Museology and heritage studies Books
Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag Leidenschaftlich Für Die Kunst
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£29.75
Hauser & Wirth Beyond the Town - Conversations of Art and Land
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£28.50
BIS Publishers B.V. A Spectator is an Artist Too: How we Look at Art,
Book SynopsisIs there anything more entertaining, inspiring and instructive than observing art? Yes, it is watching the people interacting with this art. This book may forever change your approach to art as it urges you to always consider both the work and the response. Because ultimately artists create, but we – the audience – complete the picture.A Spectator is an Artist Too is a visual essay about human behaviour around art: what happens when we are confronted with something immensely beautiful, challenging, or puzzling? Art historians only study objects, but how these objects are received is also worthy of our attention.The book also captures how art museums are changing, as they draw increasingly diverse audiences. The way the museum visitors responds to art is becoming more casual and creative – but also more swift or even banal. This shift is increased by a whole new breed of Instagram-friendly 'museums' worldwide, attracting experience-hungry visitors with immersive exhibitions defined by their Instagrammability.
£14.24
MER Paper Kunsthalle Conversation Piece: Collection Mu.Zee Ostend.
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£14.95
Valiz The Transhistorical Museum: Mapping the Field
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£23.75
The University of Chicago Press Sacred Relics Pieces of the Past in
Book SynopsisA piece of Plymouth Rock. A lock of George Washington's hair. Wood from the cabin where Abraham Lincoln was born. Kept in museum collections across the US, such objects are the touchstones of our popular engagement with history. This book explores the history of private collections of items like these, illuminating how Americans view the past.Trade Review"Teresa Barnett is interested in the survival of public things and personal and what they meant to people. Drawing selectively but constructively upon the evidence, episodes, and theories, Sacred Relics is a very sophisticated and polished piece of work, offering the reader a clear sense of change over time in the realm of reliquaries and their keepers. There is no single work like it in US historiography. It will be a must-read in the fields of cultural, intellectual, and social history." (Michael Kammen, Cornell University)"
£35.15
The University of Chicago Press The Museum on the Roof of the World Art Politics
Book SynopsisFor millions of people around the world, Tibet is a domain of undisturbed tradition, the Dalai Lama a spiritual guide. This book addresses the question of who has the right to represent Tibet in museums and beyond.
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits
Book SynopsisTrade Review"This powerful book will be of particular importance to those working in museum and tribal settings, but is highly appropriate for anyone interested in cultural heritage and the legal efforts to manage claims for Native patrimony. Essential."--Choice "Colwell ably and sensitively tells the often conflict-ridden story of how and why museums in the US relinquished their hold over this material. . . . Colwell finds himself squarely in the middle of each quandary: a practising anthropologist who works alongside Native Americans every day and is sensitive to their cultural dynamics. Colwell's account favours the Native American perspective--a sensible approach for a book aimed at scientifically literate readers who may lean the other way. Readers will come away with a deeper appreciation of Native American cultural imperatives and the complexity of the situation."--New Scientist "A careful and intelligent chronicle of the battle over Indian artifacts and the study of Indian culture."--Wall Street Journal "Colwell, senior curator of anthropology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, explores the fraught project of repatriating Native American sacred objects in this moving and thoughtful work. . . . Colwell's book raises provocative questions about who owns the past, and is surely an important work for curators--or anyone--interested in America's treatment of its cultural legacy."--Publishers Weekly "Without ever descending into sensationalistic tones, the author exposes delicate facts about massacres, beliefs, desecrations, and illegal activities, deploying evidence with a measured distance that is difficult to argue against. Native American voices are given plenty of space to support their cases. They emerge as strong and determined and this is what the author wants us to perceive as a way to sensitise the public to the deep ethical implications that these, like many other cases, present us with. . . [Colwell] explicitly make[s] the theme of objects' agency and personhood the core of [his] most poignant arguments about repatriation, ethics, and conservation."--Transmotion "In this beautifully written meditation on the vexed relationship between museums and Native American communities, Colwell reveals as never before the human dimensions of our recent struggles over repatriation. Important, necessary reading for all those who grapple with the essential question of how best to respect and honor the past."--Karl Jacoby, author of Shadows at Dawn: An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits breaks new ground. Colwell's dual roles of museum curator and human rights advocate offers a narrative of personal growth and professional practice that couples a humanist's sensitivities with a historian's insistence on primary documentary sources. The resulting breath of fresh air contributes mightily to still-controversial conversations about American reburial and repatriation. The message sounds loud and clear: Twenty-first century museums can indeed stand tall in addressing their own complex histories. Why do some still feel obliged to cover up past performance, to lock out qualified researchers from their archives and to sugar-coat their past in the hopes that nobody will notice?" --David H. Thomas, author of Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity "A lightly written, insider's account of the battle over human remains and objects in museums. . . . As this book shows, the fight to reclaim Native America's culture has been waged, in significant parts, by professionals such as Colwell. His is indeed an insider's account--just not from the sidelines. He too has been on the battlefield." --Spectator "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits uses the story of one museum to show how Native American symbols of identity and ceremony and ancestral bones were initially appropriated as objects of cultural patrimony, but recently have become part of a complicated struggle of ownership. As Colwell profoundly shows, the emotional price paid by everyone involved--Native American, archaeologist, and museum curator--is never small." --Larry J. Zimmerman, author of The Sacred Wisdom of the Native Americans "Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits is a sobering peek into the controversy that surrounds tribal artifacts and human remains found in museums throughout the United States. His eloquent narration details several unique cases of repatriation. . . . Colwell has a unique perspective. He provides the reader with a firsthand look at the repatriation process, sympathetically including tribal perspectives--something that few museum directors have sought to do when writing on this subject in the past."--Science
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Metropolitan Museum Journal 2020 Volume 55 Volume
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsBailey Barnard, "Domesticated Partners: A New Analysis of a Sumerian Vessel Supported by Two Sheep" James Gill, "Insights on an Old Collection: Ptolemaic Period Pottery from Hibis (Kharga Oasis) in the Met" Michelle C. Wang, Xin Wen, and Susan Whitfield, "Buddhism and Silk: Reassessing a Painted Banner from Medieval Central Asia in the Met" Marjorie Shelley, "Joris Hoefnagel’s Insects: A Renaissance Deception" Daniel Wheeldon, “The Tastengitarre: A Romantic Guitar with Keys in the Met” Amy Werbel, "John Haberle's A Bachelor's Drawer (ca. 1894): Censorship, Geologic Time, and Truth in America" Doug Eklund, “'The Toughest, Meanest Art I Was Making': Ed Ruscha’s Books"
