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Displaying records 141 through 150 of 2597 |
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $14.26
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Manufacturer: Winterthur
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dwight Lanmon
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Publisher: Winterthur
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 790.132
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Publication Date: 1999-07-01
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Reading Level: 123
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Description: What do Honus Wagner baseball cards, Queen Anne side chairs, and 19th-century ceramic lions have in common? At first glance, very little. Yet Evaluating Your Collection sets out to discuss this wide range of things that people collect, in order to guide them to a greater level of knowledge.
Is an object really worth the price? How does one know what to look for? Can one recognize fakes and invisible repairs? What about color, finish, and form? In 1961, Charles F. Montgomery, Winterthur's first director, articulated a system for educating the eye and appraising the quality of an object. His fourteen points of connoisseurship, along with additions by Winterthur curators, conservators, and educators, form an unbeatable system. Understanding them, and how they interrelate, equips readers with a basic expertise necessary to operate in the world of antiques.
Compact, reader-friendly, and illustrated in full color with objects largely from Winterthur's outstanding collection, this and future series volumes provide invaluable advice. Armed with tips from the experts, your trips to estate auctions, flea markets, or your grandmother's attic will never be the same.
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Price: $36.00
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Sale: $27.23
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Manufacturer: American Association of Museums
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: American Association of Museums
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069
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Publication Date: 1998-03
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Reading Level: 196
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Description: Media - the confluence of words, images, and sounds primarily through film, video, and interactive computer technology - are an increasingly popular presence in museums. But what are the effects upon the visitor and the museum itself? Experts discuss the philosophy, use, and misuse of media, both from within the museum - the professional's perspective - and from without - the media producer's viewpoint. Specific examples help directors, curators, designers, producers, and others to choose media options for their own institutions.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $14.35
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Manufacturer: University of Toronto Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lovat Dickson
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 971
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Publication Date: 1993-08-03
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Reading Level: 214
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Price: $32.50
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Sale: $32.49
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Manufacturer: Wallflower Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Wallflower Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 791
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Publication Date: 2008-03-01
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Reading Level: 180
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Price: $45.00
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Sale: $38.89
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jennifer L. Eichstedt::Stephen Small
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Publisher: Smithsonian Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.043092
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Publication Date: 2002-10
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Reading Level: 312
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Description: How is slavery presented at the public and private plantation museums in the American South, almost 150 years after the Civil War? Jennifer L. Eichstedt and Stephen Small investigated this question in Virginia, Georgia, and Louisiana by touring more than one hundred plantation museums; twenty locations organized and run by African Americans; and eighty general history sites. Their findings indicate that the experience and legacy of slavery is still inadequately presented within the larger discourse surrounding race, racism, and national identity. The vast majority of sites construct narratives of history that valorize a white elite of the pre-emancipation South and trivialize the experience of slavery for both enslaved people and their enslavers. Through systematic analysis of richly textured data, the authors have developed a typology of primary representational/discursive strategies used to discuss slavery and the enslaved. The authors clearly demonstrate how these strategies are linked to representations and practices in the larger social and political arenas. Eichstedt and Small found counter narratives at sites organized and staffed by African Americans, and a small number of white-organized sites have made efforts to incorporate African American experiences of slavery as part of their presentations. But the predominant framework of the "white-centric exhibition narrative" persists, and the authors draw from contemporary literature on racialization, museums, cultural studies, and collective memory to make a case for public debate and intervention.
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Price: $40.95
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Sale: $28.19
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Manufacturer: Wiley-Blackwell
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.01
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Publication Date: 1998-07-07
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Reading Level: 248
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Description: Museums are key cultural loci of our times. They are symbols and sites for the playing out of social relations of identity and difference, knowledge and power, theory and representation. These are issues at the heart of contemporary anthropology, sociology and cultural studies.
