Representing Enslavement and Abolition in Museums: Ambiguous Engagements
ISBN: 9781138802261 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text assesses the impact of the 2007 bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. It also identifies practical issues that public historians, museum practitioners, and policy makers can draw upon in developing responses to the increasing recognition of Britain's history of African enslavement.
This text assesses the impact of the 2007 bicentenary of the Act abolishing British participation in the slave trade. It also identifies practical iss...
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Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture
ISBN: 9781138802247 / Angielski / Miękka / 263 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art.
This text publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London...
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Museum Worlds: Volume 1: Advances in Research
ISBN: 9780857459558 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Museum Studies - as an academic and practical field of research that is rapidly expanding and alive with potential - presents an opportunity and challenge that parallels the explosive growth of museums throughout the world. "Museum Worlds" traces and comments on major regional, theoretical, methodological, and topical themes and debates, and encourages comparison of museum theories, practices, and developments across a variety of settings. Drawing on the expertise and networks of a global editorial board of senior scholars and museum practitioners, "Museum Worlds" both challenges and... Museum Studies - as an academic and practical field of research that is rapidly expanding and alive with potential - presents an opportunity and ch... |
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The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures
ISBN: 9783837628562 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Sounding Museum fuses anthropology, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and transcultural communication within the context of museum education. Based on the piece "Two Weeks in Alert Bay," it supplies researchers, practitioners, and audiences with an instrument to gain an acoustic image of the contemporary cultural and everyday life of the Kwakwaka'wakw of Alert Bay, British Columbia. The project mediates intercultural competence through the affective agency of sound. With the coeval "Session Musician's Approach," introduced and analyzed in text, audio, and interactive form,...
The Sounding Museum fuses anthropology, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and transcultural communication within the context of museum ...
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Smithsonian Stories: Chronicle of a Golden Age, 1964-1984
ISBN: 9781412854597 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why is the Smithsonian more than the "Nation's Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the institution we know today under the twenty-year leadership of "Sun King" S. Dillon Ripley. Ripley aspired to reinvent the Smithsonian as a great university--with museums. Although little understood by the public at large, it began as a basic research center. The Smithsonian remains a key contributor to the world of higher learning and functions diplomatically as the ministry of culture for the United States. Dillon provides backstage insights... Why is the Smithsonian more than the "Nation's Attic?" Or more than a museum complex? As Wilton S. Dillon shows, the Smithsonian came to be the ins... |
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(Re)Visualizing National History: Museums and National Identities in Europe in the New Millennium
ISBN: 9781442627024 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which states (especially imperialist states) use museums to showcase looted artefacts, to document their geographic expansion, to present themselves as the guardians of national treasure, and to educate citizens and subjects. At the same time, a great deal of attention has been paid to reshaping national histories and values in the wake of the collapse of the Communist bloc and the emergence of the European Union. (Re)Visualizing National History... Ideas regarding the role of the museum have become increasingly contentious. In the last fifteen years, scholars have pointed to ways in which stat... |
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Museums and the Material World: Collecting the Arabian Peninsula
ISBN: 9781910144169 / Angielski / Miękka / 540 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The underlying theme of this book is the excitement, and challenge, of creating and transforming collections. The Gulf States are in the middle of "the most explosive per capita museum building boom in history." And this exponential growth is fuelled by many new methods of amassing, preserving or recording the collections which fill them: public or private, archaeological, historical or artistic. In thirteen detailed case-studies and 540 pages, Museums and the Material World provides a unique insight into the pioneering policies and practices of collection building in the region - which in so...
The underlying theme of this book is the excitement, and challenge, of creating and transforming collections. The Gulf States are in the middle of "th...
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Reimagining Museums: Practice in the Arabian Peninsula
ISBN: 9781910144190 / Angielski / Miękka / 696 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience
ISBN: 9781138825277 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure activity. But how much do we really know about the moment-by-moment transactions that comprise the intricate experiences of visitors? To strengthen the disciplinary knowledge base supporting exhibition design, we must understand more about what goes on as people engage with the multifaceted... Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as en... |
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Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum
ISBN: 9781409442493 / Angielski / Twarda / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique book proposes a re-reading of the relationship between artists and the contemporary museum. In Australia in particular, the museum has played a significant role in the colonial project and this has generally been considered as the predominant mode of artists' engagement with such institutions and collections. Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum expands the post-colonial frame of reference used to interpret this work, to demonstrate the broader implications of the relationship between artists and the museum, and thus to offer an alternative way of understanding recent...
This unique book proposes a re-reading of the relationship between artists and the contemporary museum. In Australia in particular, the museum has pla...
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Annual Review of Cultural Heritage Informatics: 2012-2013
ISBN: 9781783300266 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Review: Keeping, managing, and sustaining the objects of cultures both living and dead are topics for the brave imaginations on display in this debut volume of a new series. These scholars are dedicated to practice, reasoning, behaviour, professionalism, and technique in the essential realm of cultural heritage preservation. They are, more than most of the world's scholars, devoted to tracing the treasured continuities of how we live and keep our lives. The reports in this first volume will inform and inspire all parts of our field. -- David Carr, professor emeritus at the University of North...
