Author: Diana Fane
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780295971049
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Author: Stuart Cary Welch
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0030061148
Category : Art, Indic
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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A selection of 333 works of art representing masterpieces of the sacred and court traditions as well as their urban, folk, and tribal heritage.

Author: Anonymous
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385356938
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author: Janet Catherine Berlo
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
ISBN: 0870998579
Category : Diker, Charles
Languages : en
Pages : 130

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This catalogue includes 139 Native North American works of art that represent many peoples and a variety of materials and functions, presented here for their aesthetic value.-- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Author: Ashmolean Museum
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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The Ashmolean's holdings of Indian art are the most extensive in Britain after the great London collections of the British Museum and the V&A. This book is arranged chronologically in three separate sections -- Hindu, Buddhist and Jain sculpture; folk bronzes and paintings; paintings and decorative arts of the Mughal and British periods.

Author: T. J. Barringer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415157766
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Drawing together intensive case studies from an international group of scholars, the editors explore the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation.

Author: National Gallery of Victoria
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Richard F. Townsend
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300214839
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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A stunning survey of the indigenous art, architecture, and spiritual beliefs of the Americas, from the Precolumbian era to the 20th century This landmark publication catalogues the Art Institute of Chicago’s outstanding collection of Indian art of the Americas, one of the foremost of its kind in the United States. Showcasing a host of previously unpublished objects dating from the Precolumbian era to the 20th century, the book marks the first time these holdings have been comprehensively documented. Richard Townsend and Elizabeth Pope weave an overarching narrative that ranges from the Midwestern United States to the Yucatán Peninsula to the heart of South America. While exploring artists’ myriad economic, historical, linguistic, and social backgrounds, the authors demonstrate that they shared both a deep, underlying cosmological view and the desire to secure their communities’ prosperity by affirming connections to the sacred forces of the natural world. The critical essays focus on topics that bridge traditions across North, Central, and South America, including materials, methods of manufacture, the diversity of stylistic features, and the iconography and functions of various objects. Gorgeously illustrated in color with more than 500 vibrant images, this handsome catalogue serves as the definitive survey of an unparalleled collection.

Author: Tim Barringer
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135106878
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 242

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Drawing together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplinary and cultural backgrounds, Colonialism and the Object explores the impact of colonial contact with other cultures on the material culture of both the colonized and the imperial nation. The book includes intensive case-studies of objects from India, Pakistan, New Zealand, China and Africa, all of which were collected by, or exhibited in, the institutions of the British Empire, and key chapters address issues of radical identity across cultural barriers, and the hybird styles of objects which can emerge when cultures meet. Colonialism and the Object is essential reading for all those interested in post-colonial theory, museum studies, material culture and design history.

Author: Elizabeth Edwards
Publisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1800082983
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 357

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What are photographs ‘doing’ in museums? Why are some photographs valued and others not? Why are some photographic practices visible and not others? What value systems and hierarchies do they reflect? What Photographs Do explores how museums are defined through their photographic practices. It focuses not on formal collections of photographs as accessioned objects, be they ‘fine art’ or ‘archival’, but on what might be termed ‘non-collections’: the huge number of photographs that are integral to the workings of museums yet ‘invisible’, existing outside the structures of ‘the collection’. These photographs, however, raise complex and ambiguous questions about the ways in which such accumulations of photographs create the values, hierarchies, histories and knowledge-systems, through multiple, folded and overlapping layers that might be described as the museum’s ecosystem. These photographic dynamics are studied through the prism of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, an institution with over 150 years' engagement with photography’s multifaceted uses and existences in the museum. The book differs from more usual approaches to museum studies in that it presents not only formal essays but short ‘auto-ethnographic’ interventions from museum practitioners, from studio photographers and image managers to conservators and non-photographic curators, who address the significance of both historical and contemporary practices of photography in their work. As such this book offers an extensive and unique range of accounts of what photographs ‘do’ in museums, expanding the critical discourse of both photography and museums.