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Cork University Press Blarney Castle: Its History, Development and Purpose
Book SynopsisThe book describes Gaelic society and the castle's role within its clan organisation. A detailed history of the MacCarthy Muskerry clan charts their rise to power and their ultimate loss of Blarney after the battle of the Boyne. The families who owned the castle (the MacCarthys, the Jefferies and the Colthursts) are described, together with the major national and international events and social movements with which they were often intimately involved. The cult of the "picturesque" and a growing interest in Irish traditions during the nineteenth century, together with the development of the railways, transformed Blarney from a derelict ruin to a major tourist attractionFinally, the book attempts to illuminate some of the traditions surrounding the famous Blarney Stone.
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estamp Exhibiting Prints
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D Giles Ltd One Hundred Stories Highlights from the
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Fort Publishing Ltd Edinburgh: 10 Walks in the Historic Old Town
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Maney Publishing The Tradition of the Actor-author in Italian
Book SynopsisThis book brings together critical essays on the role of the actor-author, spanning the period from the Renaissance to the present. It surveys the works of Dario Fo, De Filippo, and Bene, and casts light on a tradition which continues into Neapolitan and Sicilian theatre today.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The Actor-Author in Castiglione's 'Il Cortegiano': 'lo esser travestito porta seco una certa libertà e licenzia' 2. Perché molte cose stanno ben nella penna che nella scena starebben male' Reading Between the Lines of the Surviving Ruzante Texts 3. Isabella Andreini's Stage Repertoire: The 'Lettere' and 'Fragmenti' 4. Commedie fortunate…’: 'Le due comedie in comedia' di Giovan Battista Andreini 5. The Actor and the Author: Renaissance Theatre in England and Italy 6. Goldoni, Gozzi, e il lavoro con l'attore 7. Napoli tra Ottocento e Novecento: dalla drammaturgia dell'attore alla drammaturgia dell'autore e ritorno 8. Il dilemma del teatro: 'La parte di Amleto' di Eduardo De Filippo 9. Characters in an English Adaptation of 'Napoli milionaria!' 10. La scrittura 'sul pubblico': The Fo-Rame Method 11. Franca Rame's Dowry How the Rame Family Tradition Lives On in the Theatre of Dario Fo and Franca Rame 12. Il 'funerale dell'orale'. Carmelo Bene: la scena e la scena della pagina 13. The Actor-Narrator 14. Marco Baliani's Theatrical Storytelling of Wonderment 15. Sguardi su una Napoli contemporanea attraverso il teatro di Annibale Ruccello 16. Il buio in fondo al sacco Parole in fuga e corpi senza scampo nel teatro di Spiro Scimone
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YouCaxton Publications Guide to Turkey for History Travellers
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Blue Crow Media Modernist Detroit Map: Guide to modernist
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De Gruyter Friedrichstein: Das Schloss der Grafen von
Book SynopsisSchloss Friedrichstein, im frühen 18. Jahrhundert als Familiensitz der Grafen Dönhoff erbaut, war eines der prächtigsten unter den Schlössern Ostpreußens. Die zweite Auflage von Friedrichstein bietet neben neu aufgetauchten Quellen (wie etwa dem Fluchtbericht des letzten Schlossbewohners Graf Dietrich Dönhoff) und einer Überarbeitung aller Texte unter Berücksichtigung aktuellster Forschungsergebnisse, drei neue Beiträge sowie eine digitale "Auferstehung" des Schlosses im Rahmen des deutsch-polnisch-russischen Forschungsprojekts "Virtuelle Rekonstruktionen in transnationalen Forschungsumgebungen" des Marburger Herder-Instituts. Zahlreiche neue Abbildungen, darunter digitale Rekonstruktionen der Schlossanlage in ihrer heutigen Umgebung, eröffnen einen Blick auf eine beinahe verloren gegangene Architektur und Inneneinrichtung.
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De Gruyter Italien in Potsdam
Book SynopsisFriedrich der Große war der Erste, der der kleinen Stadt an der Havel mehr Weltläufigkeit und Eleganz verleihen wollte und deshalb zahlreiche italienische Bauwerke und Plätze nachahmen ließ. Der Palazzo Barberini findet sich nämlich nicht nur auf dem Quirinal in Rom, sondern auch am Potsdamer Alten Markt, ein antiker Rundtempel nicht nur in Tivoli, sondern auch unweit der Glienicker Brücke und die Römischen Bäder liegen auch in der Nähe von Schloss Charlottenhof im Park Sanssouci. Der Kunstführer begleitet Sie auf einem Spaziergang durch das italienische Potsdam mit mehr als dreißig Sehenswürdigkeiten und führt von großen, prächtigen Plätzen über einmalige Parkanlagen hin zu kleinen versteckten Details, die manchmal erst auf den zweiten Blick ihre Verwandtschaft zu Italien preisgeben.
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De Gruyter Park an der Ilm
Book SynopsisDer Park an der Ilm als Teil des Ensembles UNESCO-Welterbe „Klassisches Weimar" ist heute gleichermaßen Gartendenkmal wie Erholungsort. Der Band beschreibt die beispielhafte Entwicklung der anfangs barocken Anlage in der Zeit Goethes zum Landschaftspark im englischen Stil mit den für die Epoche 1770 bis 1830 typischen Entwicklungsphasen. Neben dem Wörlitzer Park entwickelte sich dieser Garten zu einem der modernsten seiner Zeit in Deutschland. Im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen zeitgenössischen Anlagen verzichtete man in Weimar weitestgehend auf allegorisches Beiwerk und setzte auch Denkmale und Architekturen eher sparsam ein. Das abwechslungsreiche Gestaltungs- und Raumkonzept aus künstlerisch geformten und zugleich natürlich anmutenden Partien ist bis heute prägend.
