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Price: $29.95
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Sale: $24.26
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mary Alexander
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069
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Publication Date: 2007-11-28
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Reading Level: 366
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Description: In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served as an essential resource for those seeking to enter to the museum profession and for established professionals looking for an expanded understanding of their own discipline. Now, Mary Alexander has produced a newly revised edition of the classic text, bringing it the twenty-first century with coverage of emerging trends, resources, and challenges.
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Price: $31.95
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Sale: $28.64
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Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Hugh H. Genoways
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Publisher: AltaMira Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.068
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Publication Date: 2003-09
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Reading Level: 416
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Description: Museum Administration is the handbook for students, new professionals, and anyone who needs to know what goes into running a museum. The authors cover everything from basic organization to human resource management, with case studies and exercises to help reinforce the text. Includes an extensive bibliography and appendices. Visit our website for sample chapters!
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Price: $13.95
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Sale: $3.74
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Manufacturer: Smithsonian
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Turtleback
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Author: Smithsonian
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.09753
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Reading Level: 221
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Description: The Smithsonian Institution, the largest museum complex in the world, holds more than 142 million artifacts and specimens in its trust. This colorful guide to the eight museums and galleries on the National Mall, five more in the Washington metropolitan area, two in New York City, and the National Zoo presents an enormous amount of history and pertinent museum information, ensuring a rewarding visit. Each detailed section presents the history of each museum and offers a fully illustrated, gallery-by-gallery tour. All the practical information-location, hours, phone numbers, public transportation, services, tours, dining, gift shops, special attractions for children, Web site addresses-is also included. This strudy guide has been accessibly produces by the Smithsonian's award-winning designers and is beautifully photographed throughout in full color.
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Price: $19.95
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Sale: $10.00
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Manufacturer: W. W. Norton
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Hoving
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Publisher: W. W. Norton
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Dewey Decimal Number: 750.7
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Publication Date: 2005-12-18
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: A stunning visual game that helps readers enjoy, appreciate, and identify great works of art.
As director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a decade, Thomas Hoving brought art to a new level of public awareness by pioneering such blockbuster shows as the King Tut exhibit. Early in his career, Hoving was introduced to the "curator's game." Each week, he and his contemporaries met to examine details of larger museum masterpieces. Whoever correctly identified the detail in context won free coffee: the losers paid.
In an imaginative adaptation of this exercise, Hoving introduces us to the challenge and the fun of identifying art, and to the rewards of familiarity with the great works. A section of paintings accompanied by brief essays introduces a range of artists, themes, techniques, and styles, while progressively demanding "clues" are provided to help identify visual details in context. No experience is necessary to play this game. Readers at all levels will discover the fun of identifying and remembering great art. 250 color illustrations.
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Price: $50.00
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Sale: $31.50
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Manufacturer: Abbeville Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
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Publisher: Abbeville Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 704.042074753
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Publication Date: 2008-12-25
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Reading Level: 240
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Description: Over the centuries, until quite recently, the work of great women artists had been ignored, forgotten, or denied; they had been largely left out of museums and histories of art. Along came Wilhelmina Cole Holliday, who boldly decided it was time to rectify this oversight by founding a museum in 1987 in a landmark building near the White House. A critic for the Washington Post wrote, "Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, the museum's founding president, has accomplished something radical. No player in the art scene here has a deeper understanding of power and money and of how our system works. Despite her white-glove graciousness, hard-working Billie Holladay is a warrior and a winner...." This thrilling story of the birth and early years of the NMWA is a lively, anecdotal, behind-the-scenes, eyewitness glimpse of the efforts of dedicated individuals who shared Mrs. Holladay's vision and, under her leadership, helped her expand the permanent collection, organize outstanding exhibitions, renovate the Museum, and fund a robust endowment. Moreover, NMWA now boasts a growing membership--among the top ten museums in the world--with active, vocal committees all across the nation and in many countries. Illustrating the text are 130 color pictures, which include works from the collection and from exhibitions, as well as 40 archival photographs of landmark events that led to the Museum's impressive growth. 170 Illustrations - 130 in full color
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Price: $28.95
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Sale: $9.99
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Manufacturer: Touchstone
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Thomas Hoving
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Publisher: Touchstone
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Dewey Decimal Number: 709.2
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Publication Date: 1994-02-15
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Reading Level: 448
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Description: A former Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art reveals his bold and brash life at its pinnacle: the clandestine deals which secured blockbuster exhibitions for the museum and made him a legend. Photos.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $6.99
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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: Bay Ap
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069.09753
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Publication Date: 1996-07-17
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Reading Level: 155
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Reading Level: Ages 9-12
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Description: From Dorothy's red slippers to the Wright brothers plane, the Smithsonian is filled with objects fascinating to kids. Yet choosing what to see in the nation's largest museum complex can challenge even the most enthusiastic families. Packed with information and pictures, this lively new guide offers eight to 12-year-olds a way to navigate the Smithsonian. 250 full color illustrations.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $18.00
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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: Weil Se
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Dewey Decimal Number: 069
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Publication Date: 2002-04
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: Stephen E. Weil has long been considered one of the museum community's most insightful (and frequently wittiest) commentators. In this volume of twenty-nine recent essays, his overarching concern is that museums be able to "earn their keep"-that they make themselves matter-in an environment of pontentially shrinking resources.
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Price: $31.95
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Sale: $24.28
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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: Marie C. Malaro
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Publisher: Smithsonian
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Edition: 2nd
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Dewey Decimal Number: 344.73093
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Publication Date: 1998-04-17
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Reading Level: 507
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Price: $21.95
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Sale: $16.14
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Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Brian O'Doherty::Thomas McEvilley
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Publisher: University of California Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 701.8
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Publication Date: 2000-01-14
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Reading Level: 113
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Description: When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translatedthe three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others. O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system. These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.
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