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  • Catalogue of Works of Art Catalogue of Works of Art
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    Catalogue of Works of Art

    Take a virtual tour of the Museum of Fine Arts in this comprehensive catalogue of its works of art. From the Renaissance to contemporary art, this book showcases some of the most iconic pieces in the museum's collection.This work has been selected by...
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  • Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum
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    Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum

    This volume provides a complete guide to the collections of the British Museum, one of the world's greatest museums. With detailed descriptions of each of the museum's galleries and collections, this volume is an invaluable resource for anyone interested...
    $57.00

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  • Histoire du Louvre Histoire du Louvre
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    Histoire du Louvre

    L'Histoire du Louvre est une exploration détaillée de l'une des institutions culturelles les plus importantes du monde. De la forteresse médiévale d'origine au musée mondial d'art et d'antiquités que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, Louis Hautecoeur propose...
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  • The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction
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    The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction

    The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Destruction presents a comprehensive view on the destruction of cultural heritage and offers insights into this multifaceted, interdisciplinary phenomenon; the methods scholars have used to study it; and the results...
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  • Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology
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    Collecting and Exhibiting Computer-Based Technology

    Computer technology has transformed modern society, yet curators wishing to reflect those changes face difficult challenges in terms of both collecting and exhibiting. This book examines how curators at the Smithsonian Institution have met these...
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    ngargee Coming together to celebrate
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    ngargee Coming together to celebrate

    Aboriginal art practice in southeast Australia is dynamic, innovative and powerful. This is clear from the diverse artworks in this book which celebrate contemporary Aboriginal artists and their continuation of Ancestral knowledge. The artworks shown are...
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  • Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions
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    Contemporary Asian Art and Exhibitions

    This volume draws together essays by leading art experts observing the dramatic developments in Asian art and exhibitions in the last two decades. The authors explore new regional and global connections and new ways of understanding contemporary Asian...
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  • Museums After Modernism
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    Museums After Modernism

    Museums After Modernism is a unique collectionthat showcases the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art. The book features expert artists, curators and art...
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  • Exhibition Experiments
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    Exhibition Experiments

    Exhibition Experiments is a lively collection that considers experiments with museological form that challenge our understanding of - and experience with - museums. Explores examples of museum experimentalism in light of cutting-edge museum theory ...
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  • New Museum Theory and Practice
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    New Museum Theory and Practice

    New Museum Theory and Practice is an original collection of essays with a unique focus: the contested politics and ideologies of museum exhibition. Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field while creating a collective whole for course use...
    $361.00

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  • Plunder?
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    Plunder?

    In this thought-provoking new work, historian Justin M. Jacobs challenges the widely accepted belief that much of Western museums' treasures were acquired by imperialist plunder and theft. The account re-examines the allegedly immoral provenance...
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  • Imagined Museums
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    Imagined Museums

    Imagined MuseumsIn this first cultural history of modern Moroccan art and its museums, Pieprzak goes beyond the investigation of national institutions to treat the history and evolution of multiple museums-from official state and corporate exhibition...
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  • Showing resistance
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    Showing resistance

    How did exhibitions become a vital tool for public communication in early twentieth century Britain? Showing resistance reveals how exhibitions were taken up by activists and politicians from 1933 to 1953, becoming manifestos, weapons of war and a means...
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  • Exhibiting Irishness
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    Exhibiting Irishness

    Exhibiting Irishness analyses how exhibitions enabled Irish individuals and groups to work out (privately and publicly) their politicised existences across two centuries. As a cultural history of Irish identity, the book considers exhibitions as a...
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    Battle for the Museum
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    Battle for the Museum

    Culture and power have been bedfellows since ancient times. But now, more than ever, exhibits and the organisations responsible for them have become part of our troubled politics. Protests force out problematic patrons and curators, and pressure museums...
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  • Windows for the world
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    Windows for the world

    Windows for the world explores the display and reception of nineteenth-century British stained glass in a secular exhibition context. International in scope, the book focuses on the global development of stained glass in this period as showcased at, and...
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  • Heritopia
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    Heritopia

    Herbitopia investigates the meanings of the past in the present, focusing on Abu Simbel in Egypt and other World Heritage sites. This book explores and resolves a number of paradoxes: the past is impossible to preserve for eternity, all...
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    Temple of Science
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    Temple of Science

    Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with...
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  • Museum Miscellany, A
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    Museum Miscellany, A

    Bursting with quirky facts, intriguing statistics, lists and legendary curators, this is the perfect gift for all those who love to visit museums and galleries.Which are the oldest museums in the world? What is a cabinet of curiosities? Who haunts...
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    Curious Devices and Mighty Machines
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    Curious Devices and Mighty Machines

    Science museums have paradoxes at their core. They must be accessible and fun while representing increasingly complex science. They must be both historic and contemporary. Their exhibits attract millions, but most of their objects remain in deep storage,...
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  • Curating empire
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    Curating empire

    Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in moulding and representing the British imperial experience. This collection demonstrates how individuals, their curatorial practices, and intellectual and political agendas...
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    When Artists Curate
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    When Artists Curate

    An increasing proportion of exhibitions are curated by artists rather than professional curators. In this ground-breaking book Alison Green provides the first critical history of visual artists curating exhibitions. The artist emerges as someone who...
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  • Wendy Red Star: Delegation
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    Wendy Red Star: Delegation

    Delegation is the first comprehensive monograph by Apsalooke/Crow artist Wendy Red Star, whose photography recasts historical narratives with wit, candor, and a feminist, Indigenous perspective.Red Star centers Native American life and material culture...
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    Becoming Isabella

    BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER"Brings Isabella Stewart Gardner fully, intimately alive-irrepressible and avid for life. In this richly compelling novel, Emily Franklin beautifully conjures this extraordinary woman and her world."-Claire Messud, author of The...
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  • Stories from small museums
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    Stories from small museums

    Combining academic rigour with a lively writing style, Stories from small museums is essential reading for students and museum enthusiasts alike.During the late-twentieth century, the number of museums in the UK dramatically increased. Typically small...
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    Taking place
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    Taking place

    Taking place examines feminist and queer alternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present. It looks at how queer and feminist artists working in the present day engage with, respond to and challenge the...
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  • Mummified
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    Mummified

    The unsettling stories of how Egyptian mummies came to be held in British and French museums.We all know what a mummy is or do we? In Mummified, Angela Stienne explores the little-known stories behind the Ancient Egyptian remains displayed in British and...
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  • Bog bodies Bog bodies
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    Bog bodies

    The 'bog bodies' of north-western Europe have captured the imaginations of poets and archaeologists alike, allowing us to come face-to-face with individuals from the past. Their exceptional preservation permits us to examine minute details of their lives...
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    Curatopia

    What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these...
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  • Dividing the spoils
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    Dividing the spoils

    At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the motivations and circumstances whereby collections were appropriated and acquired during colonial...
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  • Performing heritage
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    Performing heritage

    Performing Heritage is the first book to bring together the range of voices, debates and practices that constitute the fields of museum theatre and live interpretation. Inspiring and challenging in its scope and level of debate, Performing Heritage...
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  • Nature and culture
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    Nature and culture

    Newly available in paperback, this book takes the University of Manchester's Museum as its subject. By setting the museum in its cultural and intellectual contexts, Nature and culture explores twentieth-century collecting and display, and the status of...
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  • Museums and empire
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    Museums and empire

    Museums and empire is the first book to examine the origins and development of museums in six major regions if the British Empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It analyses museum histories in thirteen major centres in Canada, South Africa,...
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  • Understanding heritage and memory
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    Understanding heritage and memory

    Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by 'virtual', 'intangible' and 'multicultural'...
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  • The Etruscan language
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    The Etruscan language

    A revised, updated and expanded edition of the first concise introduction to the study of the Etruscan language in English. Originally published in 1983 and translated into a number of other languages, the work is a standard historical reference and a...
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  • After the End of Art
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    After the End of Art

    Originally delivered as the prestigious Mellon Lectures on the Fine Arts in 1995, After the End of Art remains a classic of art criticism and philosophy, and continues to generate heated debate for contending that art ended in the 1960s. Arthur Danto,...
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  • Whose Culture?
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    Whose Culture?

    The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of...
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  • The Care of Fine Books
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    The Care of Fine Books

    "The Care of Fine Books" is a thorough, readable guide to caring for books of value. From a discussion of the various techniques and materials used in bookbinding to advice on handling and storage, Jane Greenfield has created a succinct yet complete...
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