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Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium by James Putnam 9780500288351
RRP: $25.74$18.49From 'cabinets of curiosities' to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museum - display, archiving, classification, storage,... -
Heritage: A History of How We Conserve Our Past by James Stourton
RRP: $51.60$36.62What is heritage? When was it invented? What is its place in the world today? What is its place tomorrow? Heritage is all around us: millions belong to its organisations, tens of thousands volunteer for it, and politicians pay lip service to it. When... -
On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators by Carolee Thea 9781935202004
RRP: $34.83$22.47On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world today... -
Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There by Tiffany Jenkins
RRP: $21.92$16.24The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many... -
On The Line: The Story of the Greenwich Meridian by Royal Observatory, Greenwich 9781906367619
RRP: $11.60$8.27Every year, thousands of people come to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich to have their photograph taken on the line of the Prime Meridian - longitude 0 Degrees - as they stand in the eastern and western hemispheres at the same time. But what is the... -
Curating Art Now: Changed Worlds, Uncertain Futures by Lilian Cameron
RRP: $25.79$19.65Curating Art Now is a timely reflection on the practice of curating and the role of the art curator during a period of rapid change. Curating has a pivotal position in the art world: it is embedded in the identity and expertise of the museum... -
Art, Passion & Power: The Story of the Royal Collection by Michael Hall
RRP: $38.70$29.09"Hall's consummate history is not just the story of the evolution of one of the world's great collections... The book is also a through-the-keyhole insight into the shifting tastes, good or bad, of 1,000 years of monarchs."- The TimesThe Royal Collection... -
Masterpieces: An Art Lover's Guide to Great Britain and Ireland by Christopher Lloyd
RRP: $25.80$16.81An expert guide to the highlights and unexpected treasures of British collections. If you find yourself in Hull, Cork or Dundee, what paintings should you go and look at? Many masterpieces are waiting for you around the British Isles, sometimes... -
Museums and the Climate Crisis Nick Merriman (Horniman Museum and Gardens in London, UK.) 9781032389417
RRP: $47.72$41.96Museums and the Climate Crisis shows how museums can respond to the interrelated global climate, biodiversity and pollution crises. They have a unique role because they take a long-term perspective, and their scholarship and independence mean that they... -
Decolonize Museums by Shimrit Lee
RRP: $19.34$15.04Behold the sleazy logic of museums: plunder dressed up as charity, conservation, and care.The idealized Western museum, as typified by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the British Museum, and the Museum of Natural History, has remained much the same... -
Harald Szeemann - Museum of Obsessions Glenn Phillips 9781606065594
RRP: $77.40$67.22Harald Szeemann is associated with some of the most important artistic developments of the postwar era. A passionate advocate of avant-garde movements like conceptualism and post minimalism, he collaborated with artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce... -
In the Shadow of Quetzalcoatl: Zelia Nuttall and the Search for Mexico’s Ancient Civilizations by Merilee Grindle 9780674278332
RRP: $36.06$28.57"What a woman! And what a fabulous life to unearth. Zelia Nuttall was incredibly smart, determined, a divorced single mother in a man's world, a great scholar, and an original thinker-yet today she's completely forgotten. Merilee Grindle has dug deep... -
Conservation of Easel Paintings by Joyce Hill Stoner 9780367547646
RRP: $89.00$79.88Conservation of Easel Paintings, Second Edition provides a much-anticipated update to the previous edition, which has come to be known internationally as an invaluable and comprehensive text on the history, philosophy and methods of the treatment of... -
The Museums and Collections of Higher Education Andrew Simpson 9781032030074
RRP: $46.43$40.88The Museums and Collections of Higher Education provides an analysis of the historic connections between materiality and higher education, developed through diverse examples of global practice. Outlining the different value propositions that museums and... -
Curating Access: Disability Art Activism and Creative Accommodation by Amanda Cachia 9780367775735
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book is an interdisciplinary collection of twenty-four essays which critically examine contemporary exhibitions and artistic practices that focus on conceptual and creative aspects of access.Oftentimes exhibitions tack on access once the artwork has... -
Temple of Science: The Pre-Raphaelites and Oxford University Museum of Natural History John Holmes 9781851245567
RRP: $45.15$38.15Built between 1855 and 1860, Oxford University Museum of Natural History is the extraordinary result of close collaboration between artists and scientists. Inspired by John Ruskin, the architect Benjamin Woodward and the Oxford scientists worked with... -
Stegosaurus by Paul M. Barrett 9780565093884
RRP: $11.60$8.00The incredible new dinosaur that dominates the Earth Hall of the Natural History Museum is the most intact Stegosaurus fossilskeleton ever found. Measuring nearly 6 metres long from head to tail, around 90% of the animal - nicknamed Sophie - is... -
Understanding Heritage and Memory by Tim Benton
RRP: $32.24$23.62Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by 'virtual', 'intangible' and 'multicultural'... -
Beatrice von Bismarck - The Curatorial Condition by Beatrice von Bismarck
$27.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783956795343Author Beatrice Von BismarckFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 232mm... -
Heritage and Sport: An Introduction by Gregory Ramshaw 9781845417017
RRP: $38.64$34.71This 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... -
An Introduction to the Making of Western Art: Materiality, Preservation and Change by Susan L. Green 9781032408170
