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Harvard Art Museum Handbook
With some 280,000 objects, the Harvard Art Museum is the largest university art museum in the United States. Its Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and Arthur M. Sackler museums feature world-renowned collections of...
Exhibiting Cultures: The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display
Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed...
Diaries: 1967-87
For over three decades Roy Sstrong has teased, tantalised, amused and sometimes enraged the British public, firstly in his capacity as the Director of two great cultural institutions, the National...
The Industrial Heritage: Managing Resources and Uses
The Industrial Heritage: Managing Resources and Uses is the first integrated approach to the assessment, conservation, interpretation, financing and management for the complex heritage of industrial cultures. It breaks new...
Creating the British Galleries at the V&A: A Study in Museology
$50.00 AUD
The creation of the British Galleries 1500-1900 at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, was the largest gallery project for 50 years at the world's most important museum of design...
French Moderns: Monet to Matisse 1850-1950
The years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II were characterised by profound social, intellectual and political change in France. The art world, centred in...
European Masters: Stadel Museum, 19th-20th Century
$40.00 AUD
The title gives an impressive overview of the developments during the 19th and 20th centuries, from classical modern art, impressionism and symbolism to expressionism and abstract art. The book contains...
Our Happy Life: Architecture and Well-Being in the Age of Emotional
The architectural implications of the intangible guidelines of happiness indexes, the new marketplace of emotions. and the relentless ideology of positivity.How do we design our cities when our most intimate...
Museum Basics
Drawing from a wide range of experience, the authors propose the simple ideas which should underpin all professional museum training courses. Organised on a modular basis Museum Basics provides a...
All the Beauty in the World: A Museum Guard's Adventures in Life, Loss
$26.99 AUD
A moving, revelatory story about one of the world's great museums and art's capacity to heal, by a writer who spent a decade as a museum guard. ** THE NEW...
Barcelona Museums
$8.00 AUD
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Public Properties: Museums in Imperial Japan
In the late nineteenth century, Japan's new Meiji government established museums to showcase a national aesthetic heritage. Inspired by Western museums and expositions, these institutions were introduced by government officials...
The exhibitionists: A History of Sydney's Art Gallery of New South Wales
Author: Steven MillerFormat: Hardback, 218mm x 250mm, 1300g, 288 pagesPublished: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia, 2021In 2021, the Art Gallery of New South Wales celebrates its 150th anniversary....
The Art Museum in Modern Times
Author: Charles Saumarez SmithFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 770g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw...
Diaries: 1967-87
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