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Hirmer Verlag Museum Liaunig: An Austrian Collector's Museum
Book SynopsisFully integrated into the nature of the Corinthian countryside, the Museum Liaunig is at once restrained and spectacular. An outstanding example of contemporary museum architecture, it creates spaces for the Liaunig collections whose focus is on Austria n art from the post - war era to the present. “I am a collector by nature”, Herbert Liaunig says about his passion for collecting in an interview. Knowledgeable and passionate about art, Herbert Liaunig has assembled his collections and has presented them i n major theme - based exhibitions at his museum. Aside from the focus on Austrian art from the post - war era to the present, a high quality standard is also evident in the collections of portrait miniatures, glasses, and African gold. The richly illustrated c atalogue presents his collecting in its full breadth.
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Kehrer Verlag Place Hampi: The Panoramic Imaginary of
Book SynopsisThe first book on a groundbreaking interactive art installation where archaeology, photography and new media converge against the backdrop of the infamous UNESCO world heritage site.
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A A Balkema Publishers Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage
Book SynopsisThis collection includes thirty-six important recent works on the effects of pollutants on heritage sites, including thirty papers delivered to the Seville International Workshop on Air Pollution and Cultural Heritage in 2003, and six invited new additions. All papers have been written by a team of leading international contributors and are divided into five subject areas to cover the main topics of interest today. This volume is aimed at archaeologists and molecular biologists as well as advanced students and researchers in the fields of biodeterioration, building materials, micro-organisms and cultural heritage.Table of ContentsForewordOrganizationPart 1. Aerosols, particulate matter and black crust characterizationPart 2. Effects of air pollution on materials and monumentsPart 3. Techniques for the study of air pollution and monument weatheringPart 4. Soiling and cleaningPart 5. Cultural Heritage policiesAuthor Index
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BIS Publishers B.V. Museum Art cards: Experience Art Like Never
Book SynopsisBesides the overwhelming amount of visual information that can stand in the way of a pleasant museum visit, there’s another trivial matter: meaning. Many of us aim to understand and categorize everything we see, but what do you truly think when looking at a particular artwork? The activities on these cards help you to establish a connection with an artwork yourself, despite any given information. You can do this in each museum, anywhere in the world. Follow the activities from A-Z, choose one randomly or do the ones who appeal to you most.
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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.
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Bloomsbury India Another Hyderabad in Deccan Hardback
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Avery B. Hodges Discover Ecuador
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Indiana University Press Mississippi Civil War Monuments
Book SynopsisWith careful details and vivid descriptions, Mississippi Civil War Monuments offers a comprehensive guide to the memorials that make up Mississippi's physical and historical landscape.Trade Review"Against the fraught backdrop of debate over Civil War statues, Timothy Sedore guides us deftly through 800 Union and Confederate monuments in Mississippi with judicious precision and Lincolnian magnanimity. Now more than ever, we are fortunate to have this level-headed, clear-eyed book. "—Stephen Cushman, Robert E. Taylor Professor of English, University of Virginia"Mississippi's 800 Civil War-related monuments far exceed in number those in any other state—including more commemorating the Union than anywhere but Pennsylvania.. Timothy S. Sedore's exceptionally valuable survey should find an appreciate readership at a time when Americans are debating how best to deal with statues and other monuments that reflect the war's, and history's, hard edges."—Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Union War"The Magnolia State saw some of the most significant fighting of the Civil War, and it was in Mississippi that arguably the most important campaign of the conflict took place, now fittingly commemorated in the Vicksburg National Military Park. Timothy S. Sedore's Mississippi Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated Field Guide provides a wonderful and insightful glimpse into the state's Civil War history while taking the reader on a tour of the monuments that commemorate both the fighting and the men who did the fighting. "—Timothy B. Smith, author of Shiloh: Conquer or Perish, Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, and The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi."Anyone visiting Mississippi's Civil War landscape would be well served to carry a copy of Sedore's guide with them. From Vicksburg to Oxford, readers will find a rich examination of how and why Confederate and Union monuments sprang up across the state."—Caroline E. Janney, Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsList of MapsPrefaceIntroduction1. Vicksburg National Military Park2. The Vicksburg National Monument Park Landscape3. Northern MississippiAlcorn CountyTishomingo CountyTippah CountyPrentiss County Lee CountyPontotoc CountyDeSoto CountyLafayette CountyYalobusha CountyTallahatchie CountyChickasaw CountyMonroe CountyGrenada CountyBolivar CountyWashington CountyLeflore CountyCarrol CountyMontgomery CountyOktibbeha CountyClay CountyLowndes County4. Central MississippiHumphreys CountyHolmes CountyAttala CountyWinston CountyNoxubee CountyYazoo CountyMadison CountyNeshoba CountyKemper CountyLauderdale CountyRankin CountyHinds County5. Southern MississippiAdams CountyJefferson CountyClaiborne CountyCopiah CountyLincoln CountyAmite CountyJones CountyJasper County Clarke CountyWayne CountyForrest CountyPearl River CountyGeorge CountyHarrison CountySelected Sources
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Indiana University Press Mississippi Civil War Monuments
