Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism
ISBN: 9781472461759 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern art in the United States. Unlike standard accounts that focus on Surrealism in the U.S. during the 1940s as a point of departure for the ascendance of the New York School, this study contends that Surrealism has been integral to the development of American visual culture over the course of the twentieth century. Through analysis of Surrealism in both the museum and the marketplace, Sandra Zalman tackles Surrealism's multi-faceted circulation as...
Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism argues that Surrealism worked as a powerful agitator to disrupt dominant ideas of modern...
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680,04 zł |
Museum Websites and Social Media: Issues of Participation, Sustainability, Trust, and Diversity
ISBN: 9781782388685 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume offers a holistic picture of museum online activities that can serve as a starting point for cross-disciplinary discussion. It is a resource for museum staff, students, designers, and researchers working at the intersection of cultural institutions and digital technologies. The aim is to provide insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the... Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust bu... |
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498,70 zł |
Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience
ISBN: 9781784993467 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. The establishment of museums throughout the British Empire is increasingly recognised as part of the context of imperialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, both practically and symbolically. Focusing on a range of curators and museums, this collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas influenced the direction of their institutions, the interpretation of material, and the...
Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. The esta...
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79,49 zł |
On Curating II
ISBN: 9781938922909 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. On Curating 2, Carolee Thea's new volume of interviews with 14 of today's leading curators, explores the lively system of art biennials that is thriving around the world--particularly outside Europe and America. Spawned by their more formal Western predecessors and motivated by the forces of history and politics, the newer incarnations of the biennial often occur in the cities of the postcolonial world and the Global South, as well as in former socialist countries. The new generation of curators who are organizing these surprisingly provocative and experimental exhibitions hail from...
On Curating 2, Carolee Thea's new volume of interviews with 14 of today's leading curators, explores the lively system of art biennials that is...
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128,94 zł |
Für die Nation gesichert? : Das "Verzeichnis der national wertvollen Kunstwerke": Entstehung, Etablierung und Instrumentalisierung 1919-1945
ISBN: 9783110440553 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 532 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Der Schutz des deutschen Kunstbesitzes vor der Abwanderung ins Ausland wurde mit der Reichsverfassung von 1919 zum obersten Staatsziel erklart. Seitdem werden Kunstwerke in Privatbesitz fur das -Verzeichnis der national wertvollen Kunstwerke- ausgewahlt. Die vorliegende Publikation beleuchtet die kunsthistorischen und kulturpolitischen Dimensionen des deutschen Kunstausfuhrschutzes in der Weimarer Republik und der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. Diskurse, Akteure und die verzeichneten Objekte stehen im Zentrum der Betrachtung. Die Suche nach Auswahlkriterien fur -national wertvolle-... Der Schutz des deutschen Kunstbesitzes vor der Abwanderung ins Ausland wurde mit der Reichsverfassung von 1919 zum obersten Staatsziel erklart. Sei... |
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217,23 zł |
Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries
ISBN: 9780198759096 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, literary house museums, and the landscapes or "countries" associated with their lives and works. An interdisciplinary study ranging from 1820-1940, Homes and Haunts: Touring Writers' Shrines and Countries unites museum and tourism studies, book history, narrative theory, theories of gender, space, and things, and other approaches to depict and interpret the haunting experiences of exhibited houses and the curious history of...
This is the first full-length study of literary tourism in North America as well as Britain and a unique exploration of popular response to writers, l...
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426,26 zł |
Management Planning for Cultural Heritage: Places and Their Significance
ISBN: 9781138857742 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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680,04 zł |
Having and Belonging: Homes and Museums in Israel
ISBN: 9781785331343 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy, the other is conceived of as a public institution oriented around various forms of civic identity. This meticulous, insightful book draws striking connections between both spheres, which play similar roles by housing objects and generating social narratives. Through fascinating explorations of the museums and domestic spaces of eight representative Israeli communities-Chabad, Moroccan, Iraqi, Ethiopian, Russian, Religious-Zionist, Christian... The home and the museum are typically understood as divergent, even oppositional, social realms: whereas one evokes privacy and familial intimacy,... |
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498,70 zł |
Early Modern Merchants as Collectors
ISBN: 9781472469823 / Angielski / Twarda / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Early Modern Merchants as Collectors encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vital activity that has engaged many different groups within society. The essays included in this volume consider merchants not only as important collectors in their own right, as opposed to merely agents or middlemen, but also as innovators who determined taste. Through bringing together contributions on merchant collectors across a wide geographical spread, including England, The Netherlands, Venice, Moghul India, China and Japan, among other...
Early Modern Merchants as Collectors encourages the rethinking of collecting not as an elite, often aristocratic pursuit, but rather as a vit...
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755,61 zł |
Silver in Georgian Dublin: Making, Selling, Consuming
ISBN: 9781472427878 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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780,79 zł |
Egypt: Millenary Splendour the Leiden Collection in Bologna
ISBN: 9788857230153 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Egyptian collections of two major European museums.
The Egyptian collections of two major European museums.