£41.80
The University of Chicago Press Ruling Culture
Book SynopsisThrough much of its history, Italy was Europe's heart of the arts, an artistic playground for foreign elites and powers who bought, sold, and sometimes plundered countless artworks and antiquities. This loss of artifacts looted by other nations once put Italy at an economic and political disadvantage compared with northern European states. Now, more than any other country, Italy asserts control over its cultural heritage through a famously effective art-crime squad that has been the inspiration of novels, movies, and tv shows. In its efforts to bring their cultural artifacts home, Italy has entered into legal battles against some of the world's major museums, including the Getty, New York's Metropolitan Museum, and the Louvre. It has turned heritage into patrimony capitala powerful and controversial convergence of art, money, and politics. In 2006, the then-president of Italy declared his country to be the world's greatest cultural power. With Ruling Culture, Fiona Greenland traces Trade Review"The famous Art Squad police unit is pitted against thieves and smugglers in this broad-ranging study, which shows how Italy has transformed its rich heritage into global cultural capital." * Apollo, "Off the shelf" *"In this thought-provoking book, Greenland walks us through a couple of centuries of evolving cultural heritage policy in Italy. . . . The book offers a ground-breaking discussion of developing Italian policy for cultural heritage, ending with the inevitable neo-liberal entanglements of private capital, but it also contains a wealth of raw material and pointers for further research." -- Neil Brodie * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Book Reviews *"Fiona Greenland’s Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy is a meticulous and insightful work inviting the reader to look closer at the construction of Italian cultural power . . . This book is a model in terms of methodology and analysis for its depth and kaleidoscopic approach. It can also serve as a way to reflect on western cultural powers and legal systems in place for the preservation of artefacts and archaeological practices." * Cultural Sociology *“In this beautifully written and insightful study of the mutual entanglement between Italy’s national art police squad and the deeply entrenched tradition of tomb robbing, Greenland’s portrayal of the robbers—in whom Italians see heroic tricksters and traitorous villains by turns—is both sharply analytical and descriptively captivating. She deftly articulates historical and legal detail with a rattling good story.” -- Michael Herzfeld, author of Evicted from Eternity: The Restructuring of Modern Rome“Ruling Culture is groundbreaking. Greenland addresses the problem of how culture is used by states and various non-state actors to foster allegiance to nations, investigating culture as a key building block of national identity and making a convincing case for the difference between cultural power and ideological power.” -- Richard Lachmann, author of First Class Passengers on a Sinking Ship: Elite Politics and the Decline of Great Powers“Ruling Culture provides a detailed and thought-provoking analysis of the construction of Italian national identity. It promises to be a major contribution to our understanding of Italian national identity, the institutional and legal dimensions of heritage, and the disciplinary history of archaeology. Greenland has written a first-rate piece of work and a valuable scholarly contribution.” -- Joshua Arthurs, author of Excavating Modernity: The Roman Past in Fascist Italy"Tomb robbing is not the typical sociological fare, and thanks to Fiona Greenland’s expertise and beautiful writing, Ruling Culture: Art Police, Tomb Robbers, and the Rise of Cultural Power in Italy emerges as a fresh, fascinating work of cultural analysis." * Contemporary Sociology *"[Greenland's] methods and analysis reflect her positionality as a social scientist with a deep appreciation for and understanding of the humanities. Ruling Culture is a model for how to incorporate multiple sources of data within sociological analysis." * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The World’s Greatest Cultural Power 1 Art Squad Agonistes 2 The American Price 3 Distributing Sovereignty: From Fascism to the Art Squad 4 Tomb Robbers and Cultural Power from Below 5 Made in Italy 6 Farewell to the Tomb Robber Acknowledgments Appendix: Methodology Notes References Index
£91.00
The University of Chicago Press Metropolitan Museum Journal 2022 Volume 57 Volume
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£41.80
McGill-Queen's University Press Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern
Book SynopsisAn original perspective on the history of northern North American peoples grounded in things, this book explores how close, collaborative looking can discern the traces of contact, exchange, and movement of objects and give them a life and political power in complex cross-cultural histories.Trade Review"Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America demonstrates how objects can be related to such diverse themes as status, masculinity, imperial and diplomatic relations, craftsmanship, perseverance of Indigenous traditions, cultural hybridity, personal relationships and gift-giving, consumerism, ways of knowing, and health and healing. It is a sustained application of material culture theory to a diverse range of Indigenous material culture that keeps the objects front and centre." Michelle Hamilton, University of Western Ontario“Ultimately, Object Lives and Global Histories provides a broader appreciation of multidisciplinary approaches to Indigenous material cultures. It also encourages scholars, museum workers, and others to delve deep, to engage in slow or concentrated looking and multi-sensory explorations, as well as multi-vocal dialogues—to listen, to learn, and to honour the abundance of knowledges that function outside the walls of the museums, the archives, and institutional frameworks. It offers insights as to how decentre and reframe historical analyses of objects by bringing lives to bear on their existence.” RACAR"Object Lives and Global Histories in Northern North America is without doubt 'a tool for future endeavours' as it sets out to be. Like the objects it analyses, it should circulate widely, across disciplinary borders and social networks beyond museum walls to help guide new methodologies around the study of collections whose diverse contexts—and our understandings of them—continue to change." Dress: The Journal of the Costume Society of America"[T]his book is a feast for the eyes." Material Culture Review/Revue de la culture matérielle“[An] impressive collection that will surely impact how scholars think about material culture, collaborative research, and decolonizing the academy for years to come.” HNet
£35.10
McGill-Queen's University Press The Making of a Museum
Book SynopsisTrade Review"Chronicling a century of cultural engagement with a focus on Guelph's growing artistic community, Judith Nasby weaves personal recollections with reflections on her journey: building a collection, creating an exhibition, publication, and education program, and profiling Indigenous and Canadian art. The Making of a Museum is as much a portrait of Guelph's art centre as it is the story of the development of generations of contemporary artists in Canada. With this book, Nasby focuses attention and research on Guelph's active and engaged artistic communities." Georgiana Uhlyarik, curator of Canadian art"The Making of a Museum is a timely account of the creation and growth of a mid-sized Canadian university art museum. The themes are broadly conceived around cultures of display, yet this is not a study of abstract museology. Judith Nasby interweaves her story with personal anecdotes that tell the tale of the art institution, while revealing the passion and behind-the-scenes manoeuvres that have sustained it. The end result is something quite rare and unexpected – the story of a university art gallery brought to life by a narrator who has dedicated her career to the art museum." Carmen Robertson, Carleton University
