Museology and heritage studies Books
Rizzoli International Publications The Louvre
Book SynopsisExperience the Louvre's majestic halls, grand galleries, and stunning artworks in this exquisite visit to the world-renowned museum---highlighting beloved works of art alongside hidden gems, all situated in the palace's stunning architectural spaces.Trade Review"It’s not only Europe’s greatest museum; the Louvre is also a palace, upon which France’s kings, revolutionaries, emperors and presidents have projected visions of power and nationhood. Visit without the crowds or the jet lag with this sumptuous volume, whose 600 pages let you scrutinize the woodwork of Henri II’s bedroom, the gold of Louis XIV’s Galerie d’Apollon, the glass of I.M. Pei’s pyramid. The pleasure of this book comes from narrating the Louvre’s history as residence and museum together, and photographing the whole collection in situ." — NEW YORK TIMES, Best Art Books of 2020"...with sumptuous full-color photographs by Gérard Rondeau that can be almost as alluring as the art pictured." —WALL STREET JOURNAL "With trips to Paris on the shelf indefinitely, the next best thing might just be Rizzoli’s new doorstop The Louvre, a history of and illustrated guide to the museum’s collections. Through hundreds of high-quality photographs, the book tells the story of the building and its holdings, all wrapped in an attractive hardback package, with a delightful bound ribbon bookmark." —NEW CRITERION "Holiday Gift Guide/Best Art Books 2020: Visit without the crowds or the jet lag with this sumptuous volume, whose 600 pages let you scrutinize the woodwork of Henri II’s bedroom, the gold of Louis XIV’s Galerie d’Apollon, the glass of I.M. Pei’s pyramid. The pleasure of this book comes from narrating the Louvre’s history as residence and museum together, and photographing the whole collection in situ." —NEW YORK TIMES
£68.00
University of Illinois Press African Art Reframed Reflections and Dialogues on
Book SynopsisAn essential guide to building new exchanges and connections in the dynamic worlds of African and global art. Read to explore the reframing of African art through case studies of museums and galleries in the United States, Europe, and Africa.Trade Review"At just under 400 pages, this splendid and impressively researched book has eight chapters that divide thematically into three parts. . . . The main themes centre around artworks, artists, museum exhibits and others, while interviews with artists and curators close each chapter." --Theory, Culture, and Society"The authors' enthusiasm for their analytical approach is admirable . . . very timely and insightful work." --Ethnic and Racial Studies"Jules-Rosette and Osborne succeed in their intention to illustrate a historical reconstituting of public perception of the African object--from ethnographic curiosity, to influence on other artistic movements, to embrace of the gamut of creative expression." --Choice"African Art Reframed is a qualitative study of the circulation and exhibition of African art in ethnographic and art museums and galleries in Europe, Africa, and the United States. Drawing on years of ethnographic observations, interviews with museum professionals and artists, and extensive archival and visual materials such as museum catalogs, Jules-Rosette and Osborn examine how African art is created, framed, and reframed in museums across three continents." --Symbolic Interaction”An important intervention featuring new approaches to 'unmixing' in the exhibitionary complex of African and African American Art. It features interviews with French and US-based curators and museum directors engaged in emerging contexts and legacies of ethnographic display.”—Peter J. Bloom, author of French Colonial Documentary: Mythologies of Humanitarianism"African Art Reframed is a masterwork that interweaves theoretical innovations and critical analyses of the power dynamics in museum displays of African art." --Journal of African American History”This book is nothing less than a major breakthrough in museum studies. It is the first to systematically connect museum display practice to the recalibration of 'ethnic identity' that happens after colonialism. Its focus is on the global display of art and crafts from Africa and the African diaspora. But it is essential reading for anyone who wonders about what we want to hear from our forebears as we compel them to speak from behind glass, standing on plinths, and hanging on walls.”—Dean MacCannell, author of The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure ClassTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword by Simon Njami Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reframing African Art PART I: ENTERING MUSEUMS AT THE THRESHOLD CHAPTER 1. Lost and Found: Postcolonial Reflections on Colonial Museums CHAPTER 2. Revisiting the Storeroom: Collections and Cultural Surplus CHAPTER 3. Reaching Out: Museums, Audiences, and the Public Sphere PART II: DIALOGUES ON MUSEUM PRACTICES AND ART WORLDS CHAPTER 4. Museums Speak Out: Curators' Dialogues CHAPTER 5. Agitating African Art: Artists' Voices and Audience Responses PART III: UNMIXING AFRICAN ART AND REMIXING THE RESULTS CHAPTER 6. The Theory and Method of Unmixing CHAPTER 7. Remixing the Results and Looking Ahead CHAPTER 8. Personal Journeys and Reflections on African Art Chronology Notes Bibliography Index
