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DK DK Eyewitness Books: Mummy: Discover the Secrets of Mummies—from the Early Embalming, to Bodies Preserved in
Help your child learn all about mummies using this fact-packed guide. Let your child be an eyewitness to the amazing secrets of ancient mummies from different countries and cultures—from the chemicals Egyptians used to embalm the dead of Egypt to the artifacts buried with bodies to take into the afterlife; let your child learn all about the varied and fascinating ways people have preserved the dead in bogs, sand, and ice.The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures.
£15.76
Thames & Hudson Ltd Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium
From ‘cabinets of curiosities’ to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museum – display, archiving, classification, storage, curatorship – which they have then appropriated, mimicked and reinterpreted in their own work. Citing a huge range of examples, James Putnam shows not only the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made their works into simulations of the museum, but also how they have questioned the role of museums, observed their practices, intervened in them and helped to redefine them.
£17.95