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344,40 zł |
Curating Difficult Knowledge: Violent Pasts in Public Places
ISBN: 9781349333905 / Angielski / Miękka / 239 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and post-conflict reconciliation. As practitioners, artists, curators, activists and academics, the contributors explore the challenges of bearing witness to past conflicts.
This volume inscribes an innovative domain of inquiry, bringing museum and heritage studies to bear on questions of transitional justice, memory and p...
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466,91 zł |
Collaborative Heritage Management
ISBN: 9781463205706 / Angielski / Twarda / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this volume, practitioners within archaeology, anthropology, urban planning, human geography, cultural resource management (CRM) and museology push the boundaries of traditional cultural and natural heritage management and reflect how heritage discourse is being increasingly re-theorised in term of experience.
In this volume, practitioners within archaeology, anthropology, urban planning, human geography, cultural resource management (CRM) and museology push...
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589,38 zł |
Marco Anelli: Building Magazzino
ISBN: 9780847861019 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Celebrated Italian photographer Marco Anelli captures the construction of Magazzino Italian Art, a new Hudson Valley institution dedicated to postwar and contemporary Italian art.
The transformation and expansion of a 1960s factory building in Cold Spring, NY to house an extraordinary art collection has been documented by Marco Anelli, Magazzino Italian Art's first artist in residence. From initial excavations to the installation of artworks in the galleries, Anelli traces Spanish architect Miguel Quismondo's plan to create a space that bridges the artistic legacy of the Hudson Valley... Celebrated Italian photographer Marco Anelli captures the construction of Magazzino Italian Art, a new Hudson Valley institution dedicated to postwar ...
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212,10 zł |
Disaster Management in Archives, Libraries, and Museums
ISBN: 9781138270350 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This important book assesses the current state of disaster management in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and around the world, and provides recommendations for addressing current and future threats. Following an introductory outline of the topic and terminology, the authors provide a short history of the development of disaster management in the cultural heritage sector. They illustrate a basic framework for effective disaster management by reviewing disaster control plan practice from around the world. Through examining and identify the key issues affecting disaster management in...
This important book assesses the current state of disaster management in archives, libraries and museums in the UK and around the world, and provides ...
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271,97 zł |
Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London: The Burlington Fine Arts Club
ISBN: 9781138232624 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen s club with a singular remit to exhibit members art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians, and museum curators. Exhibitions at their grand house in Mayfair brought many private collections and collectors to light, using members social connections to draw upon the finest and most diverse objects available. Through their unique mode of presentation, which brought museum-style display and... The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen s club with a singular remit to exhibit members art collections. Exhibit... |
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780,79 zł |
Shoah Presence: Architectural Representations of the Holocaust
ISBN: 9781138246010 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which architecture as a discipline, a practice and a discourse represents the Holocaust. In doing so, it problematises how one presents an extreme historical case in a contemporary context and integrates the historical into actuality. By examining several cases, the book defines the issues faced by various architects who dealt with this topic and discusses their separate and distinctive approaches. In each case, it analyses the ways in which the...
Through the analysis of several commemorative acts in space, matter and image, namely museums and memorials, this book reflects on the ways in which a...
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261,89 zł |
Museum Bodies: The Politics and Practices of Visiting and Viewing
ISBN: 9781138248113 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged, prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from their emergence in the eighteenth century to the present day. As long as museums have existed, their visitors have been scrutinised, both formally and informally, and their behaviour calibrated as a register of cognitive receptivity and cultural competence. Yet there has been little sustained theoretical or practical attention given to the visitors' embodied encounter with the museum. In Museum Bodies Helen Rees Leahy discusses the politics and practice of visitor...
Museum Bodies provides an account of how museums have staged, prescribed and accommodated a repertoire of bodily practices, from their emergence in th...
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261,89 zł |
A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage
ISBN: 9781138950924 / Angielski / Miękka / 902 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heritage and Interpretation is an introductory reader for postgraduate students of heritage studies, museum studies and those interested in how we conceptualise and use the past. Widening the scope of heritage studies by drawing on a range of disciplines as well as the best from established sources, the book also explores heritage through new areas of knowledge including emotion and affect, the politics of dissent, migration and intercultural and participatory dimensions of heritage. This blending of traditional topics and emerging trends, established theory and concepts from... Heritage and Interpretation is an introductory reader for postgraduate students of heritage studies, museum studies and those interested i... |
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226,63 zł |
A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage
ISBN: 9781138950931 / Angielski / Twarda / 902 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heritage and Interpretation is an introductory reader for postgraduate students of heritage studies, museum studies and those interested in how we conceptualise and use the past. Widening the scope of heritage studies by drawing on a range of disciplines as well as the best from established sources, the book also explores heritage through new areas of knowledge including emotion and affect, the politics of dissent, migration and intercultural and participatory dimensions of heritage. This blending of traditional topics and emerging trends, established theory and concepts from... Heritage and Interpretation is an introductory reader for postgraduate students of heritage studies, museum studies and those interested i... |
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680,04 zł |