Archangels & Archaeology: J. S. M. Ward's Kingdom of the Wise
ISBN: 9781845194932 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tracing J. S. M. Ward s extraordinary life and career from Edwardian Freemasonry and wartime spiritualism to his apocalyptic visions this biography of the famed spiritualist, mystic, historian, and lifelong collector of antiquities embodies the cultural turmoil of an age of collapsing empires, religious fragmentation, and world war. The work discusses how, in 1934 just outside of London, Ward started the Abbey Folk Park, an innovative history museum where his interest in esoteric heritage, world cultures, and the occult attracted much attention. The book then goes on to show how he was...
Tracing J. S. M. Ward s extraordinary life and career from Edwardian Freemasonry and wartime spiritualism to his apocalyptic visions this biography of...
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145,82 zł |
Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s
ISBN: 9781571818119 / Angielski / Twarda / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors whose diversity is captured in this volume. The contributors to this tightly-integrated volume take these collectors, and the collecting institutions, as the departure point for accounts that look back at the artefact-producing societies and their interaction with the collectors, but also forward to the fate of the collections in... Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of... |
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498,70 zł |
Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites
ISBN: 9781598745962 / Angielski / Twarda / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across America--but they are also contested and reshaped by visitors and their engagement with those places. In Exhibiting Patriotism, Bergman analyzes exhibits, interpretive materials, and orientation films at major US sites, from Mt. Rushmore and to the USS Arizona Memorial, where controversy has erupted over the stories they tell about the past. She shows how historic narratives are the result of dynamic relationships between institutions and the public, and how these relationships are changing in...
American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across America--but they are also contested and reshaped b...
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730,42 zł |
Exhibiting Patriotism: Creating and Contesting Interpretations of American Historic Sites
ISBN: 9781598745979 / Angielski / Miękka / 253 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across America--but they are also contested and reshaped by visitors and their engagement with those places. In Exhibiting Patriotism, Bergman analyzes exhibits, interpretive materials, and orientation films at major US sites, from Mt. Rushmore and to the USS Arizona Memorial, where controversy has erupted over the stories they tell about the past. She shows how historic narratives are the result of dynamic relationships between institutions and the public, and how these relationships are changing in...
American nationalism, patriotism and citizenship are proudly on display at historical sites across America--but they are also contested and reshaped b...
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201,44 zł |
The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London: 1850-1939
ISBN: 9780719084614 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Now available in paperback for the first time, this study of the modern London art market establishes the central importance of London for the development of the modern retail market in fine art. Leading experts track the emergence and development of the structures and practices that have come to characterize the commercial art system, including the commercial art gallery, the professional dealer, the exhibition cycle and its accompanying rhetoric of press coverage and publicity, and an international network for the circulation of goods. This new commercial system involved a massive...
Now available in paperback for the first time, this study of the modern London art market establishes the central importance of London for the develop...
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106,00 zł |
Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity: The Petrified Gaze
ISBN: 9780415529167 / Angielski / Twarda / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum studies perspectives. Ancient sculptures not only give us knowledge about ancient Greek and Roman pasts, but they also mediate ideals that inform modern perceptions of antiquity. This book analyzes how an art historical tradition establishes and preserves an idealized view of antiquity in classical archaeology and in museum exhibitions. The authors investigate how these ideals are kept alive today-an approach that often is neglected in studies... Displaying the Ideals of Antiquity investigates the study and display of ancient sculpture from archaeological, art historical, and museum... |
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705,23 zł |
Indians on Display: Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums
ISBN: 9781611320886 / Angielski / Twarda / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions by George Catlin, paintings by Charles King, and Wild West shows by Buffalo Bill Cody were viewed by millions worldwide. Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how this version of Indians,...
Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, s...
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680,04 zł |
Indians on Display: Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art, and Museums
ISBN: 9781611320893 / Angielski / Miękka / 227 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, sometimes dangerous and violent, sometimes primitive and noble. Creating a fictional wild west, entrepreneurs then exported it around the world. Exhibitions by George Catlin, paintings by Charles King, and Wild West shows by Buffalo Bill Cody were viewed by millions worldwide. Norman Denzin uses a series of performance pieces with historical, contemporary, and fictitious characters to provide a cultural critique of how this version of Indians,...
Even as their nations and cultures were being destroyed by colonial expansion across the continent, American Indians became a form of entertainment, s...
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191,37 zł |
Museums, Heritage and International Development
ISBN: 9780415659512 / Angielski / Twarda / 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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755,61 zł |
Historical Perspectives on Preventive Conservation
ISBN: 9781606061428 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gathers more than 65 texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage, from antiquity to the present day. This title includes John Evelyn's 17th-century tract on air pollution in London and the founding manifesto of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings by William Morris.
Gathers more than 65 texts that have been influential in the development of thinking about the conservation of cultural heritage, from antiquity to th...
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318,15 zł |
Doing Museology Differently
ISBN: 9780415537308 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume offers a critical-creative reflection on the academic practice of museology, taking the form of a narrative account of museological fieldwork. A research story unfolds, challenging academic conventions at the level of its own presentation.
