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Author: Steven D. Lubar Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674971043 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.
Author: Steven D. Lubar Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674971043 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 417
Book Description
Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.
Author: Steven Lubar Publisher: Harvard University Press ISBN: 0674983297 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 416
Book Description
Museum lovers know that energy and mystery run through every exhibition. Steven Lubar explains work behind the scenes—collecting, preserving, displaying, and using art and artifacts in teaching, research, and community-building—through historical and contemporary examples, especially the lost but reimagined Jenks Museum at Brown University.
Author: Marc Brown Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0375829733 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 27
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During a class visit to the museum, Arthur needs to make a quick visit to the boys’ lavatory. But a wrong turn leads him into a diorama of life-size models of Pilgrims celebrating the first Thanksgiving . . . just as Mr. Ratburn and his class are about to study it. Will Arthur be in big trouble?
Author: Steven D. Lubar Publisher: ISBN: 9780674982901 Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Languages : en Pages : 408
Book Description
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Explore -- Part I: Collect -- 1. Why Collect? -- 2. Collectable -- 3. Acquisitions -- 4. In the Field -- 5. Who Collects? -- Part II: Preserve -- 6. Into the Storeroom -- 7. Paperwork -- 8. The Ethics of Objects -- Part III: Display -- 9. Objects, Stories, and Visitors -- 10. Objects on Display -- 11. Organizations and Juxtapositions -- 12. Explanations and Encounters -- 13. Setting the Scene -- 14. Turned Inside Out -- Part IV: Use -- 15. What Use Is a Museum? -- 16. Museums Make Communities -- 17. Learning from Things -- 18. Teaching with Things -- 19. The Promise of Museums -- Coda: Critique -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index
Author: Nancy Moses Publisher: Rowman Altamira ISBN: 9780759110700 Category : Museums Languages : en Pages : 184
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Few beyond the insider realize that museums own millions of objects the public never sees. In Lost in the Museum, Nancy Moses takes the reader behind the Oemployees onlyO doors to uncover the stories buried--along with the objects--in the crypts of museums, historical societies, and archives. Moses discovers the actual birds shot, stuffed, and painted by John James Audubon, AmericaOs most beloved bird artist; a spear that abolitionist John Brown carried in his quixotic quest to free the slaves; and the skull of a prehistoric Peruvian child who died with scurvy. She takes the reader to Ker-Feal, the secret farmhouse that Albert Barnes of the Barnes Foundation filled with fabulous American antiques and that was then left untouched for more than fifty years. Weaving the stories of the object, its original owner, and the often idiosyncratic institution where the object resides, the book reveals the darkest secret of the cultural world: the precarious balance of art, culture, and politics that keep items, for decades, lost in the museum.
Author: Noah Charney Publisher: Phaidon Press ISBN: 9780714875842 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 0
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True tales of lost art, built around case studies of famous works, their creators, and stories of disappearance and recovery From the bestselling author of The Art of Forgery comes this dynamic narrative that tells the fascinating stories of artworks stolen, looted, or destroyed in war, accidentally demolished or discarded, lost at sea or in natural disasters, or attacked by iconoclasts or vandals; works that were intentionally temporal, knowingly destroyed by the artists themselves or their patrons, covered over with paint or plaster, or recycled for their materials. An exciting read that spans the centuries and the continents.
Author: Vladimir Lukonin Publisher: Parkstone International ISBN: 1783107960 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 573
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Housed in the Hermitage Museum along with other institutes, libraries, and museums in Russia and the republics of the former Soviet Union are some of the most magnificent treasures of Persian Art. For the most part, many of these works have been lost, but have been catalogued and published here for the first time with an unsurpassed selection of colour plates. In a comprehensive introduction, Vladimir Lukonin, Director of the Oriental Art section of the Hermitage Museum, and his colleague Anatoli Ivanov have broadly documented the major developments of Persian Art: from the first signs of civilisation on the plains of Iran around the 10thcentury BCE through the early 20th century. In the second part of the book they have catalogued Persian Art giving locations, origins, descriptions, and artist biographies where available. Persian Art demonstrates a common theme which runs through the art of the region over the past three millennia. Despite many religious and political upheavals, Persian Art whether in its architecture, sculpture, frescoes, miniatures, porcelain, fabrics, or rugs; whether in the work of the humble craftsmen or the high art of court painters displays the delicate touch and subtle refinement which has had a profound influence on art throughout the world.
Author: Lance Grande Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 022638943X Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 431
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Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. At the heart of it all from the very start have been curators. Yet after three decades as a natural history curator, Lance Grande found that he still had to explain to people what he does. This book is the answer—and, oh, what an answer it is: lively, exciting, up-to-date, it offers a portrait of curators and their research like none we’ve seen, one that conveys the intellectual excitement and the educational and social value of curation. Grande uses the personal story of his own career—most of it spent at Chicago’s storied Field Museum—to structure his account as he explores the value of research and collections, the importance of public engagement, changing ecological and ethical considerations, and the impact of rapidly improving technology. Throughout, we are guided by Grande’s keen sense of mission, of a job where the why is always as important as the what. This beautifully written and richly illustrated book is a clear-eyed but loving account of natural history museums, their curators, and their ever-expanding roles in the twenty-first century.
Author: Steven D. Lubar
Author: Steven D. Lubar
Author: Steven Lubar
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Author: Marc Brown
Author: Steven D. Lubar
Author: Nancy Moses
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Author: Lance Grande