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"Principles of Museum Design: A Guide to Museum Design Requirements and Process" is a comprehensive book that explains the fundamental requirements of museum design. It covers different topics that are very easy to understand and practice while designing a museum. The ebook has a vast range of topics, let's see a glimpse of a few:1: Overview of Museum Design2: Importance of Effective Museum Design3: Historical Evolution of Museum Design Concepts4:...
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*Shortlisted for the Bread and Roses Prize, 2016*
*Shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, 2015*
* Shortlisted for the Academy of British Cover Design Awards, 2015*
Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company's sponsorship of the arts in Britain. Based on the high profile campaign 'Liberate Tate', Mel Evans targets Chevron, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell's collaboration with institutions such as the Tate...
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The discovery of a previously unknown painting by an Italian Renaissance master, and how it went from media sensation to career-ending scandal.
On the eve of its centennial celebrations in December 1969, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts announced the acquisition of an unknown and uncatalogued painting attributed to Raphael. Boston's coup made headlines around the world. Soon afterward, an Italian art sleuth began investigating the details of the painting's...
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From museums and the preservation of old buildings to broader questions of community and identity, heritage is now a political issue.
This book explores what heritage means now heritage is big business and how it is used to encourage people to identify with particular places and 'traditions', now it is entangled with capitalism. Examining a range of questions, including the way contemporary societies use heritage in the creation and management...
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New York Times 'Best Art Books' 2020
'Essential' – Sunday Times
'Brilliantly enraged' - New York Review of Books
'A real game-changer'– Economist
Walk into any Western museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objects are all stolen.
Few artefacts embody this history...
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