Search results for “[Subject: museum-studies]”

• Author(s): Rixt Pol | Hanna Piksen • Publisher: Bis Publishers • Publisher Imprint: Bis Publishers • Subject: Fine Arts • BISAC: Study & TeachingSometimes visiting the atelier of an artist gives us answers about the methods and stories behi...

• Author(s): Srila Roy • Publisher: Oxford UP • Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP • Subject: Sociology and Anthropology • BISAC: Violence in Society Women’s participation in the Maoist revolution in India and the subcontinent as a whole has become mo...

• Author(s): Paul A. Tipler • Publisher: Macmillan Learning • Publisher Imprint: WH Freeman • Subject: Physics and AstronomyAbout the Book The Sixth Edition of Physics for Scientists and Engineers offers a completely integrated text and media sol...

• Author(s): Gala Porras-Kim • Publisher: Fowler Museum at UCLA • Publisher Imprint: Fowler Museum at UCLA • BISAC: Museum Studies Art that questions the museum's role in assigning meaning to cultural artifactThis thought-provoking volume focuses...

• Author(s): Sharon MacDonald • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: Museum Administration and MuseologyThe International Handbooks of Museum Studies is a multi-volume reference work that represents a state-of-...

• Author(s): Boswell David • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Popular CultureGathering key writings from leading thinkers in cultural studies, cultural history, and museum studies, Represe...

• Author(s): Simpson Moira G. • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: DirectoriesDrawing upon material from Britain, Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand, Making Representations...

• Author(s): Eva-Maria Seng • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: History - GeneralSeit dem 18. Jahrhundert erlebt die Institution Museum einen unvergleichlichen Aufschwung, der in den vergangenen Jahren insbesondere in...

• Author(s): Rob Cannings • Publisher: Royal British Columbia Museum • Publisher Imprint: Royal British Columbia Museum • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - EntomologyThe genus Lasiopogon is a widespread group of robber flies (Diptera: Asilidae) in...

• Author(s): Khadija Von Zinnenburg Carroll • Publisher: Bloomsbury • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual • Subject: Fashion & Textile • BISAC: Textile & CostumeCentring priest and navigator Tupaia and Pacific worldviews, this richly ill...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Edwards • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralPhotographs have had an integral and complex role in many anthropological contexts, from fieldwork to museum exhibitions. This boo...

• Author(s): T. B. Jakobsen • Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell • BISAC: ArchaeologyA study of The National Museum of Denmark which celebrated its 200 year anniversary in 2007. *Sees a nation in world context, traci...

• Author(s): Christina Kreps • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: GeneralUsing examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and native North America, Christina Kreps illustrates how the growing recog...

• Author(s): Amiria J. M. Henare • Publisher: Cambridge University Press • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAmiria Henare demonstrates that the collection of artefacts and their formal stu...

• Author(s): Jack Lohman • Publisher: Royal British Columbia Museum • Publisher Imprint: Royal British Columbia Museum • BISAC: EssaysIn this collection of illuminating essays, Jack Lohman, chief executive officer of the Royal British Columbia Mu...

• Author(s): Susana Smith Bautista • Publisher: Altamira Press • Publisher Imprint: Altamira Press • BISAC: Museum Administration and MuseologyMuseums in the Digital Age: Changing Meanings of Place, Community, and Culture showcases how the use of...

• Author(s): René D'Harnoncourt • Publisher: Museum of Modern Art • Publisher Imprint: Museum of Modern Art • BISAC: Museum StudiesD'Harnoncourt redefined exhibition making and the parameters of art itselfRené d'Harnoncourt served as the directo...

• Author(s): Jonathan Watkins • Publisher: Onomatopee • Publisher Imprint: Onomatopee • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - GeneralHistory Rising is an engaging study of museum display by artist Marjolijn Dijkman and curator Jes Fernie. Readers are in...

• Author(s): Marta Anico • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralHeritage and Identity explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representa...

• Author(s): British Museum (Natural History) Dept | Francis Walker • Publisher: Legare Street Press • Publisher Imprint: Legare Street Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - EntomologyFrancis Walker and his team's in-depth catalogue of homopte...

• Author(s): Seiko Jose • Publisher: Wiley-Scrivener • Publisher Imprint: Wiley-Scrivener • BISAC: Materials Science - GeneralHandbook of Museum Textiles Textiles have been known to us throughout human history and played a vital role in the lives...

• Author(s): David Ricks | Trapp Michael • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd • Publisher Imprint: Taylor & Francis Ltd • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralDialogos" encompasses Greek language and literature, Greek history and archaeology, Gree...

• Author(s): John Schofield | Wayne Cocroft • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Modern - 20Th CenturyFrom massive nuclear test sites to the more subtle material realities of everyday life, the influence of the Cold War ...

• Author(s): Whitney Davis • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Lgbtq+ Studies - Gay StudiesFind original research and interpretive studies of the relations between homosexuality and the visual arts. Evidence for the rol...

• Author(s): David Joselit • Publisher: Mit Press • Publisher Imprint: Mit Press • BISAC: Museum StudiesHow global contemporary art reanimates the past as a resource for the present, combating modern art's legacy of Eurocentrism.If European moder...

• Author(s): John E. Law | Lene Østermark-Johansen • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThe historiography of the Italian Renaissance has been much studied, but generally in the context of a few key figures...

• Author(s): David Pullins • Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York • Publisher Imprint: Metropolitan Museum of Art New York • BISAC: Individual Artists - MonographsA provocative study of a freedman painter that recognizes the labor of en...

• Author(s): Andrew Milner • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryAs cultural studies has grown from its origins on the margins of literary studies, it has tended to discard both literature and sociol...

• Author(s): Vernon A. Rosario M. D. • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Lgbtq+ Studies - Gay StudiesScience and Homosexualities is the first anthology by historians of science to examine European and American scientifi...

• Author(s): Adrian Athique | Douglas Hill • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialDuring the decade of its existence in India, the multiplex cinema has been very much a sign of the times...

• Author(s): Sidney Cheung | Chee-Beng Tan • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFood is an important cultural marker of identity in contemporary Asian societies, and can provide a medi...