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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 746
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Arts Digest
Author: Town & Country
Author: All in a Garden Fair
Author: Alice T. A. QuackenbushPublisher:
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 122
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The Brickbuilder
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
An architectural monthly.
Scattered Finds
Author: Alice StevensonPublisher: UCL Press
ISBN: 1787351424
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
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 Egypt's first rulers at Abydos, Akhenaten and Nefertiti’s city of Tell el-Amarna and rich Roman Era burials in the Fayum. Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies range from Victorian municipal museums and women’s suffrage campaigns in the UK, to the development of some of the USA’s largest institutions, and from university museums in Japan to new institutions in post-independence Ghana. By juxtaposing a diversity of sites for the reception of Egyptian cultural heritage over the period of a century, Alice Stevenson presents new ideas about the development of archaeology, museums and the construction of Egyptian heritage. She also addresses the legacy of these practices, raises questions about the nature of the authority over such heritage today, and argues for a stronger ethical commitment to its stewardship. Praise for Scattered Finds 'Scattered Finds is a remarkable achievement. In charting how British excavations in Egypt dispersed artefacts around the globe, at an unprecedented scale, Alice Stevenson shows us how ancient objects created knowledge about the past while firmly anchored in the present. No one who reads this timely book will be able to look at an Egyptian antiquity in the same way again.' Professor Christina Riggs, UEA
Thinking About Exhibitions
Author: Bruce W. FergusonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134820011
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales.
American Drawings, Watercolors, Pastels, and Collages in the Collection of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Author: Corcoran Gallery of ArtPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Florida Jewish Heritage Trail
Author: Florida. Division of Historical ResourcesPublisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Traces the steps of Florida's Jewish pioneers from colonial times through the present through the historical sites in each county that reflect their heritage.
History of Berlin, Connecticut
Author: Catharine Melinda NorthPublisher:
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Category : Berlin (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 356
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Anarchy and Art
Author: Allan AntliffPublisher: arsenal pulp press
ISBN: 1551523000
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
One of the powers of art is its ability to convey the human aspects of political events. In this fascinating survey on art, artists, and anarchism, Allan Antliff interrogates critical moments when anarchist artists have confronted pivotal events over the past 140 years. The survey begins with Gustave Courbet’s activism during the 1871 Paris Commune (which established the French republic) and ends with anarchist art during the fall of the Soviet empire. Other subjects include the French neoimpressionists, the Dada movement in New York, anarchist art during the Russian Revolution, political art of the 1960s, and gay art and politics post-World War II. Throughout, Antliff vividly explores art’s potential as a vehicle for social change and how it can also shape the course of political events, both historic and present-day; it is a book for the politically engaged and art aficionados alike. Allan Antliff is the author of Anarchist Modernism.