Museology and heritage studies Books
Archetype Publications Ltd Integrated Pest Management for Cultural Heritage
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£999.99
Smithsonian Books Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science,
Book SynopsisHow do we come to know the world around us? What about worlds apart from our own—outer space, distant cultures, or even long-past eras of history? Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts explores these questions and suggests an answer: we come to know our world and worlds apart through the objects that represent them. Objects are a window, and by looking through them we can learn and understand more about the people who made them and the time and place they came from. In the pursuit of this understanding museums are invaluable; they are repositories not just of things but also of past, present, and future knowledge. Engaging Smithsonian Objects puts these ideas into practice, using objects to bring us to new knowledge and showing how museums support us in the endeavor. The book is organized around ten objects from the Smithsonian’s vast collections. Some of the objects are iconic—the Ruby Slippers from the The Wizard of Oz or three Stradivarius string instruments—while others are more ordinary, though no less interesting—an Iron Lung or a Hawaiian gourd drum. Two different authors with expertise in different academic disciplines write about each object from their unique professional and personal perspective. Both the authors and the ten featured objects represent a range of academic disciplines, from art to anthropology to geology. Taken together, the twenty essays in the book demonstrate just how much we can learn from objects by considering their kaleidoscopic meaning and significance from a variety of viewpoints. The book’s interdisciplinary engagement with objects was inspired by the Smithsonian Material Culture Forum, now in its twenty-sixth year. For students of material culture and museum studies, this book illustrates the vitality and value of exploring material culture through the lens of intersecting disciplinary perspectives. For students of curiosity and lifelong learning, this book offers a lively and thoughtful look into the Smithsonian’s collection and the many vibrant worlds it represents. Richly illustrated with color plates and photographs throughout, Engaging Smithsonian Objects through Science, History, and the Arts is a beautiful and stimulating answer to the question, “How do we know our world, and how can we know more?”
£30.39
Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department Conserving Active Matter
Book SynopsisConsiders the future of conservation and its connection to the human sciences. This volume brings together the findings from a five-year research project that seeks to reimagine the relationship between conservation knowledge and the humanistic study of the material world. The project, “Cultures of Conservation,” was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and included events, seminars, and an artist-in-residence. The effort to conserve things amid change is part of the human struggle with the nature of matter. For as long as people have made things and kept things, they have also cared for and repaired them. Today, conservators use a variety of tools and categories developed over the last one hundred and fifty years to do this work, but in the coming decades, new kinds of materials and a new scale of change will pose unprecedented challenges. Looking ahead to this moment from the perspectives of history, philosophy, materials science, and anthropology, this volume explores new possibilities for both conservation and the humanities in the rethinking of active matter.Trade Review"This book pursues conservation as an interdisciplinary endeavor, bringing together scholars of material culture, history, philosophy, Indigeneity, material scientists and conservators to take a stake in conservation, “together-apart,” borrowing from Karen Barad, in a mindful way and on a scale that is unprecedented to date." -- Hanna B. Hölling * Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte *Table of ContentsPreface: Report on a Research Project Acknowledgments Introduction: Conserving Active Matter and the ConservatorSoon Kai Poh Introduction: Conserving Active Matter and the HistorianPeter N. Miller1. Philosophyone Introduction: Active Matter—Some Initial Philosophical ConsiderationsIvan Gaskell and A. W. Eatontwo The Expressive Import of Degradation and Decay in Contemporary ArtSherri Irvinthree The Look of Age: Appearance and RealityCarolyn Korsmeyerfour The Aesthetics of RepairYuriko Saito five Death and Entanglement: Some Thoughts about Life, Love, and the Aims of Art ConservationAlva Noë2. Historysix Introduction: Conserving Active Matter and the Art Historian’s CraftIttai Weinrybseven Active Matter in Presocratic Thought?André Lakseight Active Matter: A Philosophical Aberration or a Very Old Belief?Guido Giglioninine Oak and Oil, Chalk and Flint—Rood Screens and ChurchesSpike Bucklowten Bread and Wine, Body and BloodLee Palmer Wandel3. Indigenous Ontologieseleven Introduction: For the Lives of Things—Indigenous Ontologies of Active MatterAaron Glasstwelve Living Knowledge in Cultural CollectionsSven Haakansonthirteen The Orator’s Dilemma: Wampum as Material, Media, Medicine, and MemoryJamie Jacobs fourteen Always Becoming Better Stewards: Caring for Collections at the National Museum of the American IndianKelly McHughfifteen Hoki Mauri: Bring Back the Life EssenceRose Evans4. Materialssixteen Introduction: Developing Informed and Sustainable Responses to the Alteration of Cultural Artifacts; Materials Engineering Meets Material CultureJennifer L. Massseventeen Contextualizing the Installation of Tania Bruguera’s Untitled (Havana 2000)Chris McGlincheyeighteen Moving beyond the Binaries: Exploring the Active Matter of Metal Soaps in PaintFrancesca Casadionineteen Characterizing the Immaterial: Noninvasive Imaging and Analysis of Stephen Benton’s Engine no. 9Marc Walton, Pengxiao Hao, Marc Vermeulen, Florian Willomitzer, and Oliver Cossairttwenty Making Meiji Red: Semiotic Activity in the Colors of Japanese Woodblock Prints, 1864–1900Marco Leona and Henry D. Smith II Appendix: Events of the Research Project Conserving Active Matter Index Contributors
