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For decades racism and social inequity have stayed at the center of the national conversation in the United States, sustaining the debate around public historic places and monuments and what they represent. These conversations are a reminder of the crucial role that public history professionals play in engaging public audiences on subjects of race and slavery. This "difficult history" has often remained un- or underexplored in our public discourse,...
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This book is the result of a scholarly intervention into the space of the Kraków Ethnographic Museum. While reflecting on one specific project, it opens many questions relevant for reformulating our ideas about both the museum and the academy. The project's approach to intellectual deliberation is horizontal, engaging students on equal footing with professors, resulting in a publication that embodies collaborative practice. It is also a unique example...
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Como promotores del desarrollo científico, humanístico y cultural de la humanidad, las universidades han desempeñado un importante papel en cuanto a la custodia, el cuidado, la investigación y la preservación de bienes culturales y naturales de gran interés social. Pero además, en el seno de las universidades se generan piezas, colecciones y expresiones culturales que, con el paso de los años, llegan a adquirir una categoría patrimonial....
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El libro versa sobre el proceso de renovación de los museos y centros de ciencias (MCC), y aporta una reflexión sobre la importancia de estos espacios dentro del entorno social, económico y cultural en el que vivimos. Idealmente, el resultado de esta reflexión debería guiar el proceso de renovación para ajustarlo a nuestra realidad y alcanzar cabalmente los objetivos de fomentar el desarrollo de una cultura científica y del pensamiento crítico...
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En este texto que pretende la reflexión en torno a la labor curatorial y pedagógica se desarrollan varios planteamientos e instrumentos en relación con el ejercicio educativo y las prácticas curatoriales en el museo, abordando tópicos como el tiempo libre, los visitantes en los museos, la museología y museografía críticas, las inteligencias múltiples, las tecnociencias, las humanidades y el arte, y la educación y la práctica curatorial...
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Although the Smithsonian Institution has grown to be over a hundred years old, no full-length account of its various collections and fascinating activities had ever been written before Mr. True put them down here in 1950.
Founded through a generous bequest by a lonely Englishman who had never visited this country, The Smithsonian, often identified with its headquarters in the quaint Norman castle on the Mall in Washington D.C., also includes the...
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En esta obra, Diana Cazaux realiza un recorrido que va desde el nacimiento de los museos de ciencia, los antiguos gabinetes de curiosidades, hasta los modernos centros interactivos de ciencia y tecnología.
La autora evidencia que el museo no es solo un cúmulo de objetos exhibidos sino ideas, conceptos, símbolos, que son los que significan a dichos objetos y recrean su sentido.
Asimismo, argumenta cómo los museos de ciencia son espacios excelentes...
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El libro «El 'Museu del Tèxtil Valencià' de Ontinyent» comprende un breve análisis del sector textil de la Vall d'Albaida, una descripción de las necesidades de crear un marco idóneo donde mostrar los distintos procesos de elaboración desde una perspectiva histórica que situaron a esta comarca como el principal centro productor textil valenciano, la exposición de la problemática que rodeó la puesta en valor de este sector y, finalmente,...
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Et si l'art présageait du futur ?
« L'art, plus qu'aucune autre activité, aidera à nous convaincre de l'urgence. C'est sa grandeur et ce sera sa responsabilité, parce qu'il est à l'avant-garde de toutes les audaces » (Jacques Attali).
La rencontre inédite entre un essai, Une brève histoire de l'avenir de Jacques Attali, et le monde de l'art contemporain à l'occasion de l'exposition aux Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique (11.09.2015...
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“The Katcina Altars in Hopi Worship” is a non-fiction book written by Jesse Walter Fewkes. The book explores the religious practices and beliefs of the Hopi people, with a particular focus on their use of Katcina altars in their worship. The Hopi are a Native American tribe who live in the southwestern United States, primarily in the state of Arizona. The tribe has a rich and complex religious tradition, which centers around the worship of Katcinas,...
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What if we could foretell the future through art?
"More than any other activity, art will help to convince us of the urgency. This is its greatness and will be its responsibility, as art lies at the forefront of boldness" (Jacques Attali).
The meeting of an essay, A Brief History of the Future by Jacques Attali, and the world of contemporary art on the occasion of the exhibition organized by the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium (11.09.2015...
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A Look into the Privileged World of the American Aristocracy of the Early Twentieth Century
Flora Miller Biddle was born a blue blood. The granddaughter of the Whitney museum founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, her childhood played out in a sort of Wharton landscape as she was shielded from the woes of the world.
But money itself is not the source of happiness. Glimpses into the elegance of a Vanderbilt ball thrown by her great-grandparents and...
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In 2010, five magnificent Blackfoot shirts, now owned by the University of Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, were brought to Alberta to be exhibited at the Glenbow Museum, in Calgary, and the Galt Museum, in Lethbridge. The shirts had not returned to Blackfoot territory since 1841, when officers of the Hudson's Bay Company acquired them. The shirts were later transported to England, where they had remained ever since. Exhibiting the shirts at the museums...
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Partez à la découverte des collections et des musées avec ce Grand Article Universalis !
Il n'est pas d'objet naturel ou d'artefact qui ne puisse être collectionné. Œuvres d'art, spécimens de l'histoire naturelle, vestiges et documents historiques, objets témoins de l'histoire des sciences et techniques, reliques du monde du travail et de la vie quotidienne : tout objet est susceptible d'être collectionné.
Un ouvrage spécialement conçu...
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The National Frame rethinks the politics of art by focusing on the role of art in state governance. It argues that artistic practices, arts patronage and sponsorship, collecting and curating art, and the modalities of censorship, continue to be refracted through the conceptual lens of the nation-state, despite the globalization of the arts.
Based on long-term ethnographic research in the art worlds of Istanbul and Berlin, The National Frame rethinks...
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In 1996 Jacques Derrida gave a lecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York on the occasion of Antonin Artaud: Works on Paper, one of the first major international exhibitions to present the avant-garde dramatist and poet's paintings and drawings. Derrida's original title, "Artaud the Moma," is a characteristic play on words. It alludes to Artaud's calling himself Mômo, Marseilles slang for "fool," upon his return to Paris in 1946 after nine years...
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The renowned curator gives a personal tour of his journey from archeology to the Met, the Jewish Museum, and helping found the Israel Museum.
In The Exhibitionist, museum director Karl Katz discusses his tireless, impassioned work spanning six decades and numerous countries. As a young man, Karl traveled to the newly-formed state of Israel to pursue archaeology, only to be thrust into the role of directing the Bezalel National Art Museum in Jerusalem....
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In 1990, Gerald Conaty was hired as senior curator of ethnology at the Glenbow Museum, with the particular mandate of improving the museum's relationship with Aboriginal communities. That same year, the Glenbow had taken its first tentative steps toward repatriation by returning sacred objects to First Nations' peoples. These efforts drew harsh criticism from members of the provincial government. Was it not the museum's primary legal, ethical, and...
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This book provides a holistic view of the relationship between heritage and sport. It examines four types of sport heritage: tangible immovable sport heritage (sports venues, monuments and memorials, landscapes), tangible movable sport heritage (museums and halls of fame, events, living sport heritage), intangible sport heritage (intangibility of sport heritage, institutions, existential), and goods and services with a sport heritage component (tourism,...
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