£17.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd The Science For Conservators Series
Book SynopsisFor more than ten years, the Science for Conservators series has been the key basic texts for conservators throughout the world. Scientific concepts are basic ot the conservation of artefacts of every type, yet many conservators have little or no scientific training. These introductory volumes provide non-scientists with the essential theoretical background to their work.Table of ContentsChapter One The Nature of Dirt Chapter Two Mechanical Cleaning Chapter Three Liquids and Solutions Chapter Four Organic Solutions Chapter Five Cleaning With Water Chapter Six Water, Acidity and Alkalinity Chapter Seven Cleaning By Chemical Reaction
£43.99
Archaeopress Visual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock
Book SynopsisVisual Culture, Heritage and Identity: Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present sets out a fresh perspective on rock art by considering how ancient images function in the present. In recent decades, archaeological approaches to rock paintings and engravings have significantly advanced our understanding of rock art in regional and global terms. On the other hand, however, little research has been done on contemporary uses of rock art. How does ancient rock art heritage influence contemporary cultural phenomena? And how do past images function in the present, especially in contemporary art and other media? In the past, archaeologists usually concentrated more on reconstructing the semantic and social contexts of the ancient images. This volume, on the other hand, focuses on how this ancient heritage is recognised and reified in the modern world, and how this art stimulates contemporary processes of cultural identity-making. The authors, who are based all over the world, off er attractive and compelling case studies situated in diverse cultural and geographical contexts.Trade Review'This is a fascinating book that breathes new life into a subject dominated so long by traditional exegetic interpretations of prehistoric rock art which have achieved little collective consensus, although it is fair to say they have advanced our understanding. It is illustrated with beautiful and vibrant images throughout, and its anthropological/ethnoarchaeological approach is highly commended.'—Mark Merrony (2021): ANTIQVVS, Volume 3, Issue 4'The editors are to be congratulated on promoting a relatively new concept in rock art research, namely bridging the philosophical gap between ancient and modern art forms, using anthropology and ethnography to legitimise the past and the way it interacts with the present. The publishers, Archaeopress, should also receive praise for producing such a handsome and colourful publication that truly reflects the beauty and rhetoric of modern (rock) art-making.' – George Nash (2022): Current World Archaeology #111Table of ContentsA Brief Note about the Editors ; Using Rock Art to Reconnect Past and Present: An Introduction – Andrzej Rozwadowski and Jamie Hampson ; Indigenous Art in New Contexts: Inspiration or Appropriation? – Jamie Hampson and Rory Weaver ; The Cave of Altamira and Modern Artistic Creation – Pilar Fatás Monforte ; Joane Cardinal–Schubert: Ancient Contemporary – Alisdair MacRae ; Face to Face with Ancestors: Indigenous Codes in the Contemporary Art of Siberia – Andrzej Rozwadowski and Magdalena Boniec ; Contemporary Views on Rock Art from Within the Frame: Indigenous Cultural Continuity and Artistic Engagement with Rock Art – Marisa Giorgi and Dale Harding ; PalimpsGestures: Rock Art and the Recreation of Body Expression – Lina do Carmo ; In the Name of the Ancestors: Repainted Identities and Land Memories – Laura Teresa Tenti ; Muraycoko Wuyta’a Be Surabudodot / Ibararakat: Rock Art and Territorialization in Contemporary Indigenous Amazonia – the Case of the Munduruku People from the Tapajos River – Jairo Saw Munduruku, Eliano Kirixi Munduruku and Raoni Valle ; Appropriation, Re-Appropriation, Reclamation: The Re-Use of New Zealand’s Most Renowned Māori Rock Art – Gerard O’Regan [Open Access: Download]; Reproduction, Simulation and the Hyperreal: A Case Study of ‘Lascaux III’ 2015–2017 – Robert J. Wallis
£28.50
Open University Press Museums Media and Cultural Theory