£37.05
Columbia University Press Art of Memories
Book SynopsisIn Art of Memories, Vincent Antonin Lépinay documents the Hermitage’s curatorial practices in an innovative consideration of the museum as a cultural laboratory. Lépinay analyzes the tensions between the museum as a space of exploration of the collections and as a culture heavily invested in self-protection from the outside world.Trade ReviewLépinay's ethnographic knowledge of how the staff of St. Petersburg’s Hermitage Museum tends its collections supports a brilliant, theoretically sophisticated analysis of the way curators maintain the meaning and historical importance of art works. Must reading if you want to understand the social processes that shape our experience of art. -- Howard S. Becker, author of Art WorldsIn this beautifully written, superbly researched, and theoretically rich book, Lépinay changes the way you will see museums in general and the Hermitage in particular. His account of the worlds of the museum—knit together through objects, people, and documents—illumines the set of complex trajectories and careers that characterize the museum. -- Geoffrey C. Bowker, Donald Bren Professor in Information and Computer Sciences, University of California, IrvineThis multiperspectival study—directing its analytic arsenal at the sociological, anthropological, and historical components of the Hermitage—is admirable in its refreshing examination of a museum’s infrastructure. Art of Memories is full of wit and intellectual surprises. -- Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, author of The Hand of the Engraver: Albert Flocon Meets Gaston BachelardAs he did so brilliantly for the back office of a bank in Codes of Finance, here Vincent Lépinay goes behind the galleries of one of the world’s greatest museums to discover its infrastructures of knowledge. He shows how, across the tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet eras and with various technologies of memory, the Hermitage collected and protected persons and things, curators and collections. In Art of Memories, the museum is a place of exploration, a space of science, and a cultural laboratory. -- David Stark, author of The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic LifeSheds light on the little-known history of the museum and opens the door to the reader to reveal the organizational structure of the museum as a cultural laboratory. * International Journal of Russian Studies *Theoretically rich and succinctly written, Art of Memories will be of interest to scholars of media studies, social theory, museum studies, and material culture. * Choice *In seeing the museum as a laboratory, as a box, or as an infrastructure, Art of Memories opens avenues to explore and it will be interesting to see how they will be taken up by the specialists and professionals of heritage work. * Books and Ideas *[A] bold and original study. * Russian Review *Table of ContentsPreface: Experimenting with the HermitageIntroduction: The Hermitage, a Cultural Laboratory1. Moving ObjectsInterlude 1: Art History and the Hermitage Before World War II2. Documenting the Museum3. Art History from the Collections UpInterlude 2: Mobility at the Hermitage4. The Nostalgic Modesty of Hermitage Restorers5. Guides: Taking Science Down the Galleries6. Spaces and Surprises: Technologies of Vision for a Long WinterConclusion: Secreting MemoriesAcknowledgmentsNotesReferencesIndex
£22.50
University of Illinois Press African Art Reframed
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
£87.55
Indiana University Press Contested Antiquity
Book SynopsisTrade Review"It is fitting that archaeologists, whose profession played a key role in the establishment of Greece as a client state subservient to the European colonial powers, should today be a vocal majority in this extraordinarily rich critical review of archaeology's political role in Greece and Cyprus over the past two centuries. Contested Antiquity transcends the geographical boundaries of its subject, offering a comprehensive, thoroughly documented, and meticulously argued account that will serve for years to come as a model for the investigation of the impact of ideology and politics on serious scholarship."—Michael Herzfeld, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Contested Antiquity in Greece and CyprusPart I: Between nationalism, colonialism and crypto-colonialism: Historical perspectives and current implications1. Hellas Mon Amour: Revisiting Greece's National "Sites of Trauma"2. Archaeology and Politics in the Inter-War Period: The Swedish Excavations at Asine3. Contested Perceptions of Archaeological Sites in Cyprus: Communities and their Claims on their Past4. Pressed On in Press: Greek Cultural Heritage in the Public Eye: The Post-War YearsPart II: Spatial metaphors and ethnographic observations: heritage, memory and dissonance5. The Gentrification of Memory: The Past as a Social Event in Thessaloniki of the Early Twenty-first Century6. The Oracle of Dodona: Contestation over a "Sacred" Archaeological Landscape7. Archaeological "Protection Zones" and the Limits of the Possible: Archaeological Law, Abandonment and Contested Spaces in GreecePart III: Competing pasts8. Heritage as Obstacle: Or Which View to the Acropolis?9. Eptapyrgio, a Modern Prison inside a World Heritage Monument: Raw Memories in the Margins of Archaeology10. Contemporary Art and "Difficult Heritage": Three Case Studies from AthensEndnoteIndex
£73.95
Indiana University Press Museums and Difference
Book SynopsisHow museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publicsTrade Review. . . fascinating and probing treatments of issues that press on both museum workers and folklorists.October 15, 2008 -- Lee Haring * Brooklyn College (Emeritus) *Museum and Difference is about the role that museums play in shaping the stories that we tell about who we are and how we are different from other people. It is an interesting subject.Jan. 23, 2009 -- Matt Shinn * Museum Practice Magazine *Table of ContentsContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction Daniel J. ShermanPart 1. Representing Difference1. Art Museums and Commonality: A History of High Ideals Andrew McClellan2. "The Last Wild Indian in North America": Changing Museum Representations of Ishi Ira Jacknis3. National Museums and Other Cultures in Modern Japan Angus Lockyer4. Cultural Difference and Cultural Diversity: The Case of the Musée du Quai Branly Nélia Dias5. Gunther von Hagens's Body Worlds: Exhibitionary Practice, German History, and Difference Peter M. McIsaacPart 2. Representing Differently6. Meta Warrick's 1907 "Negro Tableaux" and (Re)Presenting African American Historical Memory W. Fitzhugh Brundage7. Skulls on Display: The Science of Race in Paris's Musée de l'Homme, 1928–1950 Alice L. Conklin8. Dossier: "Inventing Race" in Los Angeles Ilona Katzew and Daniel J. Sherman9. Living and Dying: Ethnography, Class, and Aesthetics in the British Museum Lissant Bolton10. Museums and Historical Amnesia William H. TruettnerContributorsIndex
£22.79
University of Notre Dame Press Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical
Book SynopsisCultural property and its stewardship have long been concerns of museums, archaeologists, art historians, and nations, but recently the legal and political consequences of collecting antiquities have also attracted broad media attention. This has been the result, in part, of several high-profile trials, as well as demands by various governments for the return of antiquities to their countries of origin. These circumstances call out for public discussion that moves beyond the rather clear-cut moral response to looting, to consider the implications of buying, selling, and exhibiting antiquities. To whom should they belong? What constitutes legal ownership of antiquities? What laws govern their importation into the United States, for instance? What circumstances, if any, demand the return of those antiquities to their countries of origin? Is there a consensus among archaeologists and museum directors about these issues? These and other pertinent issues are addressed in thTrade Review“Robin Rhodes' new volume presents a rich collection of essays with multiple perspectives on ethical questions surrounding the ownership of cultural property and the acquisition of antiquities. Directors of large and small museums, lawyers specialized in U.S. and international law, art historians, curators, and field archaeologists address these topics from their own points of view. The result is as rewarding as it is timely.” —Mary Sturgeon, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill". . . one simple unseemly truth: collecting antiquities promotes the destruction of world heritage. I was fascinated by these chapters, and Rhodes has done archaeology a service in publishing this book. The elegant arguments of the archaeologists deserve a wide readership, particularly among Americancollectors. Until they understand what devastation they unwittingly promote, we can only weep for our stolen history." —Jack Davis, Director, American School of Classical Studies at Athens ". . . a welcome addition to an ever burgeoning bibliography on the ethics and legal issues in the antiquities trade. There are many essays here that are up-to-date and easily accessible to any interested reader, because they are largely written in the conversational style with which they were delivered. Many viewpoints are expressed and several essays show how the ground is shifting as museums re-write policies to take into account new legal realities, especially internationally, while archaeologists, anthropologists, art historians, and legal professionals show an increasingly more sophisticated understanding of the many dimensions of illicit excavation and the acquisition of illicit property." —James C. Wright, Bryn Mawr College“Presented by a distinguished group of archaeologists, art historians, museum directors, and professors of law, the essays discuss the ethical and practical issues that concern how antiquities come into museums, addressing in particular international laws against looting and purchasing looted goods, and the issues that archaeologists, museum directors, and historians face when studying goods acquired without provenance.” —Book News“This work addresses the collection and the trade of licit and illicit antiquities in museums, and also the role of academics in documenting the looting of archaeological sites and the trade in antiquities. . . . [It] serves to clarify distinct positions and reminds readers that understanding multiple viewpoints is vital in fostering more public involvement in museums’ practices.” —caareviews.org (CollegeArtAssociation)
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Yale University Press The Peoples Galleries
Book SynopsisThis innovative history of British art museums begins in the early 19th century. The National Gallery and the South Kensington Museum (now the Victoria and Albert Museum) in London may have been at the center of activity, but museums in cities such as Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, and Nottingham were immensely popular and attracted enthusiastic audiences. The People's Galleries traces the rise of art museums in Britain through World War I, focusing on the phenomenon of municipal galleries. This richly illustrated book argues that these regional museums represented a new type of institution: an art gallery for a working-class audience, appropriate for the rapidly expanding cities and shaped by liberal ideals. As their broad appeal weakened with the new century, they adapted and became more conventional. Using a wide range of sources, the book studies the patrons and the publics, the collecting policies, the temporary exhibitions, and the architecture of these institutions, as well as the complex range of reasons for their foundation. Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British ArtTrade Review“…comprehensive and exceptionally well-researched analysis... What Giles Waterfield’s book does, quietly and non-polemically, is to rescue the zeal and enthusiasm of those who opened great civic art museums from the condescension of art history.”— Charles Saumarez Smith, Literary Review -- Charles Saumarez Smith * Literary Review *“…a sophisticated work of scholarship that tells a detailed and fascinating story. As instructive and entertaining as the Victorian museums with which it is concerned, it will be an invaluable resource for many years to come.”—Susan Owens, TLS -- Susan Owens * TLS *
£42.75
Yale University Press William Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern
Book SynopsisWilliam Hunter and the Anatomy of the Modern Museum accompanies a groundbreaking exhibition organized by the Hunterian at the University of Glasgow, in collaboration with the Yale Center for British Art, to celebrate the 2018 tercentenary of The Hunterian's founder, Dr. William Hunter (17181783). This publication is the first in 150 years to assess the contribution made by Hunter, the Scottish-born obstetrician, anatomist, and collector, to the development of the modern museum as a public institution. Essays examine how Hunter gathered his collection to be used as a source of knowledge and instruction, encompassing outstanding paintings and works on paper, coins and medals, and anatomical and zoological specimens. Hunter also possessed ethnographic artifacts from Spain, the Middle East, China, and the South Pacific, and was an avid collector of medieval manuscripts and incunabula; these were all located within one of the most important working libraries of eighteenth-century London. Published by the Yale Center for British Art in association with The HunterianExhibition Schedule:The Hunterian, Glasgow (09/28/1801/06/19)Yale Center for British Art (02/14/1905/20/19)Trade Review“There is, as the exhibition and [this] scholarly catalog demonstrate, a thread running through this collection, a way of thinking associated with the Enlightenment that led William Hunter to spend decades gathering artifacts and then specifying that they be housed in a posthumous museum.”—Edward Rothstein, Wall Street Journal“Hunter’s book, the subject of an essay by Mungo Campbell, is one of the most remarkable and also most beautiful medical publications of its time.” —Duncan Macmillan, The Art NewspaperLong listed for the Historians of British Art Book Prize
£47.50
Yale University Press Afterlives
Book SynopsisA strikingly original exploration of the profound impact of World War II on how we understand the art that survived itTrade ReviewAlfred H. Barr Jr. Award finalist, sponsored by College Art Association
£33.25
Yale University Press Object Biographies Collaborative Approaches to
Book SynopsisA revealing look at ancient art in the Menil Collection that addresses the problem of objects lacking archaeological context This innovative anthology discusses a diversity of ancient Mediterranean objectsa Mesopotamian votive figure, a Egyptian relief from the New Kingdom, and a Greek Geometric fawn among themin the Menil Collection and three other US museums. It offers new models for understanding works from antiquity that lack archaeological context. Essays by 13 authors written with the layperson in mind employ a creative mixture of iconography, technical studies, and modern provenance research to gain insight into the meaning of the objects themselves and what they can teach us more broadly aboutarchaeology, art history, and collecting practices. They take on complex issues of cultural heritage, legality, and taste to bring to life works that are often consigned to either the imperial past or a conceptual limbo. Essays on related groups or single objects introduce fresh frameworks
£38.00
LUP - University of Michigan Press Decolonizing German and European History at the
Book SynopsisExamines European museums’ efforts to investigate colonialism as part of an unprocessed past, confront its presence, and urge repair. The book shows how museums can help visitors mourn historic violence and identify the contemporary agents, beneficiaries, victims, survivors, and resisters of colonial presence.
£27.50
LUP - University of Michigan Press Decolonizing German and European History at the Museum
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Princeton University Press Art of the Deal
Book SynopsisArt today is defined by its relationship to money as never before. Prices have been driven to unprecedented heights, conventional boundaries within the art world have collapsed, and artists think ever more strategically about how to advance their careers. Art is no longer simply made, but packaged, sold, and branded. In Art of the Deal, Noah HorowiTrade Review"Art of the Deal is a crucial book on art and finance."--Blake Gopnik, Daily Beast "[T]he precision and lucidity with which Mr. Horowitz describes the commercialization of art should garner appeal for his book across a broad swath of market participants. For the rest of us, it is an enjoyable glimpse into the opaque corners of the art community."--Benjamin R. Mandel, Journal of Cultural Economics "Horowitz has provided readers with a very thorough and wide-ranging analysis of the contemporary art market that brings an unprecedented complexity to this discussion. His synthesis of the literature on the topic is sophisticated yet lucid and the book is exceptionally well researched, supported by countless citations."--John Zarobell, Tabula Quarterly "I thoroughly enjoyed this critical account of the global contemporary art economy; Noah Horowitz has a real understanding of the inner workings of the market. The fact that he chose to focus on video and experiential art renders his account unique and gives even the seasoned reader interesting insights."--Thaddaeus Ropac, Art Newspaper "One welcome aspect of the book is that its avoids to a degree but not entirely the usual cast and plot lines because of its focus on the relative undermined areas on 'immaterial' art genres in the first two essays. The book's discussion of video and experiential art is interesting. The discussion of the minutiae of this world of performances, installations, action and social interaction and their ancillary elements, content ownership and the rise of the collector's box will add greatly to the reader's ability to appear learned on a suitable social occasion."--Satyajit Das, naked capitalismTable of ContentsList of Illustrations xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xix Notes on Sources xxi Introduction 1 Chapter 1: Video Art 26 Chapter 2: Experiential Art 87 Chapter 3: Art Investment Funds 143 Conclusion 188 Postscript to the Paperback Edition 215 Appendix A: Record Prices for Video Art at Auction, December 2009 229 Appendix B: The Film and Video Collections of Tate and the Whitney Museum of American Art 232 Appendix C: Art Investment Fund Universe 271 Notes 295 Selected Bibliography 347 Index 365
£22.50
McGill-Queen's University Press Museum Pieces
Book SynopsisRuth Phillips argues that these practices are indigenous not only because they originate in Aboriginal activism but because they draw on a distinctively Canadian preference for compromise and tolerance for ambiguity. Phillips dissects seminal exhibitions of Indigenous art to show how changes in display, curatorial voice, and authority stem from broad social, economic, and political forces outside the museum and moves beyond Canadian institutions and practices to discuss historically interrelated developments and exhibitions in the United States, Britain, Australia, and elsewhere. Drawing on forty years of experience as an art historian, curator, exhibition critic, and museum director, she emphasizes the complex and situated nature of the problems that face museums, introducing new perspectives on controversial exhibitions and moments of contestation. A manifesto that calls on us to re-imagine the museum as a place to embrace global interconnectedness, Museum Pieces emphasizes the transTrade Review"Museum Pieces is eminently readable - written simply and elegantly. There is no other book that covers forty years of Canadian museology with such historical depth and theoretical thoughtfulness." Jennifer Kramer, anthropology, University of British Columbia "Ruth Phillips is one of the most well-respected and senior figures working in the domain of contemporary museum anthropology and critical museum studies. The great strengths of this volume are the author's careful research, her unique position within the "Ruth Phillips has been a key maker and shaper of new curatorial and institutional cultures but is also certainly the finest commentator on the progress, in fits and starts, of the museum world over the last thirty years. While the debates have suffered a
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McGill-Queen's University Press Tear Gas Epiphanies
Book SynopsisMuseums are frequently sites of struggle and negotiation. They are key cultural institutions that occupy an oftentimes uncomfortable place at the crossroads of the arts, culture, various levels of government, corporate ventures, and the public. Because of this, museums are targeted by political action but can also provide support for contentious politics. Though protests at museums are understudied, they are far from anomalous. Tear Gas Epiphanies traces the as-yet-untold story of political action at museums in Canada from the early twentieth century to the present. The book looks at how museums do or do not archive protest ephemera, examining a range of responses to actions taking place at their thresholds, from active encouragement to belligerent dismissal. Drawing together extensive primary-source research and analysis, Robertson questions widespread perceptions of museums, strongly arguing for a reconsideration of their role in contemporary society that takes into account politicalTrade Review"Tear Gas Epiphanies is an excellent contribution to the field of critical museum studies in Canada and globally. Robertson highlights exhilarating moments of protest, while also offering critical analysis, paying attention to the demands of intersectionality in theory and practice." Shelley Ruth Butler, McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and co-editor of Curatorial Dreams: Critics Imagine Exhibitions"Tear Gas Epiphanies presents high-quality, well-designed, and well-examined case studies in the context of political debates around art, museums, and activism. It will be widely read by those interested in the politics of culture, national identity, and public history – its formation, models of resistance, and transformations over time." Kylie Message, Australian National University Humanities Research Centre
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University of British Columbia Press Tales of Ghosts
Book SynopsisAn insightful examination of the complex functions of Northwest Coast art objects produced between 1922 and 1961, and a vital addition to First Nations and Canadian history.Trade ReviewRonald W. Hawker exposes and then considers the multiple ways in which meaning has been created and consumed around First Nations art objects by its viewing audiences. In so doing, he brings a new line to bear on the role Native art has played in the negotiation of social and geographical spaces in British Columbia. The book will interest scholars of Native studies, Canadian art history, anthropology, and cultural studies. -- Andrea N. Walsh * University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2004/05 *Table of ContentsIllustrationsAcknowledgments1 Introduction2 The Cranmer Potlatch and Indian Agent Halliday’s Display3 Totem Poles in Stanley Park4 Northwest Coast Art as National Heritage: Two Federal Projects of the Late 1920s5 The New Deals: George Raley and Depression-era Reform in British Columbia6 Alice Ravenhill and the BCIAWS7 Mathias Joe, Mungo Martin, and George Clutesi: "Art" as Resistance8 UBC, the BCPM, and the Totem Pole Carver Training Program9 The Totem Pole Preservation Committee and the Case of the Gitanyow10 Tales of Ghosts That Hover in the World Like Fading SmokeAppendices:A Map showing First Nations groups in British ColumbiaB Chronology of First Nations art in British Columbia, 1921-61NotesBibliographyIndex
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University of British Columbia Press So Much More Than Art
Book SynopsisSo Much More Than Art reveals the fascinating practice of miniaturization in Indigenous Northwest Coast art as a subtle form of communication in the face of oppressive colonization.Trade ReviewDavy establishes the miniature as a significant social actor on the Northwest Coast. -- Emily L. Moore, Colorado State University * BC Studies *Davy argues that miniature carving can be understood as a form of resistance in the face of 'aggressive colonization ... ' Students and scholars of anthropology and museology will find this volume eye-opening. -- L. De Danaan * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Practice and Play: The Makah 2 The Haida String: Northern Peoples3 Tiny Dancers and Idiot Sticks: The Kwakwaka’wakw4 Small Foundations: Tulalip Tribes 5 An Elemental Theory of Miniaturization6 Analysis of Technique and Status7 Miniature RealitiesNotes; References; Index
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University of British Columbia Press So Much More Than Art Indigenous Miniatures of
Book SynopsisSo Much More Than Art reveals the fascinating practice of miniaturization in Indigenous Northwest Coast art as a subtle form of communication in the face of oppressive colonization.Trade ReviewDavy establishes the miniature as a significant social actor on the Northwest Coast. -- Emily L. Moore, Colorado State University * BC Studies *Davy argues that miniature carving can be understood as a form of resistance in the face of 'aggressive colonization ... ' Students and scholars of anthropology and museology will find this volume eye-opening. -- L. De Danaan * CHOICE Connect *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Practice and Play: The Makah 2 The Haida String: Northern Peoples3 Tiny Dancers and Idiot Sticks: The Kwakwaka’wakw4 Small Foundations: Tulalip Tribes 5 An Elemental Theory of Miniaturization6 Analysis of Technique and Status7 Miniature RealitiesNotes; References; Index
£25.19
MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Engaging Museums Rhetorical Education and Social
Book SynopsisWhile both museum studies and rhetoric centre the audience in their scholarship and practices, this volume engages across and between these disciplines, allowing for a fuller theorization and enactment of rhetorical education's connections to social justice.Table of Contents Dedication Acknowledgements Prologue.The Catalyst of Memory 1. Rhetorical Education and Why Museums Matter 2. A Pedagogy for Identification 3.Toward a Collective Rhetoric 4.Expanding the Canon of Memory 5.Engaging Museums: The Possibilities of Memory Appendix A. Interview Questions for Museum Staff Members Appendix B. Interview Questions for Museum Visitors Works Cited and Consulted
£34.16
MP-FLO Uni Press of Florida Mobilizing Heritage
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University Press of Florida Negotiating Heritage through Education and
Book SynopsisThrough an innovative approach that combines years of ethnographic research with British imperial archival sources, this book reveals how cultural heritage has been negotiated by colonial, independent state, and community actors in Belize from the late nineteenth century to the present.
£67.15
MW - Rutgers University Press Exhibiting Atrocity Memorial Museums and the
Book SynopsisExhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration. Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums around the world to analyze their use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Trade Review"This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years." -- Jay Winter * coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century *"Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists." -- Joyce Apsel * author of Introducing Peace Museums *“An original and unique study…Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists.” * Midwest Book Review *"Sodaro examines how many communities, be they groups or countries, work through staggering events like 9/11 by building museums to parse through them." * SUM *"Exhibiting Atrocity sets a precedent that will allow researchers and visitors to recognize these museums for the political projects that they really are – neither good nor bad but always potentially very dangerous. The greatest danger inherent in the ways in which memorial museums exhibit atrocity is that they routinely fail to expose the fragility, vulnerability and precariousness of political systems and norms. This leaves us vulnerable to manipulation, demagoguery, and the authoritarian personalities lying in wait." * European Journal of Cultural and Political Socioloy *"A welcome addition to a growing body of literature within memory studies that examines the global turn in using museums to commemorate past mass atrocities. This book demonstrates that there is much more research to be done and offers inquiring minds a useful starting point." * Memory Studies *New Books Network: New Books in Jewish Studies interview with Amy Sodaro * New Books Network: New Books in Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Memorial Museums: The Emergence of a New Form 2 The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Creation of a “Living Memorial” 3 The House of Terror: “The Only One of Its Kind” 4 The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre: Building a “Lasting Peace” 5 The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: “A Living Museum for Chile’s Memory” 6 The National September 11 Memorial Museum: “To Bear Solemn Witness” 7 Memorial Museums: Promises and Limits Notes Bibliography Index
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Rutgers University Press Exhibiting Atrocity Memorial Museums and the
Book SynopsisExhibiting Atrocity documents the emergence of the memorial museum as a new cultural form of commemoration. Amy Sodaro uses in-depth case studies of five exemplary memorial museums around the world to analyze their use in efforts to come to terms with past political violence and to promote democracy and human rights. Trade Review"This intelligent and cogently-constructed narrative is a significant addition to the growing literature on public commemoration over the past fifty years." -- Jay Winter * coeditor of War and Remembrance in the Twentieth Century *"Exhibiting Atrocity is an ambitious, significant study providing in-depth case studies of five memorial museums and how they attempt to narrate 'difficult history' and navigate the politics of memory. Accessible and wide-ranging, this interdisciplinary volume is an important, timely resource for students as well as specialists." -- Joyce Apsel * author of Introducing Peace Museums *“An original and unique study…Exhibiting Atrocity: Memorial Museums and the Politics of Past Violence is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to both community and academic library Human Rights and Cultural History collections [and] Museum Studies supplemental reading lists.” * Midwest Book Review *"Sodaro examines how many communities, be they groups or countries, work through staggering events like 9/11 by building museums to parse through them." * SUM *"Exhibiting Atrocity sets a precedent that will allow researchers and visitors to recognize these museums for the political projects that they really are – neither good nor bad but always potentially very dangerous. The greatest danger inherent in the ways in which memorial museums exhibit atrocity is that they routinely fail to expose the fragility, vulnerability and precariousness of political systems and norms. This leaves us vulnerable to manipulation, demagoguery, and the authoritarian personalities lying in wait." * European Journal of Cultural and Political Socioloy *"A welcome addition to a growing body of literature within memory studies that examines the global turn in using museums to commemorate past mass atrocities. This book demonstrates that there is much more research to be done and offers inquiring minds a useful starting point." * Memory Studies *New Books Network: New Books in Jewish Studies interview with Amy Sodaro * New Books Network: New Books in Jewish Studies *Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments Introduction 1 Memorial Museums: The Emergence of a New Form 2 The US Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Creation of a “Living Memorial” 3 The House of Terror: “The Only One of Its Kind” 4 The Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre: Building a “Lasting Peace” 5 The Museum of Memory and Human Rights: “A Living Museum for Chile’s Memory” 6 The National September 11 Memorial Museum: “To Bear Solemn Witness” 7 Memorial Museums: Promises and Limits Notes Bibliography Index
