This volume examines the emerging exhibition complex on Chinese art in early twentieth-century China, and from the mid-1950s onwards, the cultural politics involved in Asia with the exhibitions of traditional and modern Chinese art in Taiwan, Japan,...Loe edasi...
The Ethics of Collecting Trauma offers an interdisciplinary dialogue on the ethics of contemporary museums that are involved in collecting moments of collective trauma....Loe edasi...
Cultivating Futures Thinking in Museums provides examples of the active and diverse roles that museums are taking to expand futures thinking in communities, including developing capabilities to envision and enact more prosperous, equitable and susta...Loe edasi...
Examining the wide-ranging and abiding implications of Ruskins engagement with his contemporaries and followers into the present, this collection is organized around three related themes. This book studies the dissemination of Ruskins intellectual...Loe edasi...
Firmly grounded in archival research, Sculpture Collections in Early Modern Spain transforms our knowledge regarding the presence of sculpture in the country during the period, which until now has been erroneously characterized as close to non-exist...Loe edasi...
This volume explores the changing status of anatomical collections from the early modern period to date. It is argued that anatomical and pathological collections are medically relevant for future research, and are important in the history of medici...Loe edasi...
Conservation of 20th Century Furniture provides a comprehensive coverage of materials and techniques that are encountered in twentieth-century furniture, through both a contextual point of view and a range of practice perspectives....Loe edasi...
Analysing Museum Display is the first comprehensive book to bring together approaches to studying museum display. Drawing on global examples, it reviews different theoretical frameworks & methods, charting major contributions to the field & explorin...Loe edasi...
Now in its fifth edition, The Historians Toolbox is designed to help students become skilled in the intellectual process and craft of history, offering an overview of the field and techniques for reading and writing about history....Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the development of the National Museum of Natural Historys David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, exploring the origins of the exhibit, its changes over time, and the associated educational and public outreach activities of member...Loe edasi...
Future Stories in the Global Heritage Industry explores what happens to the heritage and memory of communities that find themselves in contact with the rest of the world when they become UNESCO World Heritage Sites....Loe edasi...
This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora. Making a crucial contribution to our understanding of African conceptions and practices of heritage, this book is important to scholars of...Loe edasi...
Museums and the History of Computing examines the critical role that cultural organisations, such as museums and galleries, play in shaping digital heritage: the cultural heritage surrounding computer technology....Loe edasi...
Heritage, Conflict, and Peace-Building examines the possibilities arising from, and challenges associated with, transforming heritage from a casualty of conflict into an opportunity for peacebuilding....Loe edasi...
The Routledge International Handbook of Heritage and Politics makes an intervention into theoretical debate about the nature and role of heritage as a political resource....Loe edasi...
Mosque examines the history, culture, evolution and functions of the mosque through the prism of its artistic objects and architectural elements. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the art and culture of the Muslim world....Loe edasi...
Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology shifts museum anthropologys relationship to the broader field from marginal to central by revealing the sophisticated transdisciplinary praxis (theory + practice) at the heart of current museum a...Loe edasi...
An Introductory Guide to Qualitative Research in Art Museums is a practice-based guide that is designed to introduce qualitative research to established and upcoming museum professionals and increase their confidence to conduct this type of research...Loe edasi...
Travel, Art and Collecting in South Asia questions what might be ideas of vertiginous collecting, art making and museums as expanded fields, including wonder houses, missionary museums or museobuses, in Britain and South Asia....Loe edasi...
Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods....Loe edasi...