Book SynopsisMuseums can work to reproduce ideologies and confirm the existing order of things, or as instruments of social reform. Yet objects in museums can exceed their designated roles as documents or specimens. In this wideranging and original book, Michelle Henning explores how historical and contemporary museums and exhibitions restage the relationship between people and material things. In doing so, they become important sites for the development of new forms of experience, memory and knowledge. Henning reveals how museums can be theorised as a form of media. She discusses both historical and contemporary examples, from cabinets of curiosity, through the avant-garde exhibition design of Lissitzy and Bayer; the experimental museums of Paul Otlet and Otto Neurath; to science centres; immersive and virtual museums; and major developments such as Guggenheim Bilbao, Tate Modern in London and the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C. Museums, Media and Cultural TheoryTable of ContentsSeries Editor's forewordIntroductionObjectDisplayMedia PublicArchive
£29.44
Museum of New Mexico Press Folk Art Journey Florence D Bartlett the Museum
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Te Papa Press The Cook Voyages Encounters
Book SynopsisAlmost 250 years after James Cook first sighted Aotearoa in October 1769, worldwide interest in all aspects of his exploration of the Pacific endures. In this handsome book, widely respected Pacific scholar Janet Davidson details the collection of Māori, Pacific and Native American objects associated with Cook’s voyages held at Te Papa.Trade Review'... beautifully illustrated with physical artefacts generally attributed to the three voyages... The variety of bait hooks is particularly fascinating... truly superb ...' - Otago Daily Times, 16 November 2020; author feature on RNZ Standing Room Only, 27 October 2020; illustrated feature in NZ Listener, October 26 2020.Table of Contents06 Foreword 11 Introduction 35 The voyages 127 The curiosities 243 Catalogue 264 The Carter collection 265 About the author 266 Acknowledgements 267 Select bibliography 268 Notes 272 Index
£42.50
Te Papa Press 100 Natural History Treasures of Te Papa 100
Book SynopsisIn this fascinating book, Te Papa’s science team showcases 100 objects that demonstrate the breadth and depth of Te Papa’s enormous collection. The objects housed by the museum range from fossilised bones of the extinct Haast’s eagle and specimens collected on Cook’s first voyage to deep-sea-dwelling fishes and a plethora of insects.Trade Review'... an entertaining selection ... The items are wonderful in their rarity and diversity, and the descriptions are lucid and informative' - North & South; '100 Natural History Treasures is effortlessly informative ... the book offers proof of the research value of collections put together over long periods of time ...' - New Zealand Geographic; photo feature in New Zealand review of Books.Table of ContentsIntroduction 6 100 Natural History Treasures A-B Objects 001-013 12 C-E Objects 014-026 44 F-G Objects 027-040 74 H-M Objects 041-058 106 N-P Objects 059-073 146 R-S Objects 074-087 180 T-Z Objects 088-100 212 The collectors 242 The collection and the field 248 Authors 262 Index 267
£29.74
Te Papa Press Hei Taonga ma nga Uri Whakatipu
Book SynopsisA landmark book about four remarkable museum expeditions that contributed to a recovery of Maori society. This beautifully illustrated book tells the story of the expeditions and details the innovative experiments of Maori leaders in the latter part of the twentieth century.Trade Review“ … a volume that is as much a treasure as the taonga it records.” Kete Books 2021Table of ContentsHei Wahi Ake | Wayne Ngata Page 8 Mihi | Arapata Hakiwai Page 10 Introduction | Anne Salmond, Conal McCarthy, Amiria Salmon Page 12 Chapter 1: Kia Ora Te Hui Aroha | Monty Soutar Page 76 Chapter 2: E Tama! E Te Ariki! Haere Mai! | Anne Salmond, James Schuster, Billie Lythberg Page 116 A Pouhaki for the Prince | James Schuster Page 146 Chapter 3: Toia Mai! Te Taonga! | Anne Salmond Page 154 Like He's Sitting Here and Talking | John Niko Maihi Page 188 My Tupuna are revealing themselves | Sandra Kahu Nepia Page 192 Where There Was an Astronomer There's a Pohutukawa | Te Wheturere Poope Gray Page 194 The Knowledge Inside the Words | Te Aroha McDonnell Page 196 Chapter 4: Oh Machine, Speak On, Speak On | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg Page 200 Chapter 5: The Eye of the Film | Natalie Robertson Page 218 Chapter 6: Alive with Rhythmic Force | Anne Salmond, Billie Lythberg, Conal McCarthy Page 278 Appendices Page 304 Reconnecting Taonga | Billie Lythberg The Terminology of Whakapapa | Apirana Ngata, Wayne Ngata Relationship Terms | Apirana Ngata Notes Glossary Bibliography Image Credits About the Authors Acknowledgements Index
£46.39
Nova Science Publishers Inc Role of Museums & Libraries in Strengthening
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£42.39
Goose Lane Editions Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland
Book SynopsisWinner, APMA Best Atlantic-Published Book Award and The Critical Eye AwardHonourable Mention, Canadian Museums Association’s Outstanding Achievement in ResearchIn Future Possible, Mireille Eagan and other writers and artists navigate the tangled histories and cultures of Newfoundland and Labrador to investigate the visual output and to write the narrative that it has created. The result is an ambitious volume, arising from a two-part exhibition of the same name at The Rooms, that provides a multi-vocal, multi-faceted history spanning pre- and post-Confederation Newfoundland.Lavishly illustrated with reproductions of original works and installation views, Future Possible features essays by curators and artists on topics such as pre-Confederation art; contemporary art, craft, and Indigenous culture; and outsider and folk art. This intriguing volume places artifacts from the province’s history and work by iconic Newfoundland and Labrador artists such as Gerald Squires and Mary Pratt in conversation with works by contemporary artists like Jordan Bennett and Kym Greeley. Together they explore how history is told and retold through objects and images and how these objects and images, and the power structures that preserve them, define an understanding of place.Contributions from Mireille Eagan, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Andy Jones, Heather Igloliorte, Jeff Webb, Darryn Doull, Bushra Junaid, Cory Thorne, Kelley Totten, Patricia Grattan, Gerard Curtis, Caroline Stone, Craig Francis Power, Christopher Pratt, Logan MacDonald, Lisa Moore, Eva Crocker, Andria Hickey, and a foreword by Anne Chafe.Trade Review“Future Possible is a hefty and calibrated trove of celebrated, obscure, popular, rare, iconographic and across-the-board-astonishing visual art.” -- Joan Sullivan * The Chronicle Herald *“Future Possible: An Art History of Newfoundland and Labrador, a handsome and expansive book, dodges any attempt at a defining narrative though the expedient of inviting numerous tellers to recount their views on the histories of art in Newfoundland and Labrador.” -- Ray Cronin * Border Crossings *
£39.94
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past
Book SynopsisWhat is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When the Victorians began to employ the term in something approaching the modern sense, they applied it to cathedrals, castles, villages and certain landscapes. Since then a multiplicity of heritage labels have arisen, cultural and commercial, tangible and intangible – for just as every era has its notion of heritage, so does every social group, and every generation. In Heritage, James Stourton focuses on elements of our cultural and natural environment that have been deliberately preserved: the British countryside and national parks, buildings such as Blenheim Palace and Tattershall Castle, and the works of art inside them. He charts two heroic periods of conservation – the 1880s and the 1960s – and considers whether threats of wealth, rampant development and complacency are similar in the present day. Heritage is both a story of crisis and profound change in public perception, and one of hope and regeneration.Trade ReviewA fascinating, erudite, engaging — and much needed — book. * Neil MacGregor *Compelling and thought-provoking, this book not only explores how Britain's rich and diverse heritage has been conserved (and in some cases destroyed) in the past, but offers a ray of hope for its future -- Tracy Borman[A] huge, energetic and tightly written tome on the two-and-half-century history of conservation battles in our homeland... A masterful, dynamic and extremely readable survey of one the major issues of our times. Or all times * Literary Review *It not only covers the conservation and protection of our buildings and landscapes, but also the wider cultural aspects * This England *PRAISE FOR JAMES STOURTON: 'Richly detailed, colourful and astute and it moves at a cracking pace... A resplendent biography' The Sunday Times. 'The deft weaving of architectural, social and contemporary history will reveal unexpected pleasures' Art Quarterly. 'This lavishly illustrated compendium suggests that the age of elegance endures' Mail on Sunday. 'Wonderfully learned, gossipy and instructive... The historical research is formidable... Witty, informative and endlessly fascinating' * Literary Review *
£38.00
Te Papa Press Museums and Maori: Heritage Professionals,