This volume offers a critical-creative reflection on the academic practice of museology, taking the form of a narrative account of museological fieldw...
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730,42 zł |
The Photographic Studios of Europe
ISBN: 9781907697791 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Photographic Studios of Europe, first published in 1882, is the only detailed account available of working practices and conditions in the studios of the leading photographers of the Victorian period. Revealing, surprising, perceptive and authoritative, this first-hand report is based on seeing scores of photographers and their workshops in action. The result is fascinating and valuable both as a social historical record and as a classic of photographic literature. This newly-designed and typeset edition provides - for the first time - a highly readable and accessible selection from the...
The Photographic Studios of Europe, first published in 1882, is the only detailed account available of working practices and conditions in the studios...
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257,37 zł |
Dinosaurs and Dioramas: Creating Natural History Exhibitions
ISBN: 9781611322743 / Angielski / Twarda / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions. The authors introduce the history and function of natural history museums and their importance in teaching visitors the basic principles of science. The book then offers you practical tricks and tips of the trade, to allow museums, aquaria, and zoos--large or small--to tell the story of nature and science. From overall concept to design, construction, and evaluation, the book carries you through the process step-by-step, with emphasis on the importance of...
Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions. The authors introduc...
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680,04 zł |
Dinosaurs and Dioramas: Creating Natural History Exhibitions
ISBN: 9781611322750 / Angielski / Miękka / 159 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions. The authors introduce the history and function of natural history museums and their importance in teaching visitors the basic principles of science. The book then offers you practical tricks and tips of the trade, to allow museums, aquaria, and zoos--large or small--to tell the story of nature and science. From overall concept to design, construction, and evaluation, the book carries you through the process step-by-step, with emphasis on the importance of...
Two experienced exhibit designers lead you through the complex process of design and installation of natural history exhibitions. The authors introduc...
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186,33 zł |
Reconstructing the View: The Grand Canyon Photographs of Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe
ISBN: 9780520273900 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe spent five years exploring the Grand Canyon for their most recent project, Reconstructing the View. The team s landscape photographs are based on the practice of rephotography, in which they identify sites of historic photographs and make new photographs of those precise locations. Klett and Wolfe referenced a wealth of images of the canyon, ranging from historical photographs and drawings by William Bell and William...
Using landscape photography to reflect on broader notions of culture, the passage of time, and the construction of perception, photographers Mark Klet...
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222,71 zł |
The Responsive Museum: Working with Audiences in the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: 9780754645603 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the relationship today between museums, galleries and learning? The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that underpin the educational role of the museum. It unravels the complex relationship of museums with their publics, and discusses today's challenges and the debates that have resulted. The highly experienced team of writers, including museum educators and directors, share their different experiences and views, and review recent research and examples of best practice. They analyse the implications of audience development and broadening public access,...
What is the relationship today between museums, galleries and learning? The Responsive Museum interrogates the thinking, policies and practices that u...
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654,86 zł |
Museums and Communities: Curators, Collections and Collaboration
ISBN: 9780857851314 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities. The book unpacks taken-for-granted notions such as scholarship, community, participation and collaboration, which can gloss over the complexity of identities and lead to tokenistic claims of inclusion by... This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and ... |
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161,14 zł |
Thinking Contemporary Curating
ISBN: 9780916365868 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibition-making; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly of concern, are issues such as rethinking spectatorship, engaging viewers as co-curators and the challenge of curating contemporaneity itself. In these five essays, art historian and theorist Terry...
What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These...
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85,89 zł |
Hunting the Gatherers: Ethnographic Collectors, Agents, and Agency in Melanesia 1870s-1930s
ISBN: 9781571815064 / Angielski / Miękka / 306 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ." . . a most welcome book . . . Reading this book should irrevocably change how one looks at an ethnographic exhibit . . . These wide-ranging articles . . . augment our understanding of museums and their objects . . . Overall, this is a rich collection of essays, brimming with data and, for the most part, cogently analysed." - JRAI Between the 1870s and the 1930s competing European powers carved out and consolidated colonies in Melanesia, the most culturally diverse region of the world. As part of this process, great assemblages of ethnographic artefacts were made by a range of collectors...
." . . a most welcome book . . . Reading this book should irrevocably change how one looks at an ethnographic exhibit . . . These wide-ranging article...
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140,79 zł |
Heritage, Ideology, and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe: Contested Pasts, Contested Presents
ISBN: 9781843837060 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The preservation of architectural monuments has played a key role in the formation of national identities from the nineteenth century to the present. The task of maintaining the collective memories and ideas of a shared heritage often focused on the historic built environment as the most visible sign of a link with the past. The meaning of such monuments and sites has, however, often been the subject of keen dispute: whose heritage is being commemorated, by whom and for whom? The answers to such questions are not always straightforward, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, the recent...
The preservation of architectural monuments has played a key role in the formation of national identities from the nineteenth century to the present. ...
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352,62 zł |