£105.40
Rutgers University Press The Remembered and Forgotten Jewish World Jewish
Book SynopsisPart travelogue, part social history, and part family saga, this book investigates the politics of heritage tourism and collective memory. Acclaimed historian Daniel J. Walkowitz visits key Jewish heritage sites from Berlin to Belgrade to Warsaw to New York to discover which stories of the Jewish experience get told and which get silenced. Trade Review"Daniel Walkowitz takes us on a set of journeys, which eloquently connect tourism, family, migration, and the constant remaking of Jewish history through lived life." -- Hasia R. Diner * Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University *"A Jewish heritage tour guide like no other, Walkowitz journeys into places hidden by time and all-too-familiar narratives to open possibilities for thinking, writing and remembering a diverse, often paradoxical and always richly complex Jewish past." -- Alisse Waterston * author of My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century *"Intimately personal and universal. Passionate in argument and crystal clear in analysis. This is the best history, memory and heritage studies offers. And the best book on Jewish heritage tourism I have ever read." -- Marcin Wodzinski * professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland *"Recommended." * Choice *"Why Don't American Jews Search for their Heritage in New York City?" by Daniel J. Walkowitz * Zócalo Public Square *"Does focus on Holocaust tourism dim the memory of vibrant prewar Jewish life?" by J.P. O'Malley * Times of Israel *"[The book] makes a significant contribution insofar as it challenges, to return to my opening remarks, the long-standing, lachrymose approach to the study of Jewish history––and not just of Jewish history but of history itself....Walkowitz has written a stimulating book that will be of interest to historians in memory, museum, and Jewish studies." * American Historical Review *"Daniel Walkowitz takes us on a set of journeys, which eloquently connect tourism, family, migration, and the constant remaking of Jewish history through lived life." -- Hasia R. Diner * Paul S. and Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History, New York University *"A Jewish heritage tour guide like no other, Walkowitz journeys into places hidden by time and all-too-familiar narratives to open possibilities for thinking, writing and remembering a diverse, often paradoxical and always richly complex Jewish past." -- Alisse Waterston * author of My Father’s Wars: Migration, Memory, and the Violence of a Century *"Intimately personal and universal. Passionate in argument and crystal clear in analysis. This is the best history, memory and heritage studies offers. And the best book on Jewish heritage tourism I have ever read." -- Marcin Wodzinski * professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Wroclaw in Poland *"Recommended." * Choice *"Why Don't American Jews Search for their Heritage in New York City?" by Daniel J. Walkowitz * Zócalo Public Square *"Does focus on Holocaust tourism dim the memory of vibrant prewar Jewish life?" by J.P. O'Malley * Times of Israel *"[The book] makes a significant contribution insofar as it challenges, to return to my opening remarks, the long-standing, lachrymose approach to the study of Jewish history––and not just of Jewish history but of history itself....Walkowitz has written a stimulating book that will be of interest to historians in memory, museum, and Jewish studies." * American Historical Review *Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Preface Note on Text Introduction Prelude The Jewish Heritage Tourism Business Interlude Part I: Looking for Bubbe 2. Mszczonów and Łódź: Heritage Entrepreneurship 3. Mostyska, Lviv, and Kiev: Double Erasures 4. London: Walking Heritage Unpacked in the Jewish Diaspora 5. New York: Immigrant Heritage in the Jewish Diaspora Part II: Going Back 6. Berlin: A Holocaust Cityscape 7. Belgrade, Budapest, and Bucharest: Postwar Nationalism and Socialism 8. Kraków and Warsaw: Troubling Paradigms Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
£29.70
University of Arizona Press Visualizing Genocide
£80.25
University of Arizona Press From the Skin
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University of Arizona Press From the Skin
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£80.25
University of Minnesota Press AvantGarde Museology
Book SynopsisAvant-Garde Museology presents essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia.Trade Review"A collection of crucial essays documenting the wildly encompassing progressivism of this period. "—Russian Art and Culture"An attempt to open up for the reader the field of museum studies alongside art history to an invaluable moment in our cultural, aesthetic, and historical heritage that has not been so readily available."—Leonardo Reviews"Avant-Garde Museology...aims to question the existing art historical cannon by revisiting and complicating it. It is not difficult to find in the book the prototypes of some of the newest tendencies in recent museological and curatorial development."—Art Review Asia"It is the broad range of primary documents selected by Arseny Zhilyaev that makes this collection such a valuable resource, presenting a more accurate picture of the debates on museology during the period."—The Burlington Magazine
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Ohio University Press Authentically African Arts and the Transnational
Book SynopsisTogether, the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, and the Institut des Musées Nationaux du Zaire (IMNZ) in the Congo have defined and marketed Congolese art and culture.Trade Review“This masterful study of Belgian and Congolese collecting and exhibitions of African arts, and the murky heritage politics so implied, offers insights for understanding colonial and postcolonial histories of representation anywhere in the world.”“Authentically African successfully shows how colonial tensions between politics and creativity left their imprint on colonial as well as on postcolonial Congo… this book remains a necessary introduction to some key chapters in the rich and complex entrance of arts premiers into world cultural histories.” * American Historical Review *“This is an important book that fills a gap in our knowledge about museums in this geographical area as well as our understanding of the role of political ideologies, a topic which has been well covered in South Africa, for example, but not as much by scholars in other parts of sub-Saharan Africa. … An impressive analysis.” * Museum Anthropology Review *“This well-informed book is the result of a careful inquiry carried out ‘on the spot’ in Congo, Belgium, and North America. … Authentically African successfully shows how colonial tensions between politics and creativity left their imprint on colonial as well as on postcolonial Congo. … This book remains a necessary introduction to some key chapters in the rich and complex entrance of arts premiers into world cultural histories.” * American Historical Review *“[An] impressive exploration of how and postcolonial powers in former Zaire utilized ‘cultural guardianship’ to justify their political legitimacy and to establish cultural and political economies nationally and internationally.” * African Studies Quarterly *“Authentically African is an impressively researched study of material culture and its institutions in the construction of Congolese cultural and political projects. Van Beurden’s fascinating examination of objects and collections in cultural and political economies makes a significant contribution to several bodies of scholarship, from those focused on material culture, heritage, and identity politics to those concerned with African cultural institutions as part of the global landscape.”