Book SynopsisThis ground-breaking book explores the revolution thats transformed New Zealand museums in recent decades, and is influencing how museums worldwide care for indigenous objects. Drawing on practical examples and interviews with professionals from all kinds of institutions, Dr Conal McCarthy lifts the lid on current practice. How do museum professionals deal with the indigenous objects in their care from day to day? How do they engage with tribal communities? How do they meet the needs of visitors, as well as these communities? The first critical study of its kind, Museums and Māori is an indispensible resource for professionals, students, academics, and museum supporters.Trade Review"Using a theoretical perspective grounded in museum practice, McCarthy masterfully brings the experiences of both museum professionals and Māori communities together over the past three decades and discusses the successes, pitfalls and frustrations posed by the social and ethnic tensions that exist in New Zealand despite the governments attempts at 'biculturalism' This case study of museums and Māori could fit any country where Europeans invaded and colonized indigenous peoples. This book is required reading for museum professionals currently working in museums that hold and exhibit indigenous collections and for anyone planning to become a museum professional. I would also recommend this to anyone studying identity politics, the history of colonization and de-colonization, and the advancements by indigenous peoples throughout the world who are engaging in the process of self-determination.' Shelby Tisdale, PhD, Director Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, Santa Fe"Table of ContentsHe Mihi -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Museums and indigenous people -- Part one: From monoculturalism to biculturalism -- 1 Before Te Maori -- 2 The Te Maori exhibition -- 3 After Te Maori -- Part two: Biculturalism in practice -- 4 Into a new century -- 5 Reforming museology at Te Papa -- 6 Evolving museum practice -- Part three: Beyond biculturalism? -- 'A new net goes fishing' -- 8 Biculturalism and its discontents.
£43.19
Splendid Media Group (UK) Limited The Reservation
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£14.39
Blue Dome Press Museum of Turkish & Islamic Arts: Thirteen
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£42.49
Otago University Press Te Papa to Berlin: The making of two museums
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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.
£35.99
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.
£35.99
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.
£999.99
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.
£31.19
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Museum Tusculanum Press Chachapoya Textiles: The Laguna de los Cndores
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Nationalmuseet National Museums in a Globalised World: A
Book SynopsisThe role of museums as mediators is assuming central importance around the world as museums react much more intensely to societal needs than they did in the past. To tackle history and world cultures in this way rises constructive questions regarding one''s own identity and leads to a better understanding of the present in all its complexity and thus makes it possible to build a more solid future. Museums have gradually come to act in part as society''s memory, and through their educational efforts they contribute to the sustainable development of the world. The conference, The National Museums in a Globalised World address the question of national museums through international dialogue and exemplifies how the museum world has become internationalised. Modern Museums are global players in the cultural sector and cross-cultural co-operation is of growing importance.
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University Press of Southern Denmark Icons of Longevity: Luxdorph's Eighteenth Century
Book SynopsisLuxdorph''s collection has a triple source value in terms of the history of art, the history of civilisation and the history of science. On this background, both reconstruction and the availability of the collection hold specific contemporary and general importance for the illustration of very old men and women, the development of research on aging and the associated socio-cultural topics. Moreover, the collection represents an encyclopedic interest, the passion to collect and the origin of science-orientated collections, as they became characteristic in 18th century Europe.
£999.99
Edizioni Musei Vaticani The Conservation of the Vatican Museums: A Ten
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£40.38
Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Gandhi Bhawan
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£19.00
KIT Publishers Africa at the Tropenmuseum
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£31.19
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Museums of Qatar
Book SynopsisJoin Ahmed, along with his friends, Nasser, and Aisha, as they take a tour around the most famous museums in Qatar. The perfect pre-reader book for tiny tots looking to explore the wonderful world of museums in Qatar.
£7.46
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press Museums of Qatar
Book SynopsisJoin Ahmed, along with his friends, Nasser, and Aisha, as they take a tour around the most famous museums in Qatar. The perfect pre-reader book for tiny tots looking to explore the wonderful world of museums in Qatar.
