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Price: $23.95
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Sale: $22.75
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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: $31.92
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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: Elaine Heumann Gurian
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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: 2006-02-14
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Reading Level: 217
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Description: Written over a thirty-five year career, the essays in Civilizing the Museum introduce students to the powerful, sometimes contested, and often unrealized notion that museums should welcome all because they house the collective memory of all.
Drawing on her experience working in and with museums in the US and throughout the world, Author Elaine Heumann Gurian explores the possibilities for making museums more central and relevant to society.
The twenty-two essays are organized around five main themes:
* museum definitions
* civic responsibility and social service
* architectural spaces
* exhibitions
* spirituality and rationality.
And these themes address the elements that would make museums more inclusive such as:
* exhibition technique
* space configurations
* the personality of the director
* the role of social service
* power sharing
* types of museums
* the need for emotion humor and spirituality.
Without abandoning the traditional museum processes, Gurian shows how museums can honor tradition whilst embracing the new.
Enriched by her experience in groundbreaking museums, Gurian has provided a book that provokes thought, dialogue and action for students and professionals in the field to realize the inclusive potential of museums.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $10.83
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Manufacturer: ORO Editions
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Rodolphe El-Khoury
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Publisher: ORO Editions
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Dewey Decimal Number: 720
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Publication Date: 2006-04-01
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Reading Level: 120
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Description: Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's engraving "Coup d'oeil du tha tre Besan on" in which the architect's building is seen reflected in the eye of a viewer, is the center piece in this intellectual archaeology. Rodolphe el-Khoury's close reading of Ledoux's celebrated icon uses it to excavate the foundations of architectural transparency, Modernism's most potent and lasting "invention," which is here traced back to an intellectual milieu that precedes the industrial revolution's glass and steel building technology. The image becomes a site of entry into the culture of the eighteenth century--debates in public health, the political ideas of Rousseau, the philosophy of Condillac, the project of the Encyclopaedie--yielding insights into important philosophical, and architectural issues. The book includes a translation of Ledoux's chapter on the theater from his magnum opus, Considarae Sous le Rapport de l'art, des Moers, et de la Legislation
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Price: $40.00
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Sale: $27.68
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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: Anthony C. Wood
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Publisher: Routledge
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 974.7043
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Publication Date: 2007-10-25
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: Preserving New York: Winning the Right to Protect A City’s Landmarks is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City’s nationally acclaimed landmarks law. The decades of struggle behind the law, its intellectual origins, the men and women who fought for it, the forces that shaped it, and the buildings lost and saved on the way to its ultimate passage, span from 1913 to 1965. Intended for the interested public as well as students of New York City history, architecture, and preservation itself, over 100 illustrations help reveal a history richer and more complex than the accepted myth that the landmarks law sprang from the wreckage of the great Pennsylvania Station. Images include those by noted historic photographers as well as those from newspaper accounts of the time. Forgotten civic leaders such as Albert S. Bard and lost buildings including the Brokaw Mansions, are unveiled in an extensively researched narrative bringing this essential episode in New York’s history to future generations tasked with protecting the city’s landmarks. For the first time, the story of how New York won the right to protect its treasured buildings, neighborhoods and special places is brought together to enjoy, inform, and inspire all who love New York.
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Price: $16.95
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Sale: $1.30
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Manufacturer: PublicAffairs
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Peter Watson::Cecilia Todeschini
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
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Dewey Decimal Number: 363.25962
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Publication Date: 2007-06-11
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: The story begins, as stories do in all good thrillers, with a botched robbery and a police chase. Eight Apuleian vases of the fourth century B.C. are discovered in the swimming pool of a German-based art smuggler. More valuable than the recovery of the vases, however, is the discovery of the smuggler's card index detailing his deals and dealers. It reveals the existence of a web of tombaroli—tomb raiders— who steal classical artifacts, and a network of dealers and smugglers who spirit them out of Italy and into the hands of wealthy collectors and museums. Peter Watson, a former investigative journalist for the London Sunday Times and author of two previous exposés of art world scandals, names the key figures in this network that has depleted Europe's classical artifacts. Among the loot are the irreplaceable and highly collectable vases of Euphronius, the equivalent in their field of the sculpture of Bernini or the painting of Michelangelo. The narrative leads to the doors of some major institutions: Sothebys, the Getty Museum in L.A., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York among them. Filled with great characters and human drama, The Medici Conspiracy authoritatively exposes another shameful round in one of the oldest games in the world: theft, smuggling and duplicitous dealing, all in the name of art.
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Price: $79.95
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Sale: $65.37
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Blackaby James R.
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Edition: Rep Sub
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.52
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Publication Date: 1995-10-28
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Reading Level: 520
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Description: The Revised Nomenclature provides a universally accepted classification system with terminology that allows curators, registrars, and catalogers to describe artifacts precisely. It also creates a standard for cataloging so that in-house record keeping is complete and accurate for use by all staff members and the exchange of cultural objects and information between museums is possible on both a national and international scale. This system deals with information, not with methods of recording that information, and enables even the smallest museum's terminology to be in synchronization with the largest metropolitan museum. No museum can afford to be without this book.
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Price: $60.00
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Sale: $40.51
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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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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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Sale: $64.91
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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: $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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