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Museum Frictions: Public Cultures/Global Transformations

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: Dec-06

Seller ID: 462388

ISBN: 822338947

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Museums, Society, Inequality (Museum Meanings)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Routledge: Mar-02

Seller ID: 462395

ISBN: 415260604

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Carbonell Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts

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Price: $10.00

Publisher: John Wiley &Sons: Sep-03

Seller ID: 462397

ISBN: 631228306

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Museum Studies in Material Culture

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Price: $5.00

Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press: Jan-92

Seller ID: 462400

ISBN: 1560981245

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Stewards of the Sacred

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Price: $6.00

Publisher: American Association of Museums with the Center for Study of World Religions, Harvard University: Jan-04

Seller ID: 462403

ISBN: 931201926

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Academic Anthropology and the Museum: Back to the Future (New Directions in Anthropology (13))

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Price: $10.00

Publisher: Berghahn Books: Dec-01

Seller ID: 462414

ISBN: 1571813217

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The museum boom, with its accompanying objectification and politicization of culture, finds its counterpart in the growing interest by social scientists in material culture, much of which is to be found in museums. Not surprisingly, anthropologists in particular are turning their attention again to museums, after decades of neglect, during which fieldwork became the hallmark of modern anthropology - so much so that the "social" and the "material" parted company so radically as to produce a kind of knowledge gap between historical collections and the intellectuals who might have benefitted ...
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Museums and Memory (Cultural Sitings)

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Price: $10.00

Publisher: Stanford University Press: Jul-00

Seller ID: 462426

ISBN: 804735654

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Museum Studies in Material Culture

By: N/A

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Smithsonian Institute Press: Jan-92

Seller ID: 462438

ISBN: 1560981245

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Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage (Readings in Conservation)

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Price: $15.00

Publisher: Getty Conservation Institute: Sep-96

Seller ID: 478465

ISBN: 892363983

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A Brief History of Curating: By Hans Ulrich Obrist (Documents)

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Publisher: JRP | Ringier: Oct-08

Seller ID: 492514

ISBN: 390582955X

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Part of JRP-Ringer's innovative Documents series, published with Les Presses du R el and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, ...
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Exhibiting Contradiction

By: Alan Wallach

Price: $6.00

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press: Feb-98

Seller ID: 462421

ISBN: 155849118X

Binding: Trade Paperback

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In Exhibiting Contradiction, a leading scholar considers the way art museums have depicted--and continue to depict--American society and the American past. In closely focused and often controversial essays, Alan Wallach explores the opposing ideologies that drove the development of the American art museum in the nineteenth century and the tensions and contradictions characteristic of recent museum history.
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Museum Basics

By: Ambrose, Timothy/Crispin, Pain

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Nov-13

Seller ID: 256849

ISBN: 415057701

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Art Held Hostage: Battle Over the Barnes Collection

By: Anderson, John

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Oct-13

Seller ID: 255356

ISBN: 393048896

Binding: Unknown

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Creating the Muse d'Orsay: The Politics of Culture in France

By: Andrea Kupfer Schneider

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Penn State University Press: Jul-98

Seller ID: 462419

ISBN: 027101752X

Binding: Hardcover

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The Gare d'Orsay train station, designed by French architect Victor Laloux, opened in Paris in 1900 to much fanfare. In fact, it was so beautiful that the French painter Edouard Detaille felt it would be more appropriate as a museum. Eighty-six years later, after a complex and controversial decision-making process, the French government finally transformed the station into the Musee d'Orsay, now one of the most dramatic and popular museums in Paris. This concise book presents the fascinating history of the creation of the Musee d'Orsay and the battles among the prominent politicians, curato...
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Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America

By: Andrea Stulman Dennett

Price: $20.00

Publisher: NYU Press: Oct-97

Seller ID: 462425

ISBN: 081471885x

Binding: Hardcover

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Dioramas and panoramas, freaks and magicians, waxworks and menageries, obscure relics and stuffed animals--a dazzling assortment of curiosities attracted the gaze of the nineteenth-century spectator at the dime museum. This distinctly American phenomenon was unprecedented in both the diversity of its amusements and in its democratic appeal, with audiences traversing the boundaries of ethnicity, gender, and class. Andrea Stulman Dennett's Weird and Wonderful: The Dime Museum in America recaptures this ephemeral and scarcely documented institution of American culture from the margins o...
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Return to Alexandria: An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory (UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series)

By: Beverley Butler

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Routledge: Nov-07

Seller ID: 462428

ISBN: 1598741918

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious--it coincided with scholarship moving away from the dominance of the western tradition; it privileged Alexandria's Greek heritage over 1500 years of Islamic scholarship; and it established an island for the cultural elite in an urban slum. Beverley Butler's ethnography of the project explores these contradictions, and the challenges faced by Egyptian and...
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