Museum Studies

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the c...

Reducere. Turkey has gone through significant transformations over the last century--from the Ottoman Empire and Young Turk era to the Republic of today--but...

Reducere. The final volume in a full survey of the work of John Singer Sargent, covering his late watercolors, designs for the Boston murals, and work as an ...

Reducere. This volume brings together an international team of contributors to reconnect field research on the shaft tombs of western Mexico (ca. 300 B.C.-A....

Reducere. Since the 1990s, Thomas Struth has been one of the best-known and internationally successful photographers of the German art scene. Struth studied ...

Reducere. The majesty of Earth's most magnificent features was the domain of Wilson Hurley (1924-2008). In paintings of natural wonders throughout the galaxy...

Author David Saunders, former keeper of conservation and scientific research at the British Museum, explores how to balance the conflicting goals o...

Reducere. Museums serve to help us understand the past and navigate our future--as individuals, as societies, and as a global community. A careful and accura...

Since cinema has entered the digital era, its very nature has come under renewed scrutiny. Countering the "death of cinema" debate, Film History as...

Reducere. Long regarded as one the leading texts in museology, Introduction to Museum Work in now thoroughly revised and updated. While citing recent changes...

Reducere. PROSEIn 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented t...

Reflections on Critical Museology: Inside and Outside Museums offers a reflective and reflexive re-assessment of museum studies and the first wide-...

Reducere. Because of his recourse to language, photography and systems of information, On Kawara is often described as a key figure in the history of Concept...

Between the countless works of art in the world and numerous laws on their care, the task of deciphering correct procedure can seem daunting. In Ar...

Reducere. Making History: IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts is a unique contribution to the fields of visual culture, arts education, and American Indi...

Fostering Empathy through Museums features fifteen case studies with clear take-away ideas, and lessons learned by vividly illustrating a spectrum ...

Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Co...

DescriptionThe UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and na...

In a series of richly detailed studies from Britain, Australia and North America, Bennett investigates how 19th and 20th century museums, fairs and...

Reducere. DescriptionOut of the chaos and pain of Charlottesville, museum professionals, public historians, and community leaders must move quickly to face t...

Riot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influen...

This volume exposes at once the nature of World War I and its depth and duration in personal lives. Contributors, including historians, museum prof...

* Examines the most important issues at the heart of contemporary debates in museum studies. * Includes original essays by noted artists, curators,...

Sharon Turner (1768-1847) practised as a solicitor in London, but as a young man he had become involved in the study of Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic l...

In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its cre...

Reducere. First published in 1955, with a revised edition appearing five years later, H. G. Adler's Theresienstadt, 1941-1945 is a foundational work in the f...

Reducere. Approaching the Holocaust in your classroom can be a difficult, often daunting task. This practical guide for English and social studies teachers f...

Reducere. A handsome presentation of Scottish artist Sarah Graham's up-close drawings of insects and plantsIn her majestic drawings, London-based artist Sara...

The 1920s and 1930s saw the birth of modernism in the United States, a new aesthetic, based on the principles of the Bauhaus in Germany: its mergin...

DescriptionExhibitions for Social Justice assesses the state of curatorial work for social justice in the Americas and Europe today. Analyzing best...

Reducere. DescriptionThe only building the artist designed, Austin is Kelly's most enduring legacyIn January 2015, the renowned American artist Ellsworth Kel...

Winner of the 2018 Ontario Museum Association Award of Excellence Creating Exhibits that Engage: A Manual for Museums and Historical Organizations ...

Reassembling the Collection presents innovative approaches to the study of historical and contemporary engagements between museums and the various ...

Rethinking Research in the Art Museum presents an original and radical perspective on how research can function as an agent of change in art museum...

Reducere. DescriptionCo-published in Association with the Victoria and Albert Museum, LondonThis book is a timely and engaging introduction to the way that a...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is a thought-provoking look at Native American stories, cultural institutions, and ways of knowing, and what they can teach us abou...

The Italian Renaissance was a golden age for bronze sculpture, both on a grand scale--such as Ghiberti's Gates of Paradise, or Cellini's Perseus--a...

Surveying the American artist's multimedia works on paper from 1964 to the presentAmerican artist Louise Fishman's (born 1939) physical and process...

This collection of 36 monographs serves as a well-rounded introduction to the Law of Thelema. ?Lapis Philosophorum? redefines the magical philosoph...

Reducere. Samuel Palmer (1805-1881) was one of the leading British landscape painters of the 19th century. Inspired by his mentor, the artist and poet Willia...

DescriptionSecond Samuel includes some of the most well-known and theologically layered episodes in the Old Testament, such as the Lord's establish...

An award-winning cultural history of how we experience the world through art, film and architectureAtlas of Emotion is a highly original endeavor t...

DescriptionWondering what a museum director actually does? About to start your first director's job? Looking for guidance in starting up a museum o...

DescriptionLGBT individuals and families are increasingly visible in popular culture and local communities; their struggles for equality appear reg...

The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups ...

Following the publication of his revised translations in The Apostolic Fathers in English, 3rd ed., Michael Holmes, a leading expert on these texts...

Reducere. Roughly 1.7 million people died in Cambodia from untreated disease, starvation, and execution during the Khmer Rouge reign of less than four years ...

Reducere. From planetary movements and the exploration of our solar system to black holes and dark matter, this comprehensive reference simplifies all aspect...

"A survey of the current state of study of indigenous Caribbean people by archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists. . . . Emphasizes that ev...

Reducere. Gorgeous contemporary reconstructions and reinterpretations of the rich knitting traditions of Iceland. The Textile Museum in Blönduós in northern ...

Scholars from diverse disciplines tackle the many questions posed by the work and life of abstraction pioneer Hilma af KlintIn this thorough critic...

Reducere. "The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum wi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nina SimonVisitor participation is a hot topic in the contemporary world of museums, art galleries, science centers, librar...

Reducere. "Incredible amount of detail about all those kickers from the past, including an appendix with comprehensive model-year information."--WoodenBoat "...

Reducere. ``Johann Kohl was an educated, urbane, and well-trained German geographer, ethnologist, and popular writer. During his visit with the Lake Superior...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Emma CoffieldIllustration(s): 18 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and whiteNumber of pages: 23...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Nina SimonPreface by: Jon MosconeWhat do the London Science Museum, California Shakespeare Theater, and ShaNaNa have in com...

Reducere. Collected and highly valued all over the world, Navajo weaving has been the subject of many aesthetic and historic studies. Grounded in archival re...

Reducere. This book examines the historical context of museums, their collections, and the objects that form them. Susan M. Pearce probes the psychological a...

Reducere. Should Christians even bother with the modern wing at the art museum? After all, modern art and artists are often caricatured as rabidly opposed to...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Buffalo Bill Center of the West is a fount of major collections of art from some of the most renowned painters and sculptors of the ...

Fiction. Jewish Studies. Days before his thirty-third birthday, Jacob Paul, an ordinary New Yorker, learns that his life is the dream of a man bein...

Reducere. In closely-read case studies, we encounter artworks by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Ana Mendieta, Louise Bourgeois, Alina Szapocznikow, Anna Maria Maiolin...

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the ...

Reducere. Teacher resource book for Ohio and Indiana Native American history lessons. Over 250 pages of activities, worksheets, projects, puzzles, and readin...

Reducere. Explores the prominent role of Highland Scots in the slavery industry of the cotton, sugar and coffee plantations of the 18th and 19th centuries. L...

DescriptionCoinciding with a major exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, this anthology of essays and reflections casts a discursiv...

A general introduction to the art and architecture of Greece, the Cycladic islands and Crete, from c.3300 - 1000 BC. The authors have been highly s...

Reducere. More Screams, Different Deserts is another invitation to join Sue on her adventures in cross-cultural living and biblical studies that have helped ...

DescriptionIn 1910 and 1914, a two-volume study of New York's native birds was issued as part of the State Museum's annual report. A vast catalog o...