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Palgrave Macmillan Mediating Memory in the Museum
Book SynopsisList of Figures Glossary Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART I: MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEDIUM 1. A New Type of Museum? 2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis 3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? 4. Media Frameworks of Remembering 5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing' 6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum 7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites PART II: THE DEATHS OF OTHERS: REPRESENTING TRAUMA IN WAR MUSEUMS 8. Sites of Trauma 9. Icons of Trauma PART III: SCREEN MEMORIES AND THE 'MOVING' IMAGE: EMPATHY AND PROJECTION IN ISM, LIVERPOOL, AND IWM NORTH, MANCHESTER 10. The Politics of Empathy 11. Testimonial Video Installation 12. Middle Passage Installation 13. The Big Picture in IWM North 14. Guilt, Grief and Empathy PART IV: THE PARADOXES OF NOSTALGIA IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE SITES 15. (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street 17. ITrade Review“Silke Arnold-de Simine’s book is a tour de force that introduces readers to a variety of new museums and heritage sites across Europe … When the reader finishes reading this intriguing and moving book, the first thing he or she wants to do is rush out and visit those new museums.” (Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, Vol. 2 (3-4), March, 2016)“Arnold-de Simine provides a very useful starting point for those wading into the research area situated between memory studies and museum studies. In making clear distinctions between authentic objects, representational displays, video testimony, and memory texts within her analysis of the mediated exhibits, she provides a nuanced understanding of the differences between museums, memorials, remembrance, and the spatial reenactment of trauma. Her synthesis of concepts from the various fields associated with the flourishing of “spaces of memory” will prove especially useful for anyone new to this burgeoning field.” (Amy Freier, Memory Studies, 2015, Vol. 8(3), p.379–382)"This book is a welcome and extremely useful contribution to the subject of memory studies. I suspect it will reinvigorate the field in some interesting ways and may even form the core of a new, much-needed round of cross-disciplinary research." (Journal of Contemporary European Studies, 2014)Table of ContentsList of Figures Glossary Acknowledgments Introduction 1 PART I: MUSEUM, MEMORY, MEDIUM 1. A New Type of Museum? 2. Memory Boom, Memory Wars and Memory Crisis 3. Is There Such a Thing as 'Collective Memory'? 4. Media Frameworks of Remembering 5. Difficult Pasts, Vicarious Trauma: The Concept of 'Secondary Witnessing' 6. Empathy and its Limits in the Museum 7. Nostalgia and Post-Nostalgia in Heritage Sites PART II: THE DEATHS OF OTHERS: REPRESENTING TRAUMA IN WAR MUSEUMS 8. Sites of Trauma 9. Icons of Trauma PART III: SCREEN MEMORIES AND THE 'MOVING' IMAGE: EMPATHY AND PROJECTION IN ISM, LIVERPOOL, AND IWM NORTH, MANCHESTER 10. The Politics of Empathy 11. Testimonial Video Installation 12. Middle Passage Installation 13. The Big Picture in IWM North 14. Guilt, Grief and Empathy PART IV: THE PARADOXES OF NOSTALGIA IN MUSEUMS AND HERITAGE SITES 15. (Post-)Nostalgia for the Museum? The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford 16. The Ghosts of Spitalfields: 18 Folgate Street and 19 Princelet Street 17. Intangible Heritage, Place and Community: Écomusée d'Alsace 18. Ostalgie – Nostalgia for GDR Everyday Culture? The GDR in the Museum PART V: UNCANNY OBJECTS, UNCANNY TECHNOLOGIES 19. Phantasmagoria and its Spectres in the Museum Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Yale University Press Reinventing Africa Museums Material Culture Popular Imagination in Late Victorian Edwardian England
Book SynopsisBritish colonial expansion led to the display of many valuable African artifacts in Britain. This analysis covers the ways in which African peoples and their material culture were represented, the justifications for imperial expansion; and the effects this had on racial stereotyping.Table of ContentsMaterial culture at the crossroads of knowledge - the case of the Benin "bronzes"; voices in the wilderness - critics of empire; aesthetic pleasure and institutional power; the spectacle of empire 1 - expansionism and philanthropy at the "Stanley and the African" exhibition; the spectacle of empire 2 - exhibitionary narratives; temples of empire - the museum and its publics; containing the continent - ethnographies on display; "For God and For England" - missionary contributions to an image of Africa; national unity and racial and ethnic identities - the Franco-British exhibition of 1908; conclusion; epilogue - inventing the "Post-Colonial".
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MW - Rutgers University Press Understanding the Arts and Creative Sector in the United States
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