Book SynopsisWith careful details and vivid descriptions, Mississippi Civil War Monuments offers a comprehensive guide to the memorials that make up Mississippi's physical and historical landscape.Trade Review"Against the fraught backdrop of debate over Civil War statues, Timothy Sedore guides us deftly through 800 Union and Confederate monuments in Mississippi with judicious precision and Lincolnian magnanimity. Now more than ever, we are fortunate to have this level-headed, clear-eyed book. "—Stephen Cushman, Robert E. Taylor Professor of English, University of Virginia"Mississippi's 800 Civil War-related monuments far exceed in number those in any other state—including more commemorating the Union than anywhere but Pennsylvania.. Timothy S. Sedore's exceptionally valuable survey should find an appreciate readership at a time when Americans are debating how best to deal with statues and other monuments that reflect the war's, and history's, hard edges."—Gary W. Gallagher, author of The Union War"The Magnolia State saw some of the most significant fighting of the Civil War, and it was in Mississippi that arguably the most important campaign of the conflict took place, now fittingly commemorated in the Vicksburg National Military Park. Timothy S. Sedore's Mississippi Civil War Monuments: An Illustrated Field Guide provides a wonderful and insightful glimpse into the state's Civil War history while taking the reader on a tour of the monuments that commemorate both the fighting and the men who did the fighting. "—Timothy B. Smith, author of Shiloh: Conquer or Perish, Champion Hill: Decisive Battle for Vicksburg, and The Real Horse Soldiers: Benjamin Grierson's Epic 1863 Civil War Raid Through Mississippi."Anyone visiting Mississippi's Civil War landscape would be well served to carry a copy of Sedore's guide with them. From Vicksburg to Oxford, readers will find a rich examination of how and why Confederate and Union monuments sprang up across the state."—Caroline E. Janney, Director, John L. Nau III Center for Civil War History, University of VirginiaTable of ContentsList of MapsPrefaceIntroduction1. Vicksburg National Military Park2. The Vicksburg National Monument Park Landscape3. Northern MississippiAlcorn CountyTishomingo CountyTippah CountyPrentiss County Lee CountyPontotoc CountyDeSoto CountyLafayette CountyYalobusha CountyTallahatchie CountyChickasaw CountyMonroe CountyGrenada CountyBolivar CountyWashington CountyLeflore CountyCarrol CountyMontgomery CountyOktibbeha CountyClay CountyLowndes County4. Central MississippiHumphreys CountyHolmes CountyAttala CountyWinston CountyNoxubee CountyYazoo CountyMadison CountyNeshoba CountyKemper CountyLauderdale CountyRankin CountyHinds County5. Southern MississippiAdams CountyJefferson CountyClaiborne CountyCopiah CountyLincoln CountyAmite CountyJones CountyJasper County Clarke CountyWayne CountyForrest CountyPearl River CountyGeorge CountyHarrison CountySelected Sources
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Indiana University Press Museums of Communism
Book SynopsisHow did communities come to terms with the collapse of communism? In order to guide the wider narrative, many former communist countries constructed museums dedicated to chronicling their experiences. Museums of Communism explores the complicated intersection of history, commemoration, and victimization made evident in these museums constructed after 1991. While contributors from a diverse range of fields explore various museums and include nearly 90 photographs, a common denominator emerges: rather than focusing on artifacts and historical documents, these museums often privilege memories and stories. In doing so, the museums shift attention from experiences of guilt or collaboration to narratives of shared victimization under communist rule. As editor Stephen M. Norris demonstrates, these museums are often problematic at best and revisionist at worst. From occupation museums in the Baltic States to memorial museums in Ukraine, former secret police prisons in Romania, and nostalgic muTrade ReviewThe chapters do present a series of stimulating (and sometimes provocative) case studies about the situation in particular countries. It is a book which will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers with interests in the post-communist world and more broadly in issues of post-communist memory politics. -- Duncan Light * Eurasian Geography and Economics *Both empirically and theoretically, this volume manages the rare trick of adding up to much more than the sum of its parts; it is essential reading for all scholars and students of Eastern European memory politics and museology. -- Polly Jones - University College, Oxford * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Communist Museums to Museums of Communism: An Introduction / Stephen M. NorrisExhibit A: Hall of Genocide, Occupation, and Terror 1. Sovereignty, Terror, and Suffering in the Museum of Genocide Victims in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė 2. Visualizing Revisionism: Europeanized Anticommunism at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest / Máté Zombory3. Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism / Stephen M. Norris4. Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Steven Barnes5. Riga's Cheka House: From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? / Katja Wezel Exhibit B: Hall of National Tragedies 6. Sensing the Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past / Stephen M. Norris7. Enforcing National Memory, Remembering Famine's Victims: The National Museum "Holodomor Victims Memorial"/ Daria MattinglyExhibit C: Hall of Everyday Life8. The Czech Museum of Communism: What National Narrative for the Past? / Muriel Blaive 9. Stasiland or Spreewald Pickles? The Battle over the GDR in Berlin's DDR Museum / Stephen M. NorrisExhibit D: Hall of Russian Memory10. Commemorating and Forgetting Soviet Repression: Moscow's State Museum of GULAG History / Jeffrey Hardy11. The Butovskii Shooting Range: History of an Unfinished Museum / Julie Fedor and Tomas Sniegon12. Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: Nostalgia for a Socialist Childhood / Roman Abramov Exhibit E: Rotating Exhibits 13. A Museum of a Museum? Fused and Parallel Historical Narratives in the Joseph Stalin State Museum / Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen14. Between Occupations and Freedoms: Memory, Narrative, and Practice at Vabamu in Tallinn, Estonia / A. Lorraine KaljundIndex
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Indiana University Press Museums of Communism New Memory Sites in Central
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThe chapters do present a series of stimulating (and sometimes provocative) case studies about the situation in particular countries. It is a book which will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers with interests in the post-communist world and more broadly in issues of post-communist memory politics. -- Duncan Light * Eurasian Geography and Economics *Both empirically and theoretically, this volume manages the rare trick of adding up to much more than the sum of its parts; it is essential reading for all scholars and students of Eastern European memory politics and museology. -- Polly Jones - University College, Oxford * The Russian Review *Table of ContentsIntroduction: From Communist Museums to Museums of Communism: An Introduction / Stephen M. NorrisExhibit A: Hall of Genocide, Occupation, and Terror 1. Sovereignty, Terror, and Suffering in the Museum of Genocide Victims in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė 2. Visualizing Revisionism: Europeanized Anticommunism at the House of Terror Museum in Budapest / Máté Zombory3. Inside L'viv's Lonsky Prison: Capturing Ukrainian Memory after Communism / Stephen M. Norris4. Remembering the Gulag in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan / Steven Barnes5. Riga's Cheka House: From a Soviet Place of Terror to a Latvian Site of Remembrance? / Katja Wezel Exhibit B: Hall of National Tragedies 6. Sensing the Uprising: The Warsaw Uprising Museum and the Emotions of the Past / Stephen M. Norris7. Enforcing National Memory, Remembering Famine's Victims: The National Museum "Holodomor Victims Memorial"/ Daria MattinglyExhibit C: Hall of Everyday Life8. The Czech Museum of Communism: What National Narrative for the Past? / Muriel Blaive 9. Stasiland or Spreewald Pickles? The Battle over the GDR in Berlin's DDR Museum / Stephen M. NorrisExhibit D: Hall of Russian Memory10. Commemorating and Forgetting Soviet Repression: Moscow's State Museum of GULAG History / Jeffrey Hardy11. The Butovskii Shooting Range: History of an Unfinished Museum / Julie Fedor and Tomas Sniegon12. Museum of Soviet Arcade Games: Nostalgia for a Socialist Childhood / Roman Abramov Exhibit E: Rotating Exhibits 13. A Museum of a Museum? Fused and Parallel Historical Narratives in the Joseph Stalin State Museum / Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen14. Between Occupations and Freedoms: Memory, Narrative, and Practice at Vabamu in Tallinn, Estonia / A. Lorraine KaljundIndex
