Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (Lonetree Amy)(Paperback)

Decolonizing Museums: Representing Native America in National and Tribal Museums (Lonetree Amy)(Paperback)

Museum exhibitions focusing on Native American history have long been curator controlled. However, a shift is occurring, giving Indigenous people a larger role in determining exhibition content. In Decolonizing Museums, Amy Lonetree examines the complexities of these new relationships with an eye

Bagpipes - A National Collection of a National Treasure (Cheape Hugh)(Paperback / softback)

Based on 'a national collection of a national instrument' in National Museums Scotland, the book puts the musicology of the bagpipe in its European context. There is no CD-ROM with this

Creating Authenticity: Authentication Processes in Ethnographic Museums (Geurds Alexander)(Paperback)

'Authenticity' and authentication is at the heart of museums' concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum collectors and pioneering

Native North America (Zimmerman Larry J.)(Paperback)

With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North America illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous people of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Navajo of the American southwest. Beginning with a brief history

The Objects of Experience: Transforming Visitor-Object Encounters in Museums (Wood Elizabeth)(Paperback)

What if museums could harness the emotional and intellectual connections people have to personal and everyday objects to create richer visitor experiences? In this book, Elizabeth Wood and Kiersten Latham present the Object Knowledge Framework, a tool for using objects to connect museum visitors to

Early Medieval Scotland - Individuals, Communities and Ideas (Clarke David)(Paperback / softback)

A pioneering partnership between National Museums Scotland and The Glenmorangie Comany has supported a major programme of research into the archaeology of Scotland during the Early Medieval Period. Out of that has come this milestone book in Scottish archaeological

Treasuring the Tradition: The Story of the Military Museums (Keshen Jeff)(Paperback)

The Military Museums in Calgary, Alberta is Western Canada's only tri-service museum and military education centre. Containing the regimental museums of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (PPCLI), Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians), The King's Own Calgary Regiment, and the

Museums of Communism: New Memory Sites in Central and Eastern Europe (Norris Stephen M.)(Paperback)

Destination Art: Art Essentials (Dempsey Amy)(Paperback)

Some of the world's greatest works of art exist outside of museums and galleries. They can be found in the open fields of Marfa, Texas, and on tiny, lush islands in Japan. This broad category of 'destination art' includes massive land and environmental works and extensive sculpture parks, as well

Photograph - A Victorian Sensation (Morrison-Low Alison)(Paperback / softback)

In this souvenir book of the exhibition of the same name (National Museums Scotland 19 June - 22 November) you will meet the pioneers of photography and discover how the Victorian craze for the photograph transformed the way we capture images today and mirrors our own modern-day fascination for

Past Disquiet: Artists, International Solidarity and Museums in Exile (Khouri Kristine)(Paperback)

The International Art Exhibition for Palestine took place in Beirut in 1978 and mobilized international networks of artists in solidarity with anti-imperialist movements of the 1960s and '70s. In that era, individual artists and artist collectives assembled collections; organized touring

The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk about It (Procter Alice)(Paperback)

Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of

Faith in Fakes (Eco Umberto)(Paperback / softback)

Holography, wax museums, the secret meaning of spectator sports, Superman and the intellectual effects of over-tight jeans are just a few of the subjects covered in this collection of witty, entertaining and thought-provoking delights from Umberto Eco, celebrated author of The Name of the

The Art Museum in Modern Times (Saumarez Smith Charles)(Pevná vazba)

The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw either radical architectural interventions or rethinks of their mission under Charles Saumarez Smith's leadership, making him uniquely qualified to explore the ways in which art museums have changed over the past

Scattered Finds: Archaeology, Egyptology and Museums (Stevenson Alice)(Paperback)

Between the 1880s and 1980s, British excavations at locations across Egypt resulted in the discovery of hundreds of thousands of ancient objects that were subsequently sent to some 350 institutions worldwide. These finds included unique discoveries at iconic sites such as the tombs of ancient

Artistry of the Everyday: Beauty and Craftsmanship in Berber Art (Bernasek Lisa)(Paperback)

Imazighen Beauty and Artisanship in Berber Life presents the Peabody Museum's collection of arts from the Berber-speaking regions of North Africa. The book gives an overview of Berber history and culture, focusing on the rich aesthetic traditions of Amazigh (Berber) craftsmen and women. From

Art Therapy in Museums and Galleries: Reframing Practice (Coles Ali)(Paperback)

This is the first book to explore and evaluate the potential of museum and gallery spaces and partnerships for art therapy. Showcasing approaches by well-known art therapists, the edited collection contains descriptions of, and reflections on, art therapy in museums and galleries around the globe

Emelia Moorgrim and the Medieval Monsters of Norfolk (King Isabelle)(Paperback)

Monsters have escaped from medieval books and they're running riot in Norfolk museums Join Emelia Moorgrim and her cat Monty Marmalade as they courageously use their time travel watch to journey through history, untangle mysteries and capture the monsters before they cause too much trouble

Slow Art: The Experience of Looking, Sacred Images to James Turrell (Reed Arden)(Paperback)

Americans, on average, spend between six and ten seconds with individual artworks in museums or galleries--hardly time enough. But how, in our culture of distraction, might we extend attention? Slow Art models sustained ways of looking, through encounters with various media both present and

The Art Museum from Boullee to Bilbao (McClellan Andrew)(Paperback)

Art museums have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. Though art museums have never been more popular, their direction and values are now being contested as never before--both in the media and in the art world itself. This engaging thematic history

Native America: Aperture 240 (Aperture)(Paperback)

This fall, as debates around nationalism and borders in North America reach a fever pitch, Aperture magazine releases 'Native America,' a special issue about photography and Indigenous lives, guest edited by the artist Wendy Red Star. 'Native America' considers the wide-ranging work of

Home Rule: National Sovereignty and the Separation of Natives and Migrants (Sharma Nandita)(Paperback)

In Home Rule Nandita Sharma traces the historical formation and political separation of Natives and Migrants from the nineteenth century to the present to theorize the portrayal of Migrants as 'colonial invaders.' The imperial-state category of Native, initially a mark of colonized status, has been

The Immigrant-Food Nexus: Borders, Labor, and Identity in North America (Agyeman Julian)(Paperback)

The intersection of food and immigration in North America, from the macroscale of national policy to the microscale of immigrants' lived, daily foodways.This volume considers the intersection of food and immigration at both the macroscale of national policy and the microscale of immigrant

Working in America: Continuity, Conflict, and Change in a New Economic Era (Wharton Amy S.)(Paperback)

The Great Recession brought rising inequality and changing family economies. New technologies continued to move jobs overseas, including those held by middle-class information workers. The first new edition to capture these historic changes, this book is the leading text in the sociology of work