Museology and heritage studies Books
Gebruder Mann Verlag Kultur Unterwegs: Relevanz Einer Instanz:
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£51.93
Gebruder Mann Verlag Von Italien Nach Preussen: Die Entstehung Der
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£183.88
Gebruder Mann Verlag Jahrbuch Der Berliner Museen: 62. Band (2021)
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£172.90
Gebruder Mann Verlag Jahrbuch Der Berliner Museen: 63. Band (2022)
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£172.90
Schnell & Steiner Die Dresdner Frauenkirche: Jahrbuch Zu Ihrer
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£36.00
Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Authentisierung Im Museum: Ein Werkstatt-Bericht
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£33.25
Schwabe Museen ALS Orte Geschichtspolitischer
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£57.95
Universitatsverlag Winter The Museal Turn
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£51.30
Tectum Verlag Museen Auf Instagram: Museale Aussenkommunikation
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£40.19
Transcript Verlag Dancing Archives—Archive Dances: Exploring Dance
Book SynopsisThis book presents the first in-depth archival exploration of a lost history of dance as an extracurricular activity at Radcliffe College, the women's liberal arts college of Harvard University, during the first half of twentieth century. Using archival story-ing, an innovative methodology that brings the researcher's lived experience at the Radcliffe College Archives into the historical discourse, three archive stories were created. These vivid narratives thrive in the researcher's personal encounters with the surroundings of the archive and the interpretation and reading of what is to be found giving profound insights into what it means to walk in the footsteps of Radcliffe dance history.
£33.29
Transcript Verlag The Sounding Museum: Box of Treasures
Book SynopsisThe "Sounding Museum" fuses anthropology, acoustic ecology, soundscape composition, and trans-cultural communication inside 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, BC. The project mediates intercultural competence thorough the affective agency of sound. With the coeval "Session Musician's Approach", introduced and analysed in text, audio, and interactive form, it also bridges the gap between art, science, and education. With a foreword by Barry Truax. The box includes a book, 2 DVD and 1 CD.
£38.69
Transcript Verlag Contemporary Curating and Museum Education
Book SynopsisIn the context of critical museology, museums are questioning their social role, defining the museum as a site for knowledge exchange and participation in creating links between past and present. Museum education has evolved as a practice in its own right, questioning, expanding and transforming exhibitions and institutions. How does museum work change if we conceive of curating and education as an integrated practice? This question is addressed by international contributors from different types of museums. For anyone interested in the future of museums, it offers insights into the diversity of positions and experiences of translating the "grand designs" of museology into practice.
£38.24
Transcript Verlag Visiting the Visitor: An Enquiry Into the Visitor
Book SynopsisThe study of the museum visitor has undergone radical transformation. Each author here has asked unfamiliar questions and responded with fresh answers. Some of these questions involve the visitor's identity, what she brings to her museum experience. Can we gain entry into this experience? Does more technology really increase access to the objects themselves? Others probe the very nature of museum going and exhibition making, demanding that we reexamine the traditional exhibition to reposition the visitor and her meaning-making at the centre. The volume provokes imaginative research and encourages new conclusions.
£38.24
Transcript Verlag The Local Museum in the Global Village –
Book SynopsisIn remote areas of Europe, local history museums struggle to connect with the rapidly changing and increasingly diverse communities around them. Insa Müller asks how these museums can recast themselves to strengthen the links to their communities. Combining theoretical deliberations, empirical investigations of the case of two Norwegian islands and a museum experiment, she offers starting points for rethinking the local history museum, while at the same time providing suggestions for locally adapted museum practice.Table of ContentsPreface; Summary; Introduction: Local history museums in changing communities: Rethinking the local history museum; Inspiration from museum and memory studies; The Norwegian context; Historical consciousness among Hitra and Frøya's population and the local museum; Memory and history, historical culture, historical consciousness and the local museum; Historical consciousness among Hitra's and Frøya's population; An experiment in contemporary documentation; Documentation of labour immigrants' experiences and views of the local past and present; Concluding remarks: The local museum as facilitator of and partner in negotiations of local history, identity and belonging; Bibliography.