£28.80
University of Notre Dame Press Travel In The Middle Ages
Book SynopsisTravel in the Middle Ages is filled with the stories and adventures of those who hazarded hostile landscapes, elements, and peopleout of want or necessityto get from place to place. While most journeys involved very short distances (home to market or village to village), longer trips were not uncommon in the Middle Ages. Clergy were frequently called upon to act as ambassadors, messengers, and overseers to the various monasteries and churches within their jurisdiction. Merchants, agents of the king, and pilgrims were also frequently required to travel. While sharing the fascinating stories of these ordinary wayfarers, Verdon also relates colorful tales of the journeys of notable historical figures such as Marco Polo and Christopher Columbus.Part I of Travel in the Middle Ages addresses the means by which people traveled. This section contains vivid descriptions of modes of conveyance, road systems, sea lanes, tolls, taxes, and even pirates. Knowing the risksTrade Review“General readers, eager to be led on an armchair voyage through medieval times and terrain... [will] find it broadening.” —Choice“Verdon has written a fascinating and informative book that is generously interspersed with examples of medieval travel from a constellation of medieval sources....” —History: Reviews of New Books“Jean Verdon does a comprehensive job of accounting for most motives, methods, costs, durations, dangers, fears, landscapes, seascapes, fantasies, criticisms, and occasions of medieval travel from the fourth-century Bordeaux Pilgrim to Christopher Columbus. He admirably includes Arabic travelers and their wide Asian and African range, notably Ibn Battuta, as well as the great Jewish traveler, Ibrahim ibn Yakub.” —The Historian“Many times the title of a book promises more than its content delivers. Travel in the Middle Ages does just the opposite. Jean Verdon... offers the reader an original and scholarly work that has all the authority of learned and detailed research but that manages to read like an intriguing creative mystery novel. This book offers a rare and informative insight into the life and times of the European Middle Ages. It is recommended for specialist and non-specialist alike.”—Cistercian Studies Quarterly“...[E]ngrossing.... Through Verdon’s extensive and skillful use of historic accounts ... the reader learns how travelers coped." —ForeWord’s Top Ten“An original and scholarly work by Jean Verdon... and ably translated into English by George Holoch. An expertly researched history and thoroughly reader friendly descriptive text offers the students and non-specialist general reader alike, a rare and informative insight into life and times of Europeans several centuries past. Travel in the Middle Ages is seminal and enormously important contribution to Medieval Studies reference collections and reading lists." —Midwest Book Review"Many thanks to George Holoch, whose English translation makes it possible for us to read French medievalist Jean Verdon's book Travel in the Middle Ages. It is a well organized and well composed book. ...every story is told with wit and humor.... This book, like Verdon's other books on premodern pleasure, leisure, night, and drink, reflects the delightful nature of human history." —The Sixteenth Century Journal“…genial, lively, wide ranging… suitable for general readers and undergraduates…” —Historian
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University of Washington Press Art in Seattles Public Spaces
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University of Washington Press The Rise of West Lake
Book SynopsisLovely West Lake, near scenic Hangzhou on China's east coast, has been celebrated as a major tourist site since the twelfth century. Now as then, visitors boat to its islands, stroll through its gardens, worship in its temples, and immortalize it in poetry and painting. Hangzhou and West Lake have long served as icons of Chinese landscape appreciation, literary and artistic expression, and tourism.In the first in-depth English-language study of this picturesque locale, Xiaolin Duan examines the interplay between human enterprise and the natural environment during the Song dynasty (9601279). After the Song lost north China to the Jurchens and the imperial court fled south, a new capital was established at Hangzhou, making the area the national political and cultural center. West Lake became a model for idealized nature, fashioned by the diverse activities of its visitors. Duan shows how engagements in, on, and around West Lake influenced visitors' conceptualization of naturTrade Review"[A]n eminently readable history of place that defies easy categorization with regard to scholarly genre." * Choice *"What is most admirable about this book is the accessible manner in which the subject matter is presented. The author effortlessly selects gems of wisdom, grounded in the realities of the place, and presents this to the readers in an easily digestible way...a key reading in the history of tourism and also in tourism geography, particularly for those interested in topics related to China." * Tourism Geographies: An International Journal of Tourism Space, Place and Environment *"Represents a major contribution to the field of China studies in general, Song dynasty studies in particular, and the fields of urban studies, leisure and tourism, place studies, and material and visual culture" * Chinese Historical Review *"The Rise of West Lake: A Cultural Landmark in the Song Dynasty explains the political, commercial, and cultural developments that led to West Lake’s prominence in the gaze of Chinese sightseers for close to a millennium. But the book does more than just recount the emergence of West Lake as a sightseeing destination...The result is a richly textured analysis that has much to offer historians of Middle Period China (800–1440), but is accessible to non-specialists as well." * Journal of Tourism History *"Xiaolin Duan is great at telling the story of how beautiful West Lake became a tourist destination, political symbol, extension of the imperial capital city of Hangzhou, market place, religious place, poetic symbol, and idealized image and idea." * International Examiner *"The scholarship in the book demonstrates a skillful command of primary sources, a broad knowledge of secondary literature, and attentiveness to literary and artistic conventions. It should be of interest to those who study premodern Chinese literature and culture, art history, urban history, place studies, commercial culture, and early modernity. The book will also serve as a great secondary reading for courses on travel literature, poetry and paintings, early modern history, Chinese cities, and material culture." * Journal of the American Oriental Society *
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WW Norton & Co The Guide to the Art of Rockefeller Center
Book SynopsisThe first easy-to-navigate illustrated guidebook to the wonderful sculptures, murals, bas-reliefs, and mosaics of this Art Deco showplace.