This volume brings together original contributions from international scholars to show how social and cultural theory can bring new insight to debate about museums. Analytical perspectives on the museum are drawn from the anthropology and sociology of globalization, time, space and consumption, as well as from feminism, psychoanalysis, experimental ethnography and literary theory. These perspectives are brought to bear on questions of museums' changing role and position in the representation of the nation-state, of community, and of gender, class and ethnicity.
The examples in this book are drawn from different kinds of museum around the world, and include significant controversial and experimental exhibitions; the Enola Gay at the Smithsonian; feminist exhibitions in Scandinavia; the National Museum of Sri Lanka; Victorian art at the Tate; the representation of race at Colonial Williamsburg and of colonialism and identity in Canada.
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Manufacturer: Taschen
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Oliviero Toscani
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Publisher: Taschen
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Dewey Decimal Number: 909.825
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Publication Date: 2000-10
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Reading Level: 768
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Description: Dirt cupcake mix, as American as apple pie. Nipple lightener from Japan. Tick juice, indispensable in Venezuela for black magic love rituals. Sunglasses from Zimbabwe with shades cut from plastic juice bottles and no lenses. Korean disposable straw sandals made especially for mourners and corpses. Is this stuff cool or what? But wait--there's more. Flip through this book in search of international weirdness, and it's a pretty sure bet you'll wind up absorbing some sobering information about sex, death, destruction, poverty, and the arrogant ways of multinationals. Under the guise of an ultrahip consumer's guide to the world's nifty stuff--divided into sections labeled "Food," "Fashion," "Animals," "Body," "Soul" and "Leisure"--1000 Extra/Ordinary Objects is a subversive crusader for human rights and ecological awareness. Sure, you can find out how to buy your very own Dom Perignon-flavored sorbet or a CD of "Music for Healthy Pets." But you'll also stumble upon objects like the cute little bright green Russian-made PFM-1 antipersonnel mine, "a favorite toy of generations of Afghan children" punished for their curiosity by a double whammy of liquid explosive and tiny blades. On other pages, seemingly innocuous objects--like the sweetly lumpy doll couples made of tree bark by Elliot Chitungu of Zimbabwe--turn out to have a bitter subtext. (Chitungu, who is gay, makes all his couples heterosexual; in his country, homosexuality is a criminal offense.) Other objects are examples of savvy recycling, like the paper made in Malawi from elephant dung and recycled cardboard. With straightforward descriptions in both English and French, unblinking photographs of young people modeling even the most outré objects, and a Yellow Pages that includes information about little-known charitable organizations worldwide, this is a fun book with a heart of gold. --Cathy Curtis
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $26.37
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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: David Pinniger
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Publisher: Archetype Books
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 501
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Publication Date: 2001-08-25
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Reading Level: 116
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Description: A working guide to help people recognise insect, rodent and bird pests and take practical steps to prevent and control damage to collections.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $24.95
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Manufacturer: Pallas Athene
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jonathan Conlin
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Publisher: Pallas Athene
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709
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Publication Date: 2007-05-15
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Reading Level: 464
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Description: Ever since its conception in 1824, the National Gallery has been part of British national life to an extent unmatched by any other great museum. The first history of the Gallery ever published, this unique account traces the development of an institution whose superlative collections often set the pace in art history, but whose dependence on parliamentary funding regularly implicated it in political debates surrounding education, social cohesion, and national heritage. The story of the Gallery's holdings offers an intriguing opportunity to follow the changes in taste and connoisseurship that have helped create the Old Master canon; and the design, history, and location of the building itself also receive close attention. Copiously illustrated with 60 of its most significant paintings, as well as previously unpublished architectural plans, cartoons, and other images, this is an insightful account of a British treasure. |
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Manufacturer: St Martins Pr
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Douglas J. Preston
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Publisher: St Martins Pr
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Edition: 1st
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.9508
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Publication Date: 1986-11
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: Dinosaurs in the Attic is a chronicle of the expeditions, discoveries, and scientists behind the greatest natural history collection every assembled. Written by former Natural History columnist Douglas Preston, who worked at the American Museum of Natural History for seven years, this is a celebration of the best-known and best-loved museum in the United States.
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