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Price: $39.99
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Sale: $11.95
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Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Edwards Park
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Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.09753
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Publication Date: 1994-07-26
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Reading Level: 469
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Description: More than four hundred photographs and reproductions, accompanied by an entertaining text, provide an intriguing glimpse of the richly diverse treasures of the Smithsonian, from art masterpieces to historical memorabilia to technological innovations.
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Price: $44.95
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Sale: $37.25
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Moira G Simpson
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 2001-07-18
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Reading Level: 336
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Description: This new and revised edition looks at the controversy of how traditional western museums have represented non-western cultures. With a new introduction by the author, this book will continue to influence global museum policy.
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Price: $31.95
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Sale: $9.97
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Manufacturer: Manchester University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lou Taylor
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Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 391
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Publication Date: 2004-05-07
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Reading Level: 340
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Description: This book, the sister publication to The Study of Dress History, is the first to detail the history of the collection, exhibition and museum interpretation of dress of all kinds. It examines the earliest European developments in dress history from the mid sixteenth century onwards, and explains the interest in dress collection and display both privately and in museums in Britain, France, the USA and Eastern Europe. Lou Taylor argues that only when women were permitted to be curators of dress within museums did the collection of all kinds of dress find its proper place in our museums of decorative arts, social history and ethnography. Chapters cover the current debates related to dress collecting in such institutions, including discussion of the return of sacred objects, the place of contemporary fashion within museums and issues of the commodification of collections and displays.
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Manufacturer: Archon Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Francis O. Matthiessen
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Publisher: Archon Books
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Publication Date: 1978-01
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Reading Level: 408
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $39.90
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Manufacturer: Archetype Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Pamela Hatchfield
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Publisher: Archetype Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 703
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Publication Date: 2002-05-25
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Reading Level: 204
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Description: The focus of this publication is pollutants in the museum environment, their sources, how they can harm works of art, and what to do about it.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $55.66
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Wendy M.K. Shaw
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.09561
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Publication Date: 2003-06-12
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Reading Level: 280
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Description: Possessors and Possessed analyzes how and why museums--characteristically Western institutions--emerged in the late-nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire. Shaw argues that, rather than directly emulating post-Enlightenment museums of Western Europe, Ottoman elites produced categories of collection and modes of display appropriate to framing a new identity for the empire in the modern era. In contrast to late-nineteenth-century Euro-American museums, which utilized organizational schema based on positivist notions of progress to organize exhibits of fine arts, Ottoman museums featured military spoils and antiquities long before they turned to the "Islamic" collections with which they might have been more readily associated. The development of these various modes of collection reflected shifting moments in Ottoman identity production. Shaw shows how Ottoman museums were able to use collection and exhibition as devices with which to weave counter-colonial narratives of identity for the Ottoman Empire. Impressive for both the scope and the depth of its research, Possessors and Possessed lays the groundwork for future inquiries into the development of museums outside of the Euro-American milieu.
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Manufacturer: Library Professional Publications
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Pauline H. Anderson
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Publisher: Library Professional Publications
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Dewey Decimal Number: 027.8223
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Publication Date: 1985-07
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Reading Level: 260
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Price: $49.95
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Sale: $40.80
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Gerard Corsane
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069
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Publication Date: 2005-01-21
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Reading Level: 392
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Description: This comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the forefront in the field of heritage, museums, and galleries over the past couple of decades. The book provides an ideal starting point for those coming to the study of museums and galleries for the first time, and brings the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community.
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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $22.74
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Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lara Kriegel
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Publisher: Duke University Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 745.20941
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Publication Date: 2007
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Reading Level: 328
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Description: With this richly illustrated history of industrial design reform in nineteenth-century Britain, Lara Kriegel demonstrates that preoccupations with trade, labor, and manufacture lay at the heart of debates about cultural institutions during the Victorian era. Through aesthetic reform, Victorians sought to redress the inferiority of British crafts in comparison to those made on the continent and in the colonies. Declaring a crisis of design and workmanship among the British laboring classes, reformers pioneered schools of design, copyright protections, and spectacular displays of industrial and imperial wares, most notably the Great Exhibition of 1851. Their efforts culminated with the establishment of the South Kensington Museum, predecessor to the Victoria and Albert Museum, which stands today as home to the world’s foremost collection of the decorative and applied arts. Kriegel’s identification of the significant links between markets and museums, and between economics and aesthetics, amounts to a rethinking of Victorian cultural formation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including museum guidebooks, design manuals, illustrated newspapers, pattern books, and government reports, Kriegel brings to life the many Victorians who claimed a stake in aesthetic reform during the middle years of the nineteenth century. The aspiring artists who attended the Government School of Design, the embattled provincial printers who sought a strengthened industrial copyright, the exhibition-going millions who visited the Crystal Palace, the lower-middle-class consumers who learned new principles of taste in metropolitan museums, and the working men of London who critiqued the city’s art and design collections—all are cast by Kriegel as leading cultural actors of their day. Grand Designs shows how these Victorians vied to upend aesthetic hierarchies in an imperial age and, in the process, to refashion London’s public culture.
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Price: $39.95
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Sale: $30.91
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Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jonah Siegel
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Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.094109034
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Publication Date: 2008-03-13
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: What should a museum contain or exclude? Who does a museum hope to attract? What, in fact, is the purpose of a museum? The change from private collection to public museum is a crucial cultural development of the nineteenth century, but one that is bound to raise fundamental questions. The Emergence of the Modern Museum, a unique compendium of original sources, presents a detailed and dynamic account of the development of the institution and its practices during that critical period of inception.
From poignant recollections of visits to stately homes to charged debates about the acquisition of the Elgin Marbles or the establishment of an Indian Museum; from early catalogue entries describing the curiosities discovered by Captain Cook to later ones organizing human skulls according to Darwinian principles--this volume offers a representative sample of the diverse, contentious, and often moving ideas that have shaped the public museum from its earliest history.
The Emergence of the Modern Museum makes available a wide range of material, including proposals for reform laid out in parliamentary papers, essays by influential theorists and curators, and accounts of the experience of museum-going in the popular press. With its original selections, thematic organization, and careful apparatus, this collection makes newly-accessible the cultural moment that defined the complex institution we know today.
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