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University of California Press Inventing the Louvre
Book SynopsisFounded in the final years of the Enlightenment, the Louvre became the model for all state art museums subsequently established. This text chronicles the formation of the museum from its origins in the French royal picture collections to its apotheosis during the Revolution and Napoleonic Empire.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction I The Luxembourg Gallery, I750-79 2 D' Angiviller's Louvre Project 3 The Revolutionary Louvre 4 The Musee Central des Arts 5 Alexandre Lenoir and the Museum of French Monuments Conclusion Appendix I Arrangement of Paintings in the Luxembourg Gallery, I750 Appendix II D' Angiviller's Grands Hommes of France, by Salon Appendix III Partial Reconstruction of the Hanging Scheme at the Musee Central des Arts in I797-8 Abbreviations Used in Notes Notes Bibliography Photographic Credits Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press A Travel Guide to the War of 1812 in the
Book SynopsisTourists can step back in time as they travel the same roads and waterways that American and British troops did two centuries ago.Trade ReviewEshelman offers context, directions, maps and other pertinent details for those with a taste for exploring sites related to the war. Richmond Times-Dispatch An exceptional companion volume to the previous book that allows readers an unrivaled view or all the battles and campaigns... If you like your history both immediate and personal, this is the book for you! -- Blaine Taylor Sea Classics A Travel Guide to the War of 1812 in the Chesapeake is a first-rate tool for those exploring the Chesapeake Theater. -- Command Sergeant Major James H. Clifford, USA-Ret. On PointTable of ContentsList of AbbreviationOverviewPart I: Historic Route ToursBritish Invasion Tour (Maryland)Battle of Bladensburg Tour (Maryland)Saving the Declaration of Independence Tour (District of Columbia, Virginia)First Family Flight Tour (District of Columbia, Virginia, Maryland)Battle of North Point Tour (Maryland)Part II: Historic City, Town, and Regional ToursMarylandAnnapolis and U.S. Naval Academy TourBaltimore TourSouthern Maryland TourMaryland Eastern Shore TourHead of the Chesapeake TourFrederick TourVirginiaAlexandria TourGreater Norfolk TourRichmond and Petersburg TourTappahannock TourCentral Virginia TourOther Tidewater Virginia SitesDistrict of ColumbiaWashington, D.C., TourAcknowledgmentsAppendixesA. Suggested WalksB. Suggested Bicycling AreasC. Canoe, Kayak, and Small Boating AreaD. Boat ExcursionsSuggested ReadingIndex
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LSU Press Preserving the Legacy
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Ohio University Press The Literary Guide and Companion to Southern
Book SynopsisIn a series of intriguing routes through the English countryside, Professor Robert Cooper notes those attractions that the casual tourist might unknowingly pass by, such as the house where Dickens wrote A Tale of Two Cities, or the windswept quay where John Fowles’s French Lieutenant’s woman walked.
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Fordham University Press The American Museum of Natural History and How I
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Getty Trust Publications Selections from the Decorative Arts in the J.Paul
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Getty Trust Publications Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum Fascicule 1
Book SynopsisThis historic 1933 publication documents the important collection of Egyptian, Greek and Italian pottery assembled in the early years of what is now the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
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Getty Trust Publications Vincennes and Sevres Porcelain Catalogue of the
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Getty Trust Publications A is for Artist A Getty Museum Alphabet
Book SynopsisThe letters of the alphabet are illustrated for children in details from 26 paintings in the collection of the John Paul Getty Museum. The book also contains reproductions of the 26 paintings.
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Getty Trust Publications French Tapestries and Textiles in the J. Paul
Book SynopsisA survey of the Getty Museum's 17th- and 18th-century French textiles. The book includes lists of artists and weavers, date and place of manufacture, and materials and techniques used. Also included is an accompanying commentary.
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Getty Trust Publications Man Ray in Focus BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF
Book SynopsisThis is a collection of photographs by avant-garde artist and photographer Man Ray, from the John Paul Getty Museum. The photographs date from 1910 to the 1940s, and each image is provided with a commentary. Also included is an edited transcript of a colloquium on Man's career.
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Getty Trust Publications In Focus Hill and Adamson Photographs from the
Book SynopsisThis volume contains photographs from The Getty Museum by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson. During their association Hill and Adamson experimented with some of the earliest calotype processes creating hundreds of portraits, staged dramatic photographs, and landscape images.