£38.24
Transcript Verlag Museums, Transculturality and the Nation State:
Book SynopsisWhile the nation-state gave rise to the advent of museums, its influence in times of transculturality and post-/decolonial studies appears to have vanished. But is this really the case? With case studies from various geo- and sociopolitical contexts from around the globe, the contributors investigate which roles the nation-state continues to play in museums, collections, and heritage. They answer the question to which degree the nation-state still determines practices of collection and circulation and its amount of power to shape contemporary narratives. The volume thus examines the contradictions at play when the necessary claim for transculturality meets the institutions of the nation-state. With contributions by Stanislas Spero Adotevi, Sebastián Eduardo Dávila, Natasha Ginwala, Monica Hanna, Rajkamal Kahlon, Suzana Milevska, Mirjam Shatanawi, Kavita Singh, Ruth Stamm, Andrea Witcomb.Table of ContentsIntroduction: Museum Narratives between Transculturality and the Nation-State; 'Come On Home'; Museums in Contemporary Educational and Cultural Systems [1971]; Remembering and Forgetting in the National Museums of South Asia; Repatriating Cultural Identity; Die Völker der Erde (People of the Earth); On the In-Betweenness of the Paintings of Jean Baptiste Vanmour (16711737) at the Rijksmuseum; Shameful Objects, Apologizing Subjects; Towards a Cosmopolitical Exhibition Practice; Visiting the Colección Poyón, or Indigeneity and the Nation-State in Guatemala; Contributors.
£36.54
Transcript Verlag The Corporate Art Index – Twenty–one Ways to Work
Book SynopsisArt is a prerequisite for the progress of society. Corporate Art Initiatives contribute to this progression. Based on extensive research, Viviane Mörmann presents 21 promising corporate art initiatives (CAIs). She introduces different types of art initiatives and provides a standardized scheme to evaluate them. This volume features CAIs from the classic corporate art space to the public art challenge, and the virtual museum. It draws attention to the subject of CAIs to broaden the reader's knowledge and to mediate access to current CAIs. The Corporate Art Index thus addresses art lovers, artists, curators, business and marketing professionals, architects and designers, art historians, art fair organizers and journalists.Table of ContentsAim; The Corporate Art Index What Is It All About?; Historical Reflexion; Screening of Corporate Art Initiatives; The Corporate Art Index Rating of the Corporate Art Initiatives (CAIs); Results of the Rating; The 21 Most Interesting CAIs; Art Space; Art Competition; Digital Art; Art Marketing; Have a Drink; Problem Reduction; Struggle for Objectivity; The Power of Art in CAIs; Bottom Line; Conclusions; Plan of Action; References.
£33.14
Transcript Verlag Doing Diversity in Museums and Heritage: A Berlin
Book SynopsisThe museum and heritage sector has been shaken by debates over how to address colonialism, migration, Islamophobia, LGBTI+ and multiple other forms of difference. This major multi-researcher ethnography of museums and heritage in Berlin provides new insight into how "diversity" is understood and put into action in museums and heritage. Exploring new initiatives and approaches, the book shows how these work - or do not - in practice. By doing so, it highlights ways forward - for research and action - for the future. The fieldwork locations on which this book is based include the Humboldt Forum, the Museum of Islamic Art, the Museum für Naturkunde, and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, as well as Berlin streets and protests.
£33.14
Transcript Verlag The Aftermaths of Participation: Outcomes and
Book SynopsisHow do participatory museum projects with forced migrants impact both the museum and the participants? Based on interviews with museum practitioners, mediators and project participants, Susanne Boersma brings together unique insights into museum work with forced migrants. She assesses projects in Germany, the Netherlands and the UK to illustrate how museums' (post)colonial infrastructures limit the potential of their increasingly social role. This study reveals the diverging objectives, experiences and outcomes of participatory projects, and finds ways in which these might be united in practice.
£28.89
Transcript Verlag Spaces of Commemoration and Communication: A
Book SynopsisIn times of resurgence of ultra-nationalistic and xenophobic tendencies across Europe, education and awareness-raising for all age groups about the history of the Holocaust are of paramount importance for agency and civil engagement. Stefan Sonvilla-Weiss examines commemorative culture and its transformation towards interactive and participatory experiences through a novel form of visitor engagement at the Mauthausen memorial visiting center. This unique space from an arts-based and media research project builds on human-centered design, as well as individual and collective experiences of contributing to a living memory culture.
£37.39
Transcript Verlag Spaces of Care - Confronting Colonial Afterlives
Book SynopsisAlarming environmental shifts and crises have raised public awareness and anxieties regarding the future of the planet. While planetary in scale, the negative effects of this global crisis are unequally distributed, affecting some of the already most fragile communities most intensely, thus contributing to rising global inequality. The pairing of environmental crises and a sense of inadequacy facing hitherto celebrated models of citizenry informs a current spirit-of-the-times. The contributors to this volume place ethnographic or world cultures museums at the centre of these debates - these museums have been embroiled in longstanding debates about their histories, collections, and practices in relation to the colonial past.
£37.39
ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian Schon Dealing with the Yugoslav Past: Exhibition
Book SynopsisThis fascinating book analyzes the socialist past as represented in the national history museums of the majority of the former Yugoslav states. While traveling to Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia, the study elucidates the strategies of constructing the national narratives that maintain and legitimize the particular vision of the common past. The cross-national comparison allows to extract the main tendencies in visual interpretation of the socialist past. The existence of the diverse opinions with the further possibility of displaying them in the public space has tremendous importance for the democratic development of the state and, consequently, the analysis of the exhibitions representing the socialist past in multiparadigmatic ways is the promising tool for the identification of both the memory politics in the region and the extent to which political actors are interfering in the given field.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Theoretical Foundations; Methodology & Research Design; Brief Historical Background of Yugoslav History; Empirical Part; General Conclusions; Discussions; List of References.
£20.79
V&R unipress GmbH Nicht nur Raubkunst!: Sensible Dinge in Museen
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£63.31
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Leidenschaftlich Für Die Kunst
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£29.75
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag From Poland with Love: Letters to Harald Szeemann
Book SynopsisOver the period of twelve months, between May 2017 and 2018, Polish-born curator and critic Anda Rottenberg wrote a series of fictitious letters to legendary curator and writer Harald Szeemann (1933-2005). In these pieces, Rottenberg analyses the art and nature of curating and reveals references and relations in the history of art. She questions female artistic positions both in the Eastern and Western Europe and so encourages new individual readings of them. Her letters express a unique rhetoric that take up questions and polemic judgements to amalgamate individual opinion and objective knowledge into a personal history. This is the first publication of the much acclaimed new Muzeum Susch, an initiative of the Polish entrepreneur and art collector Grazyna Kulczyk and her Art Stations Foundation CH.
£31.50
Arnoldsche Partners In Design: Alfred H. Barr Jr. und Philip
Book SynopsisAs the 1930s began, Alfred H. Barr Jr., founder of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and Philip Johnson, distinguished architect, brought the principles of the Bauhaus to America - even before exiles from Nazi Germany fully established the idea of architecture and furnishings as a functional whole in the United States. Barr's organisation of the museum reflected the departmental structure of the Bauhaus, elevating architecture, graphic design, utilitarian furniture design, industrial design, photography and film to be on an equal footing with painting and sculpture, and endorsing all to be recognised as art. Barr and Johnson curated exceptional exhibitions such as Modern Architecture, International Exhibition (1932) and Machine Art (1934) at MoMA and created modern interiors in private living quarters. In this book, comprehensive essays and series of photos trace how modernism found its way into the American cultural landscape. Text in German.
£33.60
Arnoldsche The Story of the Tekkieh Moaven: Kermanshah, Iran
Book SynopsisThe Tekkieh Moaven is a significant religious monument in Kermanshah and one of the most important national memorials in Iran. Following the building’s destruction in the early 20th century, it was rebuilt and furnished with exclusive tiles, the focal point of this publication. Since 1975, it has also been a popular museum visited by hundreds of thousands of people every year. The tiles illustrate the fascinating world of art in the Persian empire and Islamic era and are distinguished by colourful illustrations featuring floral, calligraphic, and also figurative motifs. Author Hadi Seif weaves the recollections of the ancient guardian Sojdehpur into his narratives, contributing valuable insights into the evolutionary history of these impressive tiles. This is the first major English-language publication dedicated to this outstanding cultural monument.