RRP: $46.43$40.88This book is the first introduction to Western art that not only considers how choice of materials can impact form, but also how objects in different media can alter in appearance over time, and the role of conservators in the preservation of our... -
Cultural Heritage and the Future Cornelius Holtorf 9781138829015
RRP: $49.01$43.06Cultural Heritage and the Future brings together an international group of scholars and experts to consider the relationship between cultural heritage and the future.Drawing on case studies from around the world, the contributing authors insist that... -
Treasures of the Natural History Museum: (Pocket edition) Natural History Museum 9780565095482
RRP: $19.34$12.64The Natural History Museum, London is home to one of the world's most important collections of natural history specimens, literature and artworks. This book showcases treasures, selected both from objects on display and those stored behind the scenes... -
Making Sense of Place - Multidisciplinary Perspectives by Dr. Ian Convery 9781843838999
RRP: $34.82$29.50The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups define themselves and their relationship to their natural and cultural environments, and which... -
The Museum Experience Revisited John H Falk 9781611320459
RRP: $49.01$43.06The first book to take a "visitor's eye view" of the museum visit when it was first published in 1992, The Museum Experience revolutionized the way museum professionals understand their constituents. Falk and Dierking have updated this essential... -
Dippy: The Tale of a Museum Icon by Paul Barrett 9780565092597 [USED COPY]
RRP: $9.02$2.41The 26-metre-long Diplodocus skeleton that dominates the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum in London is one of the world's most famous dinosaur models. Known affectionately as 'Dippy', it has fascinated and enthralled visitors since it was first... -
Dippy: The Tale of a Museum Icon by Paul Barrett 9780565092597
RRP: $9.02$6.45The 26-metre-long Diplodocus skeleton that dominates the Central Hall of the Natural History Museum in London is one of the world's most famous dinosaur models. Known affectionately as 'Dippy', it has fascinated and enthralled visitors since it was first... -
The Elgin Marbles: The Case for Restitution by Christopher Hitchens
RRP: $19.34$17.74The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the... -
The Life of Forms in Art: Modernism, Organism, Vitality by Brandon Taylor 9781501356018
RRP: $38.70$34.42What is form in modern art? How could a work of art achieve its organic life in a world increasingly dominated by mechanism, by new technology? In this new book, Brandon Taylor proposes that biology and the life sciences themselves supplied many of the... -
Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift by Gail Anderson 9780759119659
RRP: $82.56$73.17Reinventing the Museum: The Evolving Conversation on the Paradigm Shift offers 44 seminal articles representing the changing perspectives about the role of museums in contemporary times. The book includes iconic pieces from the 20th century and presents... -
Creating the V&A: Victoria and Albert's Museum (1851-1861) by Julius Bryant
RRP: $51.54$40.39Creating the V&A tells the definitive story of the formative years of London's world-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum and the gathering of its early collections in the decade between the Great Exhibition of 1851 and the death of Prince Albert in... -
The Little(r) Museums of Paris: An Illustrated Guide to the City's Hidden Gems by Emma Jacobs
RRP: $20.63$16.41A visit to Paris can often seen like a highlight reel -- the Louvre, the Musee d'Orsay, the Eiffel Tower. But Paris isn't only about the big attractions; in fact, some might say it's the off-beat destinations that hold the greatest treasures. The... -
Museum Activism Robert R. Janes 9780815369974
RRP: $56.75$49.59Only a decade ago, the notion that museums, galleries and heritage organisations might engage in activist practice, with explicit intent to act upon inequalities, injustices and environmental crises, was met with scepticism and often derision. Seeking to... -
Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace: An Introductory Guide Colin Breen (Associate Head of the School of Geography and Environmental Sciences at Ulster University, Northern Ireland.) 9781032509389
RRP: $47.72$41.96Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in... -
Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene by Giovanni Aloi
RRP: $36.12$28.12Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive... -
Engaging the Senses: Object-Based Learning in Higher Education Helen J. Chatterjee 9780815399575
RRP: $47.72$41.96The use of museum collections as a path to learning for university students is fast becoming a new pedagogy for higher education. Despite a strong tradition of using lectures as a way of delivering the curriculum, the positive benefits of 'active' and... -
Museum Basics: The International Handbook Timothy Ambrose (Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, UK and a Fellow of the Museums Association, UK) 9781138292475
RRP: $51.59$46.52This fourth edition of Museum Basics has been produced for use in the many museums worldwide that operate with few professional staff and limited resources. The fourth edition has been fully updated to reflect the many changes that have taken place in... -
Scotland to the World: Treasures from the National Museum of Scotland David Souden 9781910682050
RRP: $38.70$33.24Showcases over a hundred treasures from the collections of the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh, from the departments of Scottish History and Archaeology/Art and Design/Science and Technology/Natural Sciences/World Cultures. ... -
Cathedrals of Light and Life: Images of inspiration and heritage from the 42 Anglican Cathedrals of England by Revd Len Abrams
RRP: $32.12$26.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916385108Author Revd Len AbramsFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Season ImagesPublisher Season ImagesDimensions(mm) 297mm * 210mm * 16mm -
Still Life: Ecologies of the Modern Imagination at the Art Museum by Fernando Dominguez Rubio
RRