Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385121590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
List of Additions To The Printed Books In The British Museum In The Years 1836 -1838
Author: AnonymousPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385121590
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
List of Additions to the Printed Books in the British Museum in the Years MDCCCXXXVI-MDCCCXXXVIII.
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Deaccessioning and Its Discontents
Author: Martin GammonPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262037580
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 445
Book Description
The first history of the deaccession of objects from museum collections that defends deaccession as an essential component of museum practice. Museums often stir controversy when they deaccession works—formally remove objects from permanent collections—with some critics accusing them of betraying civic virtue and the public trust. In fact, Martin Gammon argues in Deaccessioning and Its Discontents, deaccession has been an essential component of the museum experiment for centuries. Gammon offers the first critical history of deaccessioning by museums from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and exposes the hyperbolic extremes of “deaccession denial”—the assumption that deaccession is always wrong—and “deaccession apology”—when museums justify deaccession by finding some fault in the object—as symptoms of the same misunderstanding of the role of deaccessions in proper museum practice. He chronicles a series of deaccession events in Britain and the United States that range from the disastrous to the beneficial, and proposes a typology of principles to guide future deaccessions. Gammon describes the liquidation of the British Royal Collections after Charles I's execution—when masterworks were used as barter to pay the king's unpaid bills—as establishing a precedent for future deaccessions. He recounts, among other episodes, U.S. Civil War veterans who tried to reclaim their severed limbs from museum displays; the 1972 “Hoving affair,” when the Metropolitan Museum of Art sold a number of works to pay for a Velázquez portrait; and Brandeis University's decision (later reversed) to close its Rose Art Museum and sell its entire collection of contemporary art. An appendix provides the first extensive listing of notable deaccessions since the seventeenth century. Gammon ultimately argues that vibrant museums must evolve, embracing change, loss, and reinvention.
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the University of Edinburgh
Author: Edinburgh University LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
Books with Manuscript
Author: Robin AlstonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
Marginal annotations to printed books are a little studied aspect of the history of books and the transmission of ideas, providing a commentary on published texts which is conventionally anonymous, critical and economical. While many annotations are no more than individual comments on or disagreements with what an author has written, in a significant number of cases marginal notes have been found to be authorial, often adding an important new dimension to the original text.
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