£31.50
Hauser & Wirth Beyond the Town - Conversations of Art and Land
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£28.50
Distanz Exposing Tears: Kontext
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£12.80
Dr Ludwig Reichert Geschichte Des Archaologischen Museums Der
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£139.65
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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£31.50
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
Sandstein Verlag Die Weimarer Museen: Ein Erinnerungskulturelles
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£21.60
Sternberg Press Spacing Philosophy: Lyotard and the Idea of the
Book SynopsisThe significance of Jean-François Lyotard's innovative 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux and the “curatorial turn” in critical theory.In 1985, the philosopher Jean-François Lyotard curated Les Immatériaux at Centre Georges Pompidou. Though widely misunderstood at the time, the exhibition marked a “curatorial turn” in critical theory. Through its experimental layout and hybrid presentation of objects, technologies, and ideas, this pioneering exploration of virtuality reflected on the exhibition as a medium of communication and anticipated a deeper engagement with immersive and digital space in both art and theory. In Spacing Philosophy, Daniel Birnbaum and Sven-Olov Wallenstein analyze the significance and logic of Lyotard's exhibition while contextualizing it in the history of exhibition practices, the philosophical tradition, and Lyotard's own work on aesthetics and phenomenology. Les Immatériaux can thus be seen as a culmination and materialization of a life's work as well as a primer for the many thought-exhibitions produced in the following decades.The significance of Jean-François Lyotard's innovative 1985 exhibition Les Immatériaux and the “curatorial turn” in critical theory.Forthcoming from the MIT Press
£16.00
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.
£10.45
Sternberg Press Artistic Ecologies: New Compasses and Tools
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£18.00
Hampp Verlag Management Practice Supporting Sustained
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£51.20
PIE Books Yokai Museum: The Art of Japanese Supernatural
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£22.49
River Books World Heritage Japan
Book SynopsisAuthor and photographer John Lander takes the magnificent UNESCO World Heritage sites of Japan as a starting point for exploring the country's architecture, history, customs and festivals. Lander, who has lived in Japan for 35 years, travelled to almost all the country's UNESCO sites: from well-known places like Mount Fuji to hidden temple gardens and hard-to-reach wild islands. This book also includes cultural elements listed as intangible world heritage, providing intimate portraits of Japanese cuisine, crafts and performance arts. With a lyrical preface by Pico Iyer and illustrated with over 180 full-colour photographs, World Heritage Japan is Lander's personal photographic tribute to a diverse and ancient culture - a stunning visual journey across Japan.
£25.46
American Alliance of Museums National Standards and Best Practices for U.S.
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£52.11
Agam Kala Prakashan Scientific Aspect of Hertiage Study
Book SynopsisThe author, an internationally known expert on conservation and preservation of antiquities, guides the readers for saving our invaluable cultural heritage, Various dating techniques of relative and absolute dating have also been discussed. It is essential reading for archaeological chemists and museum curators.
£67.50
Bharatiya Kala Prakashan Hemakuta: C.T.M. Kotraiah Feliciation Volume:
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£119.99
JAS Arqueologia Paisaje y patrimonio: Un mismo destino a
Book SynopsisEste libro tiene su origen en un seminario impartido en la Universidad de Yucatán (Mérida), México, sobre gestión del patrimonio y turismo, a invitación del arqueólogo Josep Ligorred. Un par de años más tarde el profesor de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid Gonzalo Ruiz Zapatero me sugirió convertir en libro el trabajo que continuaba aquellas reflexiones, encauzado ahora bajo la denominación de "Paisaje y patrimonio", que el editor Jaime Almansa ha aceptado de publicar en su colección sobre Arqueología. A todos ellos agradezco la parte que les corresponde para que esta propuesta pueda llegar a un público más amplio.
£13.00
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