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Cover of Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma
by Kristina L. Southwell, Jacquelyn Slater Reese
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014

Begun in 1927 by University of Oklahoma history professor Edward Everett Dale, the Western History Collections gathers and preserves rare research materials for scholars in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history, and the history of the American West. This guide has been compiled to...
Cover of Discovering Cook's Collection
by Michelle Hetherington
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

Discovering Cooks Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cooks voyages and contains essays by some of the worlds leading and most innovative historians and anthropologists. The book celebrates the richness of Pacific Island cultures...
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Crossroads of Culture

Anthropology Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science

by Stephen E. Nash, Steven R. Holen, Chip Colwell
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010

The hectic front of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hides an unseen back of the museum that is also bustling. Less than 1 percent of the museum's collections are on display at any given time, and the Department of Anthropology alone cares for more than 50,000 objects from every corner of...
Cover of Exhibiting Madness in Museums

Exhibiting Madness in Museums

Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display

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Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012

While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and...
Cover of Museum Skepticism

Museum Skepticism

A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries

by David Carrier
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006

In Museum Skepticism, art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public art museum during the French Revolution, its development has...
Cover of Malévitch dans les collections du Stedelijk Museum d'Amsterdam (Paris - 2003)
by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016

«Nous devons méditer le fait que Malévitch a manqué de n'être qu'une trace mythologique dans l'histoire de l'art.» Comme le rappelle Jean-Claude Marcadé, spécialiste de son œuvre, dans le catalogue de cette exposition, sans d'heureux concours de circonstances et sans la clairvoyance de quelques... À...
Cover of Maya. De l'aube au crépuscule. Collections nationales du Guatemala (Paris-2011)
by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016

Il faut remonter à 1968 pour trouver la trace d'une exposition consacrée en France à l'art maya du Guatemala. L'exposition présentée du 21 juin au 2 octobre 2011 au musée du quai Branly constitue donc une véritable découverte, en dépit de sa dimension restreinte... À PROPOS DE L’ENCYCLOPAEDIA...
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Rosa-rame

Salvator Rosa incisore nelle collezioni dellIstituto nazionale per la Grafica - Etchings by Salvator Rosa in the collections of the Istituto nazionale per la Grafica

by AA. VV.
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 3, 2015

Catalogo della mostra presso Museo dell'Istituto nazionale per la Grafica, Roma 10 aprile – 29 giugno 2014 L'Istituto nazionale per la Grafica dedica una mostra a Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) esponendo il patrimonio di stampe, disegni e matrici dalle sue collezioni, in vista delle celebrazioni per...
Cover of Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs
by Elizabeth Edwards, Sigrid Lien
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016

Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums,...
Cover of Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
by Stacey J. Pierson
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017

The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular remit – to exhibit members’ art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized, and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians,...
Cover of Conversation Pieces

Conversation Pieces

Inspirational objects in UCL’s historic collections

by Mark Carnall
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013

This book, beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned photography, is a celebration of UCL's unique collections, with leading academics from the university invited to select and write about an object each found inspiring. From a jar of moles to an Egyptian unguent spoon, a finger X-ray to...
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Collection / Musée

Les Grands Articles d'Universalis

by Encyclopaedia Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017

Partez à la découverte des collections et des musées avec ce Grand Article Universalis ! Il n'est pas d'objet naturel ou d'artefact qui ne puisse être collectionné. Œuvres d'art, spécimens de l'histoire naturelle, vestiges et documents historiques, objets témoins de l'histoire des sciences...
Cover of Statuettes funéraires égyptiennes du département des Monnaies, Médailles et Antiques
by Jacques François Aubert, Liliane Aubert
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2014

Pour les Égyptiens, l’accès au séjour éternel nécessitait une préparation funéraire appropriée et tout défunt se devait d’avoir à ses côtés une armée de serviteurs destinés à le suppléer pour tous les travaux susceptibles de lui être imposés dans l’au-delà. Ces statuettes...
Cover of Explorers
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

This publication brings together an outstanding ensemble of works by artist “explorers” selected from France’s national collections. Whatever the terrain — on land or at the depths of the ocean, real, virtual or even at the farthest limits of the subconscious — exploration remains a quest,...
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