Review: Keeping, managing, and sustaining the objects of cultures both living and dead are topics for the brave imaginations on display in this debut ...
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Museo luogo di festa: tre casi esemplari in Sabina: University Thesis
ISBN: 9781500954949 / Włoski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nuove frontiere per la conservazione e la valorizzazione dell'identita locale, la tutela e la riscoperta di brani significativi di un territorio ricco e fecondo come e la Sabina."
Nuove frontiere per la conservazione e la valorizzazione dell'identita locale, la tutela e la riscoperta di brani significativi di un territorio ricco...
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Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum
ISBN: 9781629581903 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages, identities, and social classes? Does appealing to a larger audience force museums to 'dumb down' their work? What internal changes are required? Based on a multi-year Kress Foundation-sponsored study of 20 innovative American and European collections-based museums recognized by their peers to be visitor-centered, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the field. The book describes key institutions that have... What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ... |
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Creating the Visitor-Centered Museum
ISBN: 9781629581910 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ages, identities, and social classes? Does appealing to a larger audience force museums to 'dumb down' their work? What internal changes are required? Based on a multi-year Kress Foundation-sponsored study of 20 innovative American and European collections-based museums recognized by their peers to be visitor-centered, Peter Samis and Mimi Michaelson answer these key questions for the field. The book describes key institutions that have... What does the transformation to a visitor-centered approach do for a museum? How are museums made relevant to a broad range of visitors of varying ... |
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Ways of Curating
ISBN: 9780374535698 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The world's most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craft Ways of Curating is a compendium of the insights Obrist has gained from his years of extraordinary work in the art world. It skips between centuries and continents, flitting from meetings with the artists who have inspired him... The world's most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craft |
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Advancing Engagement: A Handbook for Academic Museums, Volume Three
ISBN: 9781910144404 / Angielski / Miękka / 404 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book, the third volume in the Handbook for Academic Museums series, is designed to be a practical resource for museum professionals, to help themthink about theirown institution, its programmes, challenges and opportunities - enlightened by what others have achieved in similar situations, and what might be possible. Advancing Engagement provides examples of best practice, innovation, and good thinking which offer guidance and inspiration for any museum - whether the budget is large or small. "A vital resource... the standard text for generations to come." James Cuno, President & CEO, The...
This book, the third volume in the Handbook for Academic Museums series, is designed to be a practical resource for museum professionals, to help them...
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Daumier and the Amateurs: A Case Study for Art Scholars
ISBN: 9781500496883 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An indispensable book for Daumier Scholars and Students with a new approach to facts and figures about this most prolific artistic genius of the 19th Century.
An indispensable book for Daumier Scholars and Students with a new approach to facts and figures about this most prolific artistic genius of the 19th ...
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The Resilient Cultural Organisation
ISBN: 9780956623522 / Angielski / Miękka / 114 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With ever decreasing funding, the word which abounds in the cultural sector is 'resilience'. But what does it mean to 'be resilient'? How can organisations become resilient? An expert in enterprise, Professor Peter Latchford has been working internationally with cultural organisations including museums, galleries, theatres, archives, libraries and heritage sites to enable them to achieve a state of resilience and succeed in challenging times. In The Resilient Cultural Organisation, Latchford reveals his tried and tested methodology and a range of tools to maximise success in cultural...
With ever decreasing funding, the word which abounds in the cultural sector is 'resilience'. But what does it mean to 'be resilient'? How can organisa...
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Exhibitions and Education: A Handbook for Academic Museums, Volume One
ISBN: 9781910144435 / Angielski / Miękka / 692 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Academic museums have proliferated over the past fifty years and yet they are often misunderstood, even neglected by their primary constituency - the students and faculty of their host universities or colleges. They provide opportunities for research, education, and inspiration, at the very least. This book is a vital resource for anyone working in or concerned about such museums. It will become the standard text for generations to come."
James Cuno, President & CEO, The J. Paul Getty Trust. "In an age of visitor participation and interdisciplinary engagement, academic museums play an... "Academic museums have proliferated over the past fifty years and yet they are often misunderstood, even neglected by their primary constituency - the...
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Distributed Objects: Meaning and Mattering After Alfred Gell
ISBN: 9781782389132 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ..".profound scholarly reflections on the distributed effects of Alfred Gell's endeavor to identify an anthropological theory of ...a captivating pendant piece to Gell's original publication. Itis not meant as a guidebook to understanding Gell's work; rather it is a collection of complex studies that capture distinct engagements with Gell's ideas around an anthropology of art." - Material World "Chua and Elliott have pulled together an excellent volume to address a real problem in the interdisciplinary discussions of art... While I think the volume is most useful for those teaching... ..".profound scholarly reflections on the distributed effects of Alfred Gell's endeavor to identify an anthropological theory of ...a captivating p... |
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