£46.80
Rutgers University Press Memories before the State: Postwar Peru and the
Book SynopsisHonorable Mention for Best Book Award from the Historia Reciente y Memoria Section of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA)Memories before the State examines the discussions and debates surrounding the creation of the Place of Memory, Tolerance, and Social Inclusion (LUM), a national museum in Peru that memorializes the country’s internal armed conflict of the 1980s and 1990s. Emerging from a German donation that the Peruvian government initially rejected, the Lima-based museum project experienced delays, leadership changes, and limited institutional support as planners and staff devised strategies that aligned the LUM with a new class of globalized memorial museums and responded to political realities of the country’s postwar landscape. The book analyzes forms of authority that emerge as an official institution seeks to incorporate and manage diverse perspectives on recent violence. Trade Review“Engaging, accessible and captivating, Memories before the State draws a compelling and textured portrait of the politics involved in the construction of a national museum of memory and presents a nuanced examination of how memory is influenced by global discourses and local forces.” -- Olga González * Associate Professor, Anthropology Department, Associate Dean, Kofi Annan Institute for Global Citize *"Focusing primarily on Peru’s single national museum dedicated to memory of the internal conflict, Feldman offers an analysis of contemporary memory politics in state-sanctioned spaces. His insights speak to wider debates on memorial museums globally." -- Cynthia Milton * Professor, University of Victoria, Department of History, Past President of the College of New Schol *"A welcome contribution to memory studies. Feldman documents how liberal elites curate an official story of Peru’s internal conflict (1980-2000), framing what they believe their country needs to cope with legacies of mass violence." -- Isaias Rojas-Perez * Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Rutgers University-Newark *"New Books Network - New Books in Latin American Studies" interview with Joseph P. Feldman * New Books Network - New Books in Latin American Studies *"Memories before the State is a valuable contribution to memory studies, and it will be beneficial for students and practitioners with interests in museums, human rights, and recent memory politics in Peru and beyond." * NACLA Report on the Americas *“As I read, I was captivated by Feldman’s compelling and detailed narrative. He takes the reader on a journey that complicates easy assumptions about the transformative potential of memory museums by showing us how, in multiple ways, they are embedded in institutional and political realities that often perpetuate social hierarchies and colonial histories that undergird the violence being memorialized in the first place.” -- María Elena García * Journal of Anthropological Research *"Memories Before the State is an important contribution to literature on memory and the state, as well as to post-conflict memory studies in Peru and Latin America. Its insight on how memory is shaped by institutions, and perhaps more importantly how institutions are shaped by memory, should prove useful to educators and museum practitioners, as well of course to scholars, in the decades to come." -- Daniel Willis * Memory Studies *Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Place, Memory, and the Postwar 2. Enacting Post-Conflict Nationhood 3. Yuyanapaq Doesn’t Fit 4. “There Isn’t Just One Memory, There Are Many Memories” 5. Memory under Construction 6. Memory’s Futures Acknowledgments Notes References Index
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Bohlau Verlag Hitlers Sonderauftrag Ostmark: Kunstraub und
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£55.29
Bohlau Verlag Zur Geschichte der österreichischen
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£119.86
Bohlau Verlag Museum Der Vermittlung: Kulturvermittlung in
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£27.00
Bohlau Verlag Die Abteilung »Kunstschutz« in Italien:
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£64.91
Bohlau Verlag Zeitgeschichte der Dinge: Spurensuchen in der
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£46.45
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Zwischen Kunst, Wissenschaft Und Politik: Die
Book SynopsisMuseumsarbeit im Nationalsozialismus
£68.01
Bohlau Verlag Sexualitaten sammeln: Anspruche und Widerspruche
Book SynopsisText in German. As soon as museums deal with sexualities using objects, questions arise about representation, power and responsibility. How can museums meet the requirement to record and depict as many perspectives as possible? How can one deal with the fact that another void opens up with the decision for an object? And what role do the feelings of the museum staff play in this? The anthology gives practitioners the chance to have their say, reflecting on the demands and challenges of working with objects related to sexuality.