£66.00
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology,U.S. The Emergence of an Iron Age Economy
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Getty Trust Publications Going to the Getty
Book SynopsisThis children's book takes a tour through the Getty Museum, adjacent gardens, conservation laboratories and other sites at the Getty Center. It features the colourful, humorous characters Milli Ennium, Quincy and their cohorts.
£15.19
Getty Trust Publications Effects of Light on Materials in Collections
Book SynopsisA review of the literature on the impact of light sources, particularly photo and reprographic flash, on art and archival materials. It should be useful to museum conservators, conservation scientists, and museum and technical libraries.
£28.50
John Wiley & Sons Managing Costume Collections An Essential Primer
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£30.56
John Wiley & Sons Managing Costume Collections
£18.86
Artasiapacific Art and Trousers Tradition and Modernity in
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Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning
Book SynopsisTrade Review‘A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: Perspectives from Europe the book by Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus brings new dialogues and bridges the dichotomy of an “east” and “west” understanding of heritage that has been taken for granted as two different dichotomies. This book offers an insight on how the western world itself is also not homogenous in the understanding of what heritage is and heritage is not always tangible in the “west”. This book shows readers that there is no universal European understanding of heritage and planning. Only in specific divisions of European countries and mostly in urban contexts does so-called European heritage understanding dominate the discourse and planning. This book aims to not only elaborate on heritage planning and research in Europe, but also push beyond a Eurocentric approach, and examine the research this approach produces and the foundation on which it is developed, as well as give funding to the projects and people who work in this field.’ -- Cut Dewi, Built Heritage‘A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning offers an ambitious reflection on the complex articulation of research, practice and policy that inform the uses of heritage in Europe today. Editors Eva Stegmeijer and Loes Veldpaus gather a coherent, wide-ranging selection of cases, successfully stressing heritage’s decisive role in solving Europe's current identity, climate and developmental challenges. As an extensive recount of the latest research advancements, this book will exceed the expectations of those exploring the frontiers of heritage, and enlighten readers about the profound transcendence of its planning in contemporary societies.’ -- Plácido González Martínez, Tongji University, China‘This edited volume by Stegmeijer and Veldpaus provides a ground-breaking Research Agenda for heritage planning and would be useful not only for practitioners, but also for academics, students and politicians.’ -- Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, UKTable of ContentsContents: Foreword: some key challenges for heritage science research xix PART I SETTING THE SCENE FOR HERITAGE PLANNING: PERSPECTIVES FROM EUROPE 1 Introduction to A Research Agenda for Heritage Planning: the state of heritage planning in Europe 31 Eva Stegmeijer, Loes Veldpaus and Joks Janssen 2 Heritage research in the 21st century: departing from the useful futures of sustainable develoment 49 Višnja Kisić 3 The value of heritage in sustainable development and spatial planning 67 Koenraad Van Balen and Aziliz Vandesande PART II CURRENT RESEARCH IN HERITAGE PLANNING: PROJECTS FROM EUROPE SECTION A HERITAGE AND IDENTITY 4 Introduction to heritage and identity: from planning and policies to communities, and back 85 Remi Wacogne 5 Exploring archaeology’s place in participatory European cultural landscape management: perspectives from the ‘REFIT’ project 89 Tom Moore and Gemma Tully 6 Industrial heritage and conservation planning, changing governance practices, examples from Europe 103 Loes Veldpaus and Remi Wacogne 7 Developing participation through digital reconstruction and communication of ‘lost’ heritage 115 Laura Loredana Micoli, Gabriele Guidi, Pablo Rodríguez-Gonzálvez, Diego González-Aguilera 8 Cultural heritage and European identity in European Union law and policy 127 Francesca Fiorentini, Kristin Hausler and Andrzej Jakubowski SECTION B HERITAGE AND CLIMATE 9 Introduction to heritage and climate change: current gaps and scientific challenges 143 Claudio Margottini 10 New uses for old waterways 149 Francesco Vallerani and Francesco Visentin 11 Satellite monitoring of geo-hazards affecting cultural heritage 161 Daniele Spizzichino and Claudio Margottini 12 Archaeological site monitoring and risk assessment using remote sensing technologies and GIS 171 Stefano De Angeli and Fabiana Battistin SECTION C HERITAGE AND DEVELOPMENT 13 Introduction to heritage and development: the agency of heritage in rural and urban development practices 183 Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist 14 Cultural heritage and improvised music in European festivals 189 Tony Whyton and Beth Perry 15 Cultural heritage at work for economy and society 201 Stefano Della Torre and Rossella Moioli 16 Gastronomy and creative entrepreneurship in rural tourism: encouraging sustainable community development 213 Annelie Sjölander-Lindqvist, Anna de Jong, Romà Garrido Puig, Giuseppa Romeo and Wilhelm Skoglund PART III RESEARCH AGENDA FOR HERITAGE PLANNING. PERSPECTIVES FOR EUROPE (AND BEYOND) 17 Towards a more just world: an agenda for transformative heritage planning futures 227 Loes Veldpaus, Višnja Kisić, Eva Stegmeijer and Joks Janssen Index
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