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Getty Trust Publications Seeing the Getty Gardens Getty Trust Publications
Book SynopsisThe photographs in these two volumes present an impressionistic view of the Getty Center and its grounds. One book concentrates on the Getty Center site, including its architecture and galleries. The second captures the Center's gardens and landscaping.
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Getty Trust Publications Seeing the Getty Villa
Book SynopsisAimed at the lovers of architecture, photography and ancient art, this souvenir book aimes to capture the architecture and grounds of the renovated Getty Villa. Illustrated with more than seventy colour photographs, it guides the readers through the site - beginning with the cobblestone 'Roman road' through the refurbished Museum building.
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The University of North Carolina Press Tales from the Haunted South
Book SynopsisExplores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of ghost tours, frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the US South. Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Tiya Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain.Trade ReviewShines a valuable light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and on how the ghosts of the past are still with us."" - North Carolina Historical Review""Imagery portrayed within each story . . . will keep readers on the edge of their seats in anticipation of the next sentence, waiting to hear how each narrative plays out."" - Choice""A page-turner. . . . Should serve as a call to historic sites to undertake the hard work of telling complex stories about the past that enable visitors to gain a deeper understanding of the complexity of African American lives under slavery. . . . Highly recommend[ed] . . . to public historians, scholars of slavery and its current-day legacies, and anyone interested in the gothic South."" - Journal of Southern History
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Telling Our Stories Museum of Mississippi
Book SynopsisIn December 2017, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History will open two state-of-the-art museums - the Museum of Mississippi History and the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. This companion book highlights some of the Mississippi stories captured in the two museums. The book also tells the story behind the museum project, honoring those who made these museums possible.
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Cornell University Press Memories of War
Book SynopsisEven in the midst of the Civil War, its battlefields were being dedicated as hallowed ground. Today, those sites are among the most visited places in the United States. In contrast, the battlegrounds of the Revolutionary War had seemingly been forgotten in the aftermath of the conflict in which the nation forged its independence. Decades after the signing of the Constitution, the battlefields of Yorktown, Saratoga, Fort Moultrie, Ticonderoga, Guilford Courthouse, Kings Mountain, and Cowpens, among others, were unmarked except for crumbling forts and overgrown ramparts. Not until the late 1820s did Americans begin to recognize the importance of these places. In Memories of War, Thomas A. Chambers recounts America's rediscovery of its early national history through the rise of battlefield tourism in the first half of the nineteenth century. Travelers in this period, Chambers finds, wanted more than recitations of regimental movements when they visited battlefields; they Trade ReviewSolidly researched and clearly written.... Chambers has moved the debate about public memory into new territory. This is a valuable book that demands respect from historians of the early republic. * Journal of American History *Chambers explores how and why key American battlefields became memorials and tourist attractions, and the potentially powerful psychological and emotional effect these sites can have on visitors evoking the past.... His descriptions demonstrate first-hand knowledge of each place as well as deep research into primary sources. Fascinating and original, this is recommended to scholars and informed readers of American military and cultural history. * Library Journal *Elegantly written and imaginatively researched, Chambers's book draws a welcome connection between constructions of memory and individual encounters with place. The book is especially illuminating when the author grounds visitors' particular perceptions of place in their prevailing hopes and anxieties, such as in his excellent final chapter set amid the bitter section controversy of the 1850s. * William and Mary Quarterly *This fascinating study is ideal reading for the ongoing sesquicentennial of the Civil War and bicentennial of the War of 1812. It offers a close examination of just how overgrown fields and crumbling fortresses came to be reclaimed as objects worthy of preservation and visitation. * The Weekly Standard *Thomas A. Chambers makes a significant contribution to the field of memory studies with his treatment of early American battlefield tourism, commemoration, and preservation. Chambers's study relies heavily on the accounts of early travelers to the battlefields of the Seven Years' War, American Revolution, and War of 1812 in New York, Virginia, South Carolina, and Canada. Memories of War: Visiting Battlegrounds and Bonefields in the Early American Republic is an excellent book that makes an important contribution to understanding the preservation and commemoration of these historic battlefields. * The Journal of Southern History *Thomas Chambers's engaging and illuminating book describes an era when Americans had little interest in either preserving or touring sites, such as Fort Ticonderoga and Yorktown, that have become gems of America's heritage.. The research on which Chambers draws includes diaries, guidebooks, speeches, art, and his own visits to every battlefield from the Seven Years' War through the War of 1812 cited in his book. * The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography *Makes a useful scholarly contribution as an informative excavation of place and memory in the early American republic. * Journal of the Early Republic *Chambers's enthusiasm for visiting and studying battlefields has spurred him to write a thoroughly reseached volume that goes a long way toward explaining how, for better or worse, American nationalism became rooted in blood-soaked ground. * The New England Quarterly *Chambers presents rich descriptions of iconic figures and their battles as well as details of contemporary travel, accommodations, and experiences in voices of time. A fine study accompanied by maps, renderings of landscapes and battlefields, and portraits of protagonists that illustrate how the meaning of historic places and memory changed, as did the motivation for visiting them between the 1760s and 1850s. * Choice *His sources are rich with personal interactions with battlefields: speeches given at dedications, guide books, and perhaps most compellingly, diaries and letters of visitors to the fields.... Chambers not only explains how those of the Early Republic came to construct memories of their past, but he also inspires public historians to think about how contemporary visitors do the same. * The Public Historian *Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. Yorktown's Centennial: The Changing Nature of Battlefield Tourism and CommemorationChapter 1. Accidental Tourists: The Bonefields of Braddock’s Defeat and TiconderogaChapter 2. Forsaken Graves: The Emergence of Memory on the Northern TourChapter 3. Retrieved Relics and New Monuments: Lafayette in YorktownChapter 4. Memory without Tourism: Traces of the Southern CampaignsChapter 5. American Antiquities Are So Rare: Remembering the War of 1812 on the Niagara FrontierChapter 6. The Value of Union: Antebellum Commemoration and the Coming of the Civil WarNotesIndex
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University of Minnesota Press A Natural Curiosity: The Story of the Bell Museum
Book SynopsisA richly illustrated tour of Minnesota’s premier natural history museum after 150 years From its humble start in 1872 as a one-room cabinet of curiosities, the University of Minnesota’s Bell Museum of natural history has grown to be one of the state’s most important cultural institutions. Within its walls are displayed the natural wonders of Minnesota and the world beyond, a standing invitation to explore, understand, and appreciate our natural environment—and, for visitors of all ages, both seasoned observers and curious onlookers, to experience the delight of discovery. A Natural Curiosity is a tale well told, a lively ride across 150 years of important scientific advancement. Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move to its new building, this gorgeously illustrated book chronicles the remarkable discoveries, moments, and personalities that have made the Bell Museum what it is today. Among the stories of ornithologists, botanists, tycoons, and conservationists, readers will encounter the magnificent dioramas created by renowned artist Francis Lee Jaques, the adventures behind some of the Bell’s more curious specimens (like the bones of Philippine orangutans and moonrats, a high-flying moose, and a simple fungi sample that saved a man’s life), and the dramatic accounts of the critical advances made by the museum in wildlife telemetry, conservation biology, and scientific learning—all in defense of our planet’s threatened biodiversity. In a photographic finale, readers will be treated to a tour of the new, reimagined museum, complete with the planetarium that inspired one Minnesota boy to become a NASA astronaut.From its conception as part of a state-mandated geological and natural history survey, to its most recent ventures into technology, environmental science, and DNA sequencing, the Bell Museum has informed, explained, and expanded our relationship to the natural world. Its story, engagingly told in A Natural Curiosity, reveals and explores the profound changes undergone by society, science, and the natural landscape over the museum’s lifetime.Trade Review"The book is beautiful, with full-color pages packed with illustrations and photos."—Racket"Drawing on a wealth of materials unearthed during the museum’s recent move to its new building, this gorgeously illustrated book chronicles the remarkable discoveries, moments, and personalities that have made the Bell Museum what it is today."—The Timberjay"The story of this natural history museum is well told in the lavishly illustrated volume."—Minnesota Alumni"This volume documenting the 150-year history of the University of Minnesota's Bell Museum is a must for your coffee table so you can easily dip into the stories behind our state's only natural history museum."—MSP Home & Design"A Natural Curiosity serves as a well-written and abundantly illustrated introduction to the history of the Bell Museum."—H-Net ReviewsTable of ContentsContentsForewordFord W. BellIntroductionBell Museum Timeline1. A Museum is Born, 1872–1940Documenting Minnesota: The Geological and Natural History SurveyThe Menage Expedition: How Orangutan Bones Landed in the Bell Museum CollectionsJosephine Tilden: Paving the Way for Women in ScienceT. S. Roberts: Naturalist, Doctor, DirectorMaking a Museum for the Public: The Early Dioramas2. Growing an Institution, 1920s–1950sThe Many Talents of Walter BreckenridgeEarly Public Education: Reaching “the whole people . . .”James Ford Bell: The Man Behind the NameHeyday of the Dioramas: Windows into NatureTaking Flight: The Artistic Journey of Francis Lee Jaques3. Wildlife Explorations, 1940s–1980sAt the Poles: Arctic and Antarctic ResearchThe Bride Wore . . . Boots?Migrations: The Life and Times of Dwain WarnerTracking Nature: The Rise of Wildlife TelemetryMystery of the Missing Toads4. The Museum in the Environmental Era, 1960s–1990sTouch and See: Pioneering Hands-On LearningPublic Programs: From Education to EngagementInterpreting Nature: The Student Guide ProgramFrom Student Guide to College ProfessorMaking Movies: Reaching a Bigger AudienceHoneybees on the Roof: Sweetening Science EducationWidening the Inquiry: Bringing together Ecology, Evolution, and BehaviorNature vs Nurture: Frank McKinney and the Evolution of Animal BehaviorMinnesota’s Rarest: Naming the State’s Endangered Flora and FaunaFlight of the Peregrine: Bud Tordoff and the Return of an Endangered SpeciesArt and Natural History: The Evolution of a LegacyScience through the Lens of Art: Resident Artists at the BellChange Comes to the “Eternal” Museum: Temporary and Traveling Exhibits5. Rediscovering the Collections, 1980s–2022Collections offer Clues to Environmental ChallengesA Botanical Treasure: The University of Minnesota HerbariumThe DNA Revolution Comes to the Bell MuseumRe-thinking the Tree of LifeBell Museum Scientists on the Global StageBiodiversity Research: Understanding Life’s Threatened Diversity100 Years Later: Minnesota Updates its Natural History SurveyCollections Go Online6. A Museum for the Twenty-first Century, 1990s–2022Saving an Endangered Museum: Surviving and Thriving in a University SettingFrom the Earth to the Cosmos: The Journey of Minnesota’s PlanetariumThe Ride of His LifeThe Road to a Re-Imagined MuseumDesigning with Nature: The Bell Museum’s New HomeMoving Minnesota: Dioramas in a New HabitatThe Experience: A Journey through TimeAfterwordDenise YoungAcknowledgmentsAppendixesThe Bell DioramasSelect Exhibitions at the Bell MuseumPublications of the Bell MuseumSelect ReferencesContributorsIndex
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd Italy in the German Literary Imagination:
Book SynopsisThe German fascination with Italy, as seen in Goethe's Italian Journey and in a number of literary reactions to it. Italy has long exerted a particular fascination on the Germans, and this has been reflected in German literature, most prominently in Goethe's Italienische Reise but also by numerous other writers who have returned to the topic. This book is concerned with two inextricably linked images - those of the German traveler in Italy and of Italy in German literature in the first third of the 19th century. Goethe's publication of his account nearly three decades after his actual journey was in some measure a vehicle to resist the challenge of a new generation of writers, who in turn would confront what they found to be a questionable, if not altogether false, representation. Hachmeister emphasizes the consequences of the disparity between the reality of Goethe's journey and his depiction of it, taking into consideration also his occasional discomfort with Italy's classical past. She shows how the German predilection for Italy is unique in the larger European cultural context of the Grand Tour, before moving on to chapters that contain readings of Italienische Reise and Goethe's Römische Elegien. Individual chapters follow on Eichendorff's Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts, Platen's Sonette aus Venedig, and Heine's three Italian Reisebilder, each of which is to some degree a reaction to Goethe's work. These chapters investigatehow the individual's reaction to Italy reflects his view of Germany and the author's role in early 19th-century German society. The conclusion offers a short glance at the continued evolution of the German fascination with Italyin the mid- and late nineteenth century. Gretchen Hachmeister received her Ph.D. in German literature from Yale University.Trade Review...thoroughly researched, precisely documented ... and extremely informative about the four poets' lives and oeuvres.... * MONATSHEFTE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Goethe: Anticipation, Hesitation, and Preparation for Italy Rewriting the Journey: Goethe Remembers Italy Römische Elegien Eichendorff and the Romantic Return to Italy Platen's Sonette aus Venedig and the Post-Romantic Aestheticization of Italy Subverting Tradition: Heine and the German Myth of Italy Conclusion Appendix: Sonette aus Venedig -- Comparison of Editions Works Cited Index
£81.00
Boydell & Brewer Ltd Collecting in the Twenty-First Century: From
Book SynopsisAn interdisciplinary volume of essays identifying the impact of technology on the age-old cultural practice of collecting as well as the opportunities and pitfalls of collecting in the digital era. Seminal to the rise of human cultures, the practice of collecting is an expression of individual and societal self-understanding. Through collections, cultures learn and grow. The introduction of digital technology has accelerated this process and at the same time changed how, what, and why we collect. Ever-expanding storage capacities and the accumulation of unprecedented amounts of data are part of a highly complex information economy in which collecting has become even more important for the formation of the past, present, and future. Museums, libraries, and archives have adapted to the requirements of a digital environment, as has anyone who browses the internet and stores information on hard drives or cloud servers. In turn, companies follow the digital footprint we leave behind. Today, collecting includes not only physical objects but also the binary code that allows for their virtual representation on screen. Collecting in the Twenty-First Century identifies the impact of technology, both new and old, on the cultural practice of collecting as well as the challenges and opportunities of collecting in the digital era. Scholars from German Studies, Media Studies, Museum Studies, Sound Studies, Information Technology, and Art History as well as librarians and preservationists offer insights into the most recent developments in collecting practices.Trade Review[T]he theoretical underpinnings, issues raised, and points made throughout the volume are useful beyond their immediate applications. They pose questions of access, data collection, ethics, and economics that will interest scholars of the history of collections, museum studies, digital humanities, library and information sciences, and related fields of literary theory and criticism and media studies. -- J. Decker * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Collecting in the Digital Age - Christoph Zeller 1: Collecting: Defining the Subject - Johannes Endres PART I. Spaces of Collecting 2: Collector as Curator: Collecting in the Post-Internet Age - Boris Groys 3: Should Libraries Still Be Charged with Collecting in a Digital Environment? - Michael Knoche 4: Museums and Collecting as/and Media in the Digital Age - Peter M. McIsaac PART II. Recollection 5: Quality Storage: Collecting as a Technique of Reading - Nikolaus Wegmann 6: Phenomenology of Memory in an Age of Big Data - Clifford B. Anderson 7: Collecting the Cultural Memory of Palmyra - Erin L. Thompson 8: Conservation in the Digital Age - Jessica Walthew PART III. Virtuality 9: Music and the Limits of Collectibility - Rolf J. Goebel 10: Cat Art and Climate Change: Collecting in the Data Anthropocene - Edward Dawson PART IV. Economics 11: Doomed to Collect: Dataveillance as Inner Logic of the Internet - Roberto Simanowski 12: Data Collection in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism - Douglas C. Schmidt Notes on the Contributors Index
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Getty Trust Publications Italian Illuminated Manuscripts
Book SynopsisThis is a stunning tour through eight centuries of manuscript illumination. Known for their stunning displays of artistry and technique, Italian illuminated manuscripts have long been coveted by collection around the world. The J. Paul Getty Museum holds the most recently formed institutional collection of its kind in the United States, yet it spans more than eight centuries and reflects many of the extraordinary achievements of the Italian tradition. Made up of whole manuscripts as well as leaves and cuttings, the Getty collection of Italian illumination contains nearly sixty works and includes the Montecassino Breviary, the Ferrarese Gualenghi-d'Este Hours, and the Roman gradual illuminated by Antonio da Monza for Santa Maria in Aracoeli. Other important acquisitions are one of the finest Bolognese Bibles of the thirteenth century; three leaves from the Laudario of Sant'Agnese, the most ambitious Florentine manuscript from the first half of the fourteenth century; and a missal once owned by the antipope John XXIII. This beautifully illustrated volume presents many splendid examples of Italian painting and illumination. Some are by noted artists such as Girolamo da Cremona, Pacino de Bonaguida, and Pisanello; others are attributed to artists known only by their works, such as the Master of Gerona, who is credited with one of the finest miniatures in the collection.
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