£999.99
Harrassowitz Der Umkampfte Krieg: Das Museum Des Zweiten
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£30.00
Harrassowitz Museum Politicum
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£28.93
Dietrich Reimer The Nature of Things: Stories from a Natural
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£38.00
Dietrich Reimer Kunst - Kopie - Technik: Galvanoplastische
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£50.29
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Von Der Hauptstadtposse Zur Erfolgsgeschichte:
Book SynopsisDas Buch beschreibt die Geschichte des JÃdischen Museums Berlin und die Entstehung des weltberÃhmten Libeskind-Baus.
£60.72
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Krieg Und Kriegserinnerung Im Museum: Der Zweite
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£101.61
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Treasury - Kunstkammer - Musuem: Objects from the
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£999.99
Austrian Academy of Sciences Press Gedenken Und (K)Ein Ende?: Das
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£94.05
Gebruder Mann Verlag Der Traum Vom Museum: Die Kunstkammer Im Berliner
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£46.55
Gebruder Mann Verlag Die Kunst Der Lutherischen Kirchen Im 16.
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£97.85
Gebruder Mann Verlag Neue Blocke Fur Die Innenstadt: Die Iba '87 in
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£999.99
Gebruder Mann Verlag Kultur Unterwegs: Relevanz Einer Instanz:
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£51.68
Gebruder Mann Verlag Von Italien Nach Preussen: Die Entstehung Der
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£158.00
Gebruder Mann Verlag Jahrbuch Der Berliner Museen: 62. Band (2021)
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£999.99
Schnell & Steiner Die Dresdner Frauenkirche: Jahrbuch Zu Ihrer
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£42.36
Schwabe Museen ALS Orte Geschichtspolitischer
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£999.99
Universitatsverlag Winter The Museal Turn
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£54.00
V&R unipress GmbH Nicht nur Raubkunst!: Sensible Dinge in Museen
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£64.33
Dr Ludwig Reichert Geschichte Des Archaologischen Museums Der
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Sandstein Kommunikation GmbH Co-Creation Labs: Illuminating Guests, Artists
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£32.00
Sandstein Verlag Museen Und Gedenkstatten Zur Erinnerung an Die
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£39.90
Sandstein Verlag Museums and Monuments to the Memory of the
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£31.50
Sandstein Verlag Parerga Und Paratexte / Steine Rahmen, Tiere
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£41.25
Sternberg Press Logic of the Collection
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£18.52
Sternberg Press Curating the Complex and the Open Strike
Book SynopsisAn analysis of the contexts in which curating takes place: why curate art these days and in the name of which interests?If we ask where the curating of art occurs these days--in which places, which kinds of place, and how--apparent answers immediately appear: everywhere, expanding as if to ubiquity. Yet at the same time, we sense, with fragile purpose. In this, his newest book, Terry Smith explores the contemporary contexts of curating, looking for less apparent answers. It will map the dimensions of the visual arts exhibitionary complex, including its dialectical dance between institutionalization and deinstitutionalization; the persistence of professional classifications of curatorship; the given and changing categories of art exhibitions; the increasing variety of curatorial styles; the underthinking about publics; and (undistracted by curationism) the changing roles of art making and exhibiting art within an exhibitory iconomy that is at once viral and consumptive. A mapping of this kind might help us towards some answers to the more important questions: why curate art these days and in the name of which interests?
