Collections category: 673 books
Guide to Photographs in the Western History Collections of the University of Oklahoma
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2014
Begun in 1927 by University of Oklahoma history professor Edward Everett Dale, the Western History Collections gathers and preserves rare research materials for scholars in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history, and the history of the American West. This guide has been compiled to...
by Michelle Hetherington
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Discovering Cooks Collections focuses on the collections of art and material culture brought back from the Pacific on Captain Cooks voyages and contains essays by some of the worlds leading and most innovative historians and anthropologists. The book celebrates the richness of Pacific Island cultures...
Crossroads of Culture
Anthropology Collections at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2010
The hectic front of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science hides an unseen back of the museum that is also bustling. Less than 1 percent of the museum's collections are on display at any given time, and the Department of Anthropology alone cares for more than 50,000 objects from every corner of...
Exhibiting Madness in Museums
Remembering Psychiatry Through Collection and Display
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
While much has been written on the history of psychiatry, remarkably little has been written about psychiatric collections or curating. Exhibiting Madness in Museums offers a comparative history of independent and institutional collections of psychiatric objects in Australia, New Zealand, Canada and...
Museum Skepticism
A History of the Display of Art in Public Galleries
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2006
In Museum Skepticism, art historian David Carrier traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Carrier contends that since the inception of the public art museum during the French Revolution, its development has...
Malévitch dans les collections du Stedelijk Museum d'Amsterdam (Paris - 2003)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
«Nous devons méditer le fait que Malévitch a manqué de n'être qu'une trace mythologique dans l'histoire de l'art.» Comme le rappelle Jean-Claude Marcadé, spécialiste de son œuvre, dans le catalogue de cette exposition, sans d'heureux concours de circonstances et sans la clairvoyance de quelques...
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Maya. De l'aube au crépuscule. Collections nationales du Guatemala (Paris-2011)
Les Fiches Exposition d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Il faut remonter à 1968 pour trouver la trace d'une exposition consacrée en France à l'art maya du Guatemala. L'exposition présentée du 21 juin au 2 octobre 2011 au musée du quai Branly constitue donc une véritable découverte, en dépit de sa dimension restreinte...
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Salvator Rosa incisore nelle collezioni dellIstituto nazionale per la Grafica - Etchings by Salvator Rosa in the collections of the Istituto nazionale per la Grafica
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Catalogo della mostra presso Museo dell'Istituto nazionale per la Grafica, Roma 10 aprile – 29 giugno 2014 L'Istituto nazionale per la Grafica dedica una mostra a Salvator Rosa (1615-1673) esponendo il patrimonio di stampe, disegni e matrici dalle sue collezioni, in vista delle celebrazioni per...
by Elizabeth Edwards, Sigrid Lien
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Almost all museums hold photographs in their collections, and museum professionals and their audiences engage with photographs in a myriad of ways. Yet despite some three decades of critical museology and photographic theory, and an extensive debate on the politics of representation, outside art museums,...
Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
The Burlington Fine Arts Club
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen’s club with a singular remit – to exhibit members’ art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized, and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians,...
Conversation Pieces
Inspirational objects in UCL’s historic collections
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
This book, beautifully illustrated with specially commissioned photography, is a celebration of UCL's unique collections, with leading academics from the university invited to select and write about an object each found inspiring. From a jar of moles to an Egyptian unguent spoon, a finger X-ray to...
Collection / Musée
Les Grands Articles d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: February 13, 2017
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...
by Jacques François Aubert, Liliane Aubert
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Pour les Égyptiens, l’accès au séjour éternel nécessitait une préparation funéraire appropriée et tout défunt se devait d’avoir à ses côtés une armée de serviteurs destinés à le suppléer pour tous les travaux susceptibles de lui être imposés dans l’au-delà. Ces statuettes...
by Collectif
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
This publication brings together an outstanding ensemble of works by artist “explorers” selected from France’s national collections. Whatever the terrain — on land or at the depths of the ocean, real, virtual or even at the farthest limits of the subconscious — exploration remains a quest,...