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“stephen e weil”

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  • Rethinking the Museum and Other Meditations

    by Stephen E. Weil ...
    In these 19 insightful and frequently witty meditations, Stephen E. Weil examines the purposes and functions of the museum in the late 20th century, proposing museums make encounters with a variety of visitors more central to their operation. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Curator's Handbook: Museums, Commercial Galleries, Independent Spaces

    by Adrian George ...
    A step-by-step guide to every aspect of putting on an art exhibition, with tips from a range of influential curators.The Curator’s Handbook is the essential handbook for curators and curatorial students, mapping every stage of the process of putting on an exhibition, no matter how traditional the venue, from initial idea to final installation.An introduction explores curatorial work from its ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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    The Rise and Fall of Young British Art

    by Gregor Muir ...
    These days artists like Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin are major celebrities. But Gregor Muir knew them at the start; his unique memoir chronicles the birth of Young British Art. Muir, YBA’s ‘embedded journalist’, happened to be in Shoreditch and Hoxton before Jay Jopling arrived with his White Cube Gallery, when this was still a semi-derelict landscape of grotty pubs and squats. There he witnessed, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Hokusai

    by Sandra Forty ...
    Series series Minibooks
    Katsushika Hokusai is the most famous of a sequence of names used by a versatile and long-lived Japanese artist who worked in many genres and schools, evolving a unique style that made him known then as well as now as a true master. He was an unusual and restless man who slipped boundaries and made fresh connections, yet never sought great wealth or position. Hokusai produced over 30,000 different ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice

    Decolonizing Engagement

    by Bryony Onciul ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Current discourse on Indigenous engagement in museum studies is often dominated by curatorial and academic perspectives, in which community voice, viewpoints, and reflections on their collaborations can be under-represented. This book provides a unique look at Indigenous perspectives on museum community engagement and the process of self-representation, specifically how the First Nations Elders of ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West

    The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

    Edited by Louise Tythacott ...
    Series series The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
    In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Doing Museology Differently

    by Duncan Grewcock ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    One might believe that museum studies is a stable field of academic inquiry based on a set of familiar institutional forms and functions. But as institutions museums have never been stable or singular, and neither has the discipline of museum studies. Museum studies as a field of academic inquiry has received little critical attention. One result of this neglect has arguably been a lack of ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Designing for the Museum Visitor Experience

    by Tiina Roppola ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Exhibition environments are enticingly complex spaces: as facilitators of experience; as free-choice learning contexts; as theaters of drama; as encyclopedic warehouses of cultural and natural heritage; as two-, three- and four-dimensional storytellers; as sites for self-actualizing leisure activity. But how much do we really know about the moment-by-moment transactions that comprise the intricate ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Museums and Photography

    Displaying Death

    by Elena Stylianou, Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museums and Photography combines a strong theoretical approach with international case studies to investigate the display of death in various types of museums—history, anthropology, art, ethnographic, and science museums – and to understand the changing role of photography in museums. Contributors explore the politics and poetics of displaying death, and more specifically, the role of photography ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums

    by Margaret Tali ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
    This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Difficult knowledge is proposed as a way of dealing with absence ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Reflections of a Culture Broker

    A View from the Smithsonian

    by Richard Kurin ...
    Is culture brokered like stocks, real estate, or marriage? In this engaging book, Richard Kurin shows that cultures are also mediated and indeed brokered by countries, organizations, communities, and individuals -- all with their own vision of the truth and varying abilities to impose it on others. Drawing on his diverse experiences in producing exhibitions and public programs, Kurin challenges ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture

    Edited by Juliette Fritsch ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museum Gallery Interpretation and Material Culture publishes the proceedings of the first annual Sackler Centre for Arts Education conference at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. The conference launched the annual series by addressing the question of how gallery interpretation design and management can help museum visitors learn about art and material culture. The book features a ... Read more

    $82.99 USD