£13.54
Sternberg Press Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The
Book SynopsisA massive anthology of texts, visual material, and research on TBA21's commissions and the foundation's vast collection of over 700 artworks.What survives after the artwork? asks curator and researcher Natasha Ginwala in one of the essays in Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary: The Commissions Book, a new and comprehensive publication by the art foundation Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary (TBA21), founded by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza in Vienna, Austria, in 2002. The artwork is not just the thing in itself, but also the metaphysical infrastructure and unfinished relationships that produce it, Ginwala writes. In that sense, this anthology of texts, visual material, and research on TBA21's commissions and the foundation's vast collection of over 700 artworks serves as vivid testimony to the processes and relationships that enabled them.In over 1,300 pages The Commissions Book engages with more than 100 works of art, proposing a speculative topography that organizes and weaves together sequences of potential narratives and interrogations along with close examinations of different works of art and a collective archive of images. The stories embedded in these works, as well as in TBA21 and TBA21-Academy's practice--an itinerant site of transdisciplinary research and cultural production engaging with the oceans--is a story of making new connections, or rather creating interconnections. Bringing together visual and written material from TBA21's commissioning practice and vast history of exhibitions and live events, The Commissions Book also goes beyond the foundation's archives to present new works and commissions by Cecilia Bengolea, Claudia Comte, SUPERFLEX, and Territorial Agency, amongst many others. New essays by Natasha Ginwala's and such transdisciplinary feminist thinkers as Astrida Neimanis and Eva Hayward transcend individual artistic positions and ask questions that lie at the core of TBA21's program.
£25.50
Sternberg Press Unannounced Voices: Curatorial Practice and
Book SynopsisAlternative forms of curatorial and institutional work suitable to our novel conditions, when the relationship between physical and online work must be revised.In our current era of global pandemic and violent political upheaval, the question must be asked: What is our future and whose voices will announce it? These can only be situated voices, each with its own body and space, formed through dialogue within their own communities and in reaction and resistance to dominant discourses. Museum director, curator, and writer Zdenka Badovinac argues that these situated voices of people, artworks, and exhibitions, rooted in the local, can bring incisive, productive change. The call of these voices, in rethinking art, curation, and institutions, is the subject of this powerful essay, the second volume of the series Thoughts on Curating, edited by Steven Henry Madoff.
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Sternberg Press Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools
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NIAS Press UNESCO in Southeast Asia: World Heritage Sites in
Book SynopsisSoutheast Asia's 36 UNESCO World Heritage Sites make a significant contribution to their respective country's national prestige and identity, international profile and tourism development plans. Yet, although much is known about some individual sites like Angkor and Borobudur, we know very little about all sites in comparative terms. This wide-ranging study explores how both cultural and natural sites are being managed, how they are coping with the conflicting pressures from the global, national and local levels, and points to best practices for their future conservation and development. Some 20 sites across seven countries in the region are examined and placed in a historical, political, economic, environmental and cultural context. The contributors also focus on the tensions that exist between the often competing interests, understandings and agendas of the various stakeholders involved in these globally important sites. Although the importance of World Heritage Sites carries their significance and influence beyond their borders in that they are part of national and international flows of people, capital, ideas, images and values, they are also defined, bounded and localized spaces within which there are encounters, exchanges and conflicts. The first volume to address issues raised by world heritage in Southeast Asia, it will be a key resource for academic researchers and for policy- and decision-makers in this field of studies. This volume on world heritage and tourism completes a trilogy of publications by Professor King on tourism-related issues. The two earlier volumes - Tourism in Southeast Asia: Challenges and New Directions (2009) and Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia (2010) - were jointly published by NIAS Press and the University of Hawai'i Press.
£999.99
Viella Editrice Vedere Per Credere: Il Racconto Museale
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£999.99
Edizioni Terra Santa Selected Works from the Collections of the Terra
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£94.88
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Museografia: Temi E Metodi Dell'allestimento
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£171.95
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Virtual Restoration 2: The Frescoes of the
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£175.75
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Cultura in Transito: Ricerca E Tecnologie Per Il
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£109.25
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Restauri a Pompei (1748-1860)
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£228.00
L'Erma Di Bretschneider La Gestione del Rischio Nel Settore Dei Beni
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£999.99
L'Erma Di Bretschneider Il Mercato Dell'arte E Le Case d'Asta:
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£182.99
