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ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
The Wit's Museum
Author: Wits Museum, Or the New London Jester
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Wits University at 100
Author: University of the WitwatersrandPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776147359
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Wits University at 100 tells the story of the University of the Witwatersrand from its beginnings as a mining college in Johannesburg to its current position as a vibrant university driving innovation from the global South. In the voices of its people, this full-colour, illustrated book celebrates the university's centenary in 2022.
Activate/Captivate
Author: William Kentridge
Author: William KentridgePublisher:
ISBN: 9780876332566
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
South African artist William Kentridge has produced an outstanding body of work in multiple mediums all of which trace the fraught political and cultural history of South Africa. This title explores Kentridge's new series of 17 large-scale tapestries, created under his artistic direction by a team of South African weavers.
The Museum
Author: Samuel J. RedmanPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1479835315
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Celebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challenges On an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the flames engulfed the museum’s castle. Rare objects and valuable paintings were destroyed. The flames at the Smithsonian were not the first—and certainly would not be the last— disaster to upend a museum in the United States. Beset by challenges ranging from pandemic and war to fire and economic uncertainty, museums have sought ways to emerge from crisis periods stronger than before, occasionally carving important new paths forward in the process. The Museum explores the concepts of “crisis” as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty. Fires, floods, and hurricanes have all upended museum plans and forced people to ask difficult questions about American cultural life. With chapters exploring World War I and the 1918 influenza pandemic, the Great Depression, World War II, the 1970 Art Strike in New York City, and recent controversies in American museums, this book takes a new approach to understanding museum history. By diving deeper into the changes that emerged from these key challenges, Samuel J. Redman argues that cultural institutions can—and should— use their history to prepare for challenges and solidify their identity going forward. A captivating examination of crisis moments in US museum history from the early years of the twentieth century to the present day, The Museum offers inspiration in the resilience and longevity of America’s most prized cultural institutions.
The Postcolonial Museum
Author: Dr Celeste IannicielloPublisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1472415671
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Transformation of museums from physical places to cultural spaces provides the opportunity to re-examine and reassess histories, sounds, voices, images, memories, bodies, expression and cultures previously repressed by the historical and traditional frames of Occidental thought. Developing the ‘postcolonial’ museum in an age of mass migrations, the internet and digital technologies requires new strategies and critical approaches which will renew and extend understandings of European citizenship and result in an inevitable re-evaluation of the concept of ‘modernity’ in a so-called globalised and multicultural world.
WITS: The 'Open' Years
Author: Bruce MurrayPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 1776148126
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
This second volume by Bruce Murray looks at Wits University's role in South Africa's war effort, its contribution to the education of ex-volunteers after the war, its leading role in training job-seeking professionals, the rise of research and postgraduate study and the University's defence to preserve its 'open' status.
Engaging Modernities
Author: Anitra C. E. NettletonPublisher: University of Witwatersrand Art Galleries
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Creating the Creation Museum
Author: Kathleen C. OberlinPublisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 147980570X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Investigates how the Christian fundamentalist movement brings Creationism into the mainstream through a Kentucky museum In Creating the Creation Museum, Kathleen C. Oberlin shows us how the largest Creationist organization, Answers in Genesis (AiG), built a museum—which has had over three million visitors—to make its movement mainstream. She takes us behind the scenes, vividly bringing the museum to life by detailing its infamous exhibits on human fossils, dinosaur remains, and more. Drawing on over three years of research at the Creation Museum, where she was granted rare access to AiG’s leadership, Oberlin examines how the museum convincingly reframes scientific facts, such as modeling itself on traditional natural history museums. Through a unique historical dataset of over 1,000 internal documents from creationist organizations and an analysis of media coverage, Creating the Creation Museum shows how the museum works as a site of social movement activity and a place to contest the secular mainstream. Oberlin ultimately argues that the Creation Museum has real-world consequences in today’s polarized era.