Arab Modernism(s) is an exploration of how the Arab world encountered modernism sometimes inadvertently, sometimes deliberately and how those encounters continue to shape the built environment of its cities today....Loe edasi...
Reflecting on the relationship between artists and their audiences, this book examines how artists have presented themselves publicly through interviews and sought to establish a critical voice for themselves....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Dec-2025, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003515951)
This book explores the process of monumentalisation of Indo-Islamic historical places and their remaking as political sites in contemporary India situating these within the Muslim political discourse....Loe edasi...
The Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway....Loe edasi...
This book presents a broad scope of global contemporary art projects, establishing a new philosophical framework to understand and evaluate the new art practice known as place-as-medium....Loe edasi...
The Museum Environment Revisited is a valuable text that helps the reader understand collection care fundamentals and the preservation environment, as well as storage issues and decision-making....Loe edasi...
Collecting Social Media in Museums draws attention to the importance of collecting social media as museum objects and explores the role of rapid response and born-digital collecting in documenting social history as it happens....Loe edasi...
This book examines ephemeral exhibitions from 1750 to 1918. In an era of acceleration and elusiveness, these transient spaces functioned as microcosms in which reality was shown, simulated, staged, imagined, experienced and known....Loe edasi...
This book examines Chinas heritage practices since the 1990s heritage turn through diverse case studies using multiple disciplinary approaches...Loe edasi...
This book challenges the museum enterprise in China as a state monopoly and considers it as a new cultural agency that has emerged in the early twenty-first century....Loe edasi...
This book explores one of the untold stories of the American military occupation of Japan, from 1945 to 1952, that of efforts by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) Arts and Monuments Division for the preservation of Japans cultural...Loe edasi...
The only booklength account of collective remembering and analysis of how the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019....Loe edasi...
Instead of construing shipwrecks as dead, awaiting resurrection from the seafloor, this book presents them as vibrant if not recalcitrant objects, having shaken off anthropogenesis through varying stages of ruination....Loe edasi...
This book charts the history of Teylers Museum from its inception until Lorentz tenure. From the vantage point of the Museums scientific instrument collection, it gives an analysis of the changing public role of Teylers Museum over the course of t...Loe edasi...
This book examines ephemeral exhibition spaces from 1750-1918, focusing on domestic interiors and public exhibitions that displayed national/imperial identity alongside foreign otherness....Loe edasi...
World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka analyses how the World Heritage label is being used by different actors to generate new economic revenues and to attract investment for large-scale real estate development projects. In doing so, it revea...Loe edasi...
David Duindam examines how the Hollandsche Schouwburg, a former theatre in Amsterdam used for the registration and deportation of nearly 50,000 Jews, became a memorial museum, and how it will continue to be a meaningful site for future generations....Loe edasi...
The book describes the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully chosen case studies of memory spaces monuments, museums, post-war urban restoration, filmed and virtual space in order to show the appl...Loe edasi...
The national parks of England and Wales are a vital part of the environmental resources of Britain. Originally published in 1982 and drawing on considerable practical and research experience, the authors present a cogent, authoritative and radical c...Loe edasi...
