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  • Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights

    Intersections in Theory and Practice

    Edición de Michele Langfield, William Logan, Mairead Nic Craith ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    This theoretically innovative anthology investigates the problematic linkages between conserving cultural heritage, maintaining cultural diversity, defining and establishing cultural citizenship, and enforcing human rights.It is the first publication to address the notions of cultural diversity, cultural heritage and human rights in one volume. Heritage provides the basis of humanity’s rich ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

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  • The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    de Stephanie Dalley ...
    The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognised in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging Garden of Babylon and its location still remains a mystery steeped in shadow and puzzling myths. In this remarkable ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Scandals, Vandals, and da Vincis

    A Gallery of Remarkable Art Tales

    de Harvey Rachlin ...
    The secret histories of the world’s most famous masterpiecesCaravaggios, Rembrandts, Monets—the works of immortal artists such as these are indelibly imprinted in the public mind; they are priceless masterpieces whose beauty, artistry, and emotional impact have inspired admiration, awe, and envy through the centuries. Yet behind many of these brilliant paintings and sculptures are fascinating, ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Heritage

    Critical Approaches

    de Rodney Harrison ...
    Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Re-Imagining the Museum

    Beyond the Mausoleum

    de Andrea Witcomb ...
    Series series Museum Meanings
    Re-Imagining the Museum presents new interpretations of museum history and contemporary museum practices.Through a range of case studies from the UK, North America and Australia, Andrea Witcomb moves away from the idea that museums are always 'conservative' to suggest they have a long history of engaging with popular culture and addressing a variety of audiences. She argues that museums are key ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Inside the Museums

    Toronto's Heritage Sites and their Most Prized Objects

    de John Goddard ...
    Heritage Toronto Book Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction BookIlluminates Toronto’s early history through its small heritage museums.A portrait of William Lyon Mackenzie stares from a mural at Queen subway station, his face as round and orange as a wheel of cheese. He served as Toronto’s first mayor, led the Upper Canada Rebellion of 1837, and was grandfather to William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s ... Leer más

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  • Exhibiting Cultures

    The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

    de Ivan Karp ...
    Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and scholars in art history, folklore, history, and anthropology—represent a variety of stances on the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Curatorial

    A Philosophy of Curating

    Edición de Jean-Paul Martinon ...
    Stop curating! And think what curating is all about. This book starts from this simple premise: thinking the activity of curating. To do that, it distinguishes between 'curating' and 'the curatorial'. If 'curating' is a gamut of professional practices for setting up exhibitions, then 'the curatorial' explores what takes place on the stage set up, both intentionally and unintentionally, by the ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula

    de Karen Exell ...
    Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula is dedicated to the recent and rapid high-profile development of museums in the Arabian Peninsula, focusing on the a number of the Arabian Peninsula states: Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and theUAE. These Gulf states are dynamically involved in the establishment of museums to preserve and , represent their distinct national culture and heritage, as ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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

    The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

    Edición de 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 ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Risk Assessment for Object Conservation

    de Jonathan Ashley-Smith ...
    'Risk Assessment for Object Conservation' reflects Dr Jonathan Ashley-Smith's personal interests and views in areas including materials science, the ethics of restoration, the costs of conservation and the philosophy of museums. This valuable book explains the mechanisms of deterioration of museum artifacts, quantifying the probability that damage will occur and estimating the rate of progress ... Leer más

    $171.99 USD

  • The Nature of Cultural Heritage, and the Culture of Natural Heritage

    Edición de David Lowenthal, Kenneth Olwig ...
    The idea that the heritage of nature is fundamentally cultural is provocative to many, but it is becoming increasingly accepted in the context of heritage preservation. It is argued here that a person’s perspective on natural vs. cultural heritage as a contested patrimony is, to some extent, governed by one’s intellectual and geographical position. In discourses influenced by the natural sciences ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD