Museum Texts

Photographs of one hundred objects from Cornwall's Museum of Witchcraft and Magic, accopanied by informative texts from Sara Hannant and Museum dir...

A documentation, using latest technologies, of the Late and Ptolemaic Period anthropoid sarcophagi housed in Cairo's Grand Egyptian Museum The indi...

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

Featuring texts by leading scholars of the history and culture of medieval Armenia, this book offers an in-depth look at its art, trade, and religi...

Reducere. James Morris Webb argues that the black man was the father of civilization, born in the land of Egypt, and that the different branches of science a...

Reducere. In 1967, for her first museum retrospective, Louise Nevelson (1899-1988) was given carte blanche to transform the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis Unive...

Reducere. Home to over 20, 000 mind-boggling anatomic specimens, plaster casts, wax models, and paintings, the Mutter Museum, founded in 1858, is part of the...

DescriptionA tribute to the final building in Berlin's "Museum Island, " designed by David Chipperfield and photographed by Thomas StruthBritish ar...

Reducere. Former Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, E. A. Wallis Budge (1857-1934) was one of the great Egyptologists of the ...

DescriptionA stunning guide to the treasures housed within the Yale Babylonian Collection, presenting new perspectives on the society and culture o...

Reducere. Contested Histories in Public Space brings multiple perspectives to bear on historical narratives presented to the public in museums, monuments, te...

DescriptionThe anthology, the first of its kind, includes 32 texts on contemporary prints and printmaking written from the mid-1980s to the present...

W. G. Lambert's line drawings of cuneiform tablets from the British Museum, together with his meticulous editions of their contents, form a contrib...

Reducere. Today's leading poets and writers--from Anne Carson to Roxane Gay--respond to modern and contemporary masterpiecesIn this book, 26 internationally ...

Reducere. This monograph, published on the occasion of the Aspen Art Museum exhibition of Rodney McMillian, showcases a comprehensive survey of the artist's ...

Reducere. The book Pre-Sargonic Period (2700-2350 BC) provides editions of all known royal inscriptions of kings who ruled in ancient Mesopotamia down to the...

Reducere. This volume offers a comprehensive look at the career of Mika Rottenberg (born 1976). Each chapter is devoted to one of the major videos/installati...

A richly illustrated, expansive mid-career survey of the stand-out American artist's pioneering and influential work Published to coincide with a m...

Reducere. A narrative of resistance and resilience spanning seven decades in the life of a tireless advocate for Indigenous language preservation. Life histo...

Reducere. Rethinking exhibition practices and histories in China and Southeast Asia.This book is the result of various ongoing assembly platforms linked toge...

Reducere. With Zohar Studios, Stephen Berkman has perfected the rare and extremely difficult antique photographic process known as "wet collodion." Made with...

Reducere. Ink, Silk & Gold explores the dynamic and complex traditions of Islamic art through more than 115 works of art drawn from the collection of the Mus...

Contributor(s): Editor: Kristine KhouriEditor: Rasha SaltiThe International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized...

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

DescriptionThe Livre des faits de Jacques de Lalaing (Book of the Deeds of Jacques de Lalaing), a famous Flemish illuminated manuscript, relays the...

Reducere. Translated and Edited from Manuscripts in the British Museum by S. Liddell MacGregor Mathers. One of the most famous of all magical textbooks. The ...

Reducere. A Book of Shadows is a book containing religious texts and instructions for magical rituals found within the Neo-pagan religion of Wicca. The first...

Description'To express in the language of Sufism, that is, Islamic mysticism, some of the universal truths which lie at the heart of all religions'...

Born in Iran and based in Berlin, German artist Nairy Baghramian explores and reflects on formal languages of both modernism and post-minimalism. O...

DescriptionCapturing the highlights of a major V&A exhibition, this stunning volume celebrates the House of Dior from its foundation in 1947 to the...

Reducere. A collection of the contemporary texts about Thomas Gainsborough, a leading British portraitist and landscape painter in the eighteenth century. Th...

Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Stron...

Traces fashions from 1870 to the present along a conceptual, disruptive, and nontraditional timeline of fashion history Fashion not only reflects a...

An innovative retrospective look at the work of one of America's most iconic artists, utilizing the concepts of mirroring and doubling, which have ...

A new consideration of extraordinary art created by Black artists during the mid-20th centuryMy Soul Has Grown Deep considers the art-historical si...

In 1968, Robert Smithson reacted to Michael Fried's influential essay "Art and Objecthood" with a series of works called non-sites. While Fried des...

The world's most iconic buildings are made accessible and exciting for young readers in this colorful introduction to architecture that changed the...

DescriptionA fresh exploration of Native American art that positions the work within the broader context of North American art history This landmar...

Best known for his luscious paintings of pies and ice-cream cones, American artist Wayne Thiebaud (born 1920) has been an avid and prolific draftsm...

A revelatory look at the influential and enigmatic designer behind Comme des Garcons The great pantheon of fashion designers produces only a handfu...

DescriptionBill Viola (b. 1951) is one of today's premier video installation artists whose apparently straightforward imagery belies a decades-long...

Reducere. Points + Lines: Diagrams and Projects for the City is a book of New York architect Stan Allen's writings and projects that propose new architectura...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Egyptian Book of the Dead is an ancient collection of spells designed to guide the departed through the perils of the underworld, ul...

Reducere. Red Power is a classic documentary history of the American Indian activist movement. This landmark second edition considerably expands and updates ...

Reducere. The story Raven and the Box of Daylight, which tells how Raven transformed the world and brought light to the people by releasing the stars, moon, ...

The first publication to examine the pioneering designer and prolific collector who led Tiffany & Co. to creative and commercial success A silversm...

This beautifully designed book is a celebration of one of the world's most creative, dynamic and fascinating cities: Tokyo. It spans 400 years, wit...

Reducere. Compiled from original manuscripts and fragments in the British Museum Library, Joseph Peterson's new presentation is the most complete and accurat...

Reducere. Epic battles, hideous monsters and a host of petty gods--the world of Classical mythology continues to fascinate and inspire. Heroes like Herakles,...

Reducere. "One of my favourite comics of all time."-Rich Johnston, Bleeding Cool "No discussion of art and writing in comics would be complete without mentio...

Reducere. Jean-Michel Basquiat painted Defacement (The Death of Michael Stewart) on the wall of Keith Haring's studio in 1983 to commemorate the death of a y...

The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid...

'Almost a prerequisite for any serious study of Sufism in European languages': this was the verdict of Seyyed Hossein Nasr in his review of the fir...

Reducere. "The Book of the Dead" is one of the most famous texts to survive from the ancient world. Its original name in Egyptian is literally translated as ...

Reducere. The Egyptian Book of the Dead is unquestionably one of the most influential books in all history. Containing the ancient ritual to be performed for...