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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $2.94
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Kenneth Lapatin
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 930
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Publication Date: 2003-12-24
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: In Mysteries of the Snake Goddess, Kenneth Lapatin traces the murky origins (and seriously debunks the authenticity of) "the most refined and precious" surviving object of Minoan art. The gold-and-ivory figure, now residing in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, was discovered in the early 20th century by renowned archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans. Other, related figures (of equally dubious origin) retain pride of place in several North American and European museums. They are almost certainly forgeries, according to Lapatin, or at best, "neither entirely genuine nor fully fake." This is not a crime story but rather a tale of well-meaning overextrapolation. Evans, and others, took kernels of evidence to bake a large loaf of an idealized, matriarchal Cretan civilization. In short, Evans's desire to believe clouded his scientific caution. As well, Lapatin gently points out that very often our re-creations of the past are influenced by the ideas, mores, and, even, inadequacies of our present. His book is one of calm, inviting erudition that, mercifully, avoids the mean wrangling so common in academia. --H. O'Billovich
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Manufacturer: Amer Assn for State & Local
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Edward Porter Alexander
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Publisher: Amer Assn for State & Local
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069
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Publication Date: 1978-06
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Reading Level: 308
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Price: $52.95
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Sale: $34.80
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Manufacturer: Sage Publications Ltd
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Susan Pearce
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Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 1998-03-23
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: This clear and lively book provides an illuminating analysis of collecting as a major social and individual phenomenon in contemporary society. The book is based on the understanding of collecting practice, rather than the collections themselves. It highlights the significance of collecting in relation to the cultural process, popular culture, contemporary attitudes to material culture and the idea of collecting as a postmodern activity. Susan Pearce presents both quantitative and qualitative information from a broad spectrum of contemporary collectors and relates their collecting to broader issues of consumption, gender, family and social class. Accessible and original, Collecting in Contemporary Practice will be of interest to students, academics and professionals in museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology and material culture studies.
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Sale: $64.89
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Manufacturer: One-Off Press
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Karsten Schubert
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Publisher: One-Off Press
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Publication Date: 2000-07-01
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Reading Level: 160
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Price: $42.95
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Sale: $38.64
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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: Anna Booy
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 346.410482
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Publication Date: 2000-08-04
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Reading Level: 136
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Description: This is the indispensable reference tool for everyone in museums and galleries who has to deal with copyright. It is a user-friendly resource which comprehensively addresses all aspects of copyright law and usage.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $45.00
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Manufacturer: American Library Association
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Martin R. Kalfatovic
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Publisher: American Library Association
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Dewey Decimal Number: 004
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Publication Date: 2002-01
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Reading Level: 117
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Description: It's no secret that well-executed exhibits in libraries and museums can make attendance numbers skyrocket. Dynamic exhibits not only provide information and entertainment for your existing customers, but they are also opportunities to reach out to new customers and to widen your market. A great exhibit can be the hook that brings people in the door for the first time. Creating a Winning Online Exhibition will help you to do just that - conceive, design, and execute a compelling online exhibition. Different than a digital collection, an online exhibition is a selective presentation of objects organized around a thematic and narrative structure. Digital librarian Martin Kalfatovic takes you through the process of developing an exhibit that will attract users, increase your visibility, and showcase your collection and services. With case studies of successful online exhibitions, sample artwork and screen shots, up-to-date information on mark-up languages such as HTML and XML, and discussion of online databases and software programs, you will be equipped with all you need to pull off a winning exhibition. Also included are helpful samples of: * Project proposals * Exhibition scripts *
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Price: $125.00
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Sale: $116.28
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Manufacturer: Routledge
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Andrea Witcomb
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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: 2003-02-14
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: Through a range of case- studies, including studies from the UK, North America and Australia, this book 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. Andrea Whitcomb argues that museums are key mediators between high and popular culture and between government, media practitioners, cultural policy-makers and museums professionals. The book also analyses links between museums and the media, looks at the role of museums in cities and discusses the effects on museums of cultural policies.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $29.18
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: GREENSPAN A
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 945.54252
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Publication Date: 2002-03
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Thousands of people each year experience life in eighteenth-century Virginia by visiting Colonial Williamsburg, one of America's premier historical restorations. That is not what the founders had in mind when they opened this museum in 1932. Their aim was to build a shrine to promote American valuesæindividualism, democracy, and representative governmentæat a time when they felt these beliefs were being eroded. As Anders Greenspan demonstrates in this lucid analysis, Colonial Williamsburg's evolving presentation of history offers an excellent means of understanding many social and political changes in twentieth-century America.
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Manufacturer: Academic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: George Hangay::Michael Dingley
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Publisher: Academic Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.53
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Publication Date: 1985-12-28
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Reading Level: 323
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Description: From the Preface:
The primary aims of this book are to highlight the main aspects of the preparator's work, describe as many techniques as practical, and guide the reader to the relevant literature, from which more information can be gained.
To prepare a book of this kind, one must draw heavily on the published and unpublished research of many other workers, present and past. As it is not possible to describe every technique which may be practiced in a biological museum, lists of useful publications are provided at the end of the chapters.
In most cases when animal preparation is discussed, the grouping is not governed by any of the accepted scientific systems but rather by preparational requirements.
The preparation of specimens for natural history and building exhibitions has unlimited possibilities. The advances in technology are strongly felt in the museum field. We hope that this book will help the reader to explore ideas, learn techniques and understand the relationship between science and craft involved in the creative process that is the work of the preparator.
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $13.50
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Manufacturer: Monacelli
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Victoria Newhouse
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Publisher: Monacelli
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Dewey Decimal Number: 727.709045
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Publication Date: 1998-03-01
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Reading Level: 208
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Description: Should art museums be designed to surprise and delight or to instruct and uplift? Should the museum building be a temple of art or an entertainment complex? Architectural historian Victoria Newhouse considers these and other questions about museums in her book Towards a New Museum. Newhouse examines dozens of art museums built during the 1980s and 1990s and describes how the buildings fit into the history of ideas about the proper function of museums. Some museums are like cabinets of curiosities, a hodgepodge of items the collector assembles to delight viewers. Other designers of museums strive to provide a neutral environment that does not distract viewers from the art. However, some architects believe that hanging paintings on white walls in galleries separates the art from its context. Architects and artists have grappled with these ideas and created some stunning and outlandish museums in recent years. Newhouse describes the sinuous, titanium-coated new Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, and the fractured forms of the Fredrick R. Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis. She writes about the artist Donald Judd, who bought most of Marfa, Texas, and made it a museum. These are bold and sometimes beautiful museums. Newhouse wisely includes plenty of good pictures and diagrams of each building. In different segments of the book, Newhouse discusses: private museums, museums that function as temples of art, museums devoted to one artist, and museums designed by artists. She also devotes a chapter to the unfortunate impact of museum politics on design. This chapter, "Wings That Don't Fly," illustrates some of the more vivid design disasters in recent history, including the "toilet tank" addition to the Guggenheim in New York. Art historians, architects, and people who are connected to museums will find this book an instructive, thoughtful overview of what's going on with museums today. --Jill Marquis
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