... |
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504,63 zł |
Berlin, Gestern und heute. Berlin, Yesterday and today : Text deutsch-englisch
ISBN: 9783865686091 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 120 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reliving the momentous events in the German capital s history, this volume contends that no other city has changed its face so rapidly in the past century as Berlin. The preWorld War I era is covered before moving onto the 1930s megalomania of Hitler and the overwhelming damage of World War II. Chronicling the city s rebirth, the study depicts its exhaustive reconstruction along with the constitution of the Berlin Wall. The city center s evolution from the 18th to the 21st centuries is also detailed, comparing historical material with current photographs. This bilingual edition includes...
Reliving the momentous events in the German capital s history, this volume contends that no other city has changed its face so rapidly in the past cen...
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58,74 zł |
Intangible Natural Heritage: New Perspectives on Natural Objects
ISBN: 9780415884921 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, and emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environment that combine to create natural objects, and help define our relationship to them. These elements can be sensory, like the sound of a landscape, or processes like natural selection. As a concept, intangible natural heritage is growing in prominence, as museums are increasingly charged with safeguarding and interpreting the milieux from which their objects originate. Intangible Natural Heritage assembles a diversity of approaches as a...
The topic of intangible natural heritage is new, and emerging as an important subject of inquiry. It describes the untouchable elements of the environ...
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739,10 zł |
Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums Volume 6
ISBN: 9780773539068 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on...
Ruth Phillips argues that these practices are "indigenous" not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distincti...
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177,06 zł |
The Ring Bit: History, Form, & Function
ISBN: 9780764338878 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A definitive reference on the ring bit, considered by some as one of the most humane and effective bits for a horse bridle. From as far back as the fourteenth century cavalry units of European, Middle Eastern, and Asian empires through the Spanish Colonial Period to today, this book offers insights into the history, function, and uses of the ring bit. In addition to the story of the ring bit, examples of early Moorish and Arab ring bits, as well as 16th-century Spanish bits are beautifully portrayed in detail. While no longer the bit of favor, the book documents modern uses of the ring bit in...
A definitive reference on the ring bit, considered by some as one of the most humane and effective bits for a horse bridle. From as far back as the fo...
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234,42 zł |
Building Museums: A Handbook for Small & Midsize Organizations
ISBN: 9780873518475 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Perhaps your museum's archives have run out of space, or its public programs have outgrown their facility. Perhaps a generous donor or an energetic campaign has provided the funding for a renovation, a new wing, or a new building. Whatever the circumstances, small and midsized museums can find themselves taking on a construction project. But those responsible for seeing that it's done right--board members, museum professionals, and skilled museum volunteers--are seldom experienced in the high-stakes world of construction management.
This handbook outlines the processes and explains... Perhaps your museum's archives have run out of space, or its public programs have outgrown their facility. Perhaps a generous donor or an energetic ca...
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128,31 zł |
Film, Art, New Media: Museum Without Walls?
ISBN: 9780230272927 / Angielski / Twarda / 358 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the footsteps of Andre Bazin, this anthology of 15 original essays argues that the photographic origin of twentieth-century cinema is anti-anthropocentric. Well aware that the twentieth century stands out as the only period in history with its own photographic film record for posterity, Angela Dalle Vacche has convened international scholars at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and asked them to rethink the history and theory of the cinema as a new model for the museum of the future. By exploring the art historical tropes of face and landscape, and key areas of film studies...
In the footsteps of Andre Bazin, this anthology of 15 original essays argues that the photographic origin of twentieth-century cinema is anti-anthropo...
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389,98 zł |
Henry Ossawa Tanner: Modern Spirit
ISBN: 9780520270756 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This beautiful book, companion publication to the exhibition of the same name, presents a complex overview of the life and career of the pioneering African American artist Henry O. Tanner (1859-1937). Recognized as the patriarch of African American artists, Tanner forged a path to international success, powerfully influencing younger black artists who came after him. Following a preface by David Driskell, the essays in this book--written by international scholars including Alan Braddock, Michael Leja, Jean-Claude Lesage, Richard Powell, Marc Simpson, Tyler Stovall, and Helene Valance--explore...
This beautiful book, companion publication to the exhibition of the same name, presents a complex overview of the life and career of the pioneering Af...
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134,14 zł |
A Study of Bows and Arrows
ISBN: 9781614271376 / Angielski / Miękka / 110 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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90,20 zł |
Separating Sheep from Goats: Sherman E. Lee and Chinese Art Collecting in Postwar America
ISBN: 9780520297425 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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295,10 zł |
The Future of Indigenous Museums: Perspectives from the Southwest Pacific
ISBN: 9781845455965 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a number of motives, ranging from the commercial to the cultural political (and many combine both). A close study of this phenomenon is not only valuable for museological practice but, as has been argued, it may challenge our current bedrock assumptions about the very nature and purpose of the museum. This book looks to the future of museum practice through examining how museums have evolved particularly in the non-western world to incorporate the... Indigenous museums and cultural centres have sprung up across the developing world, and particularly in the Southwest Pacific. They derive from a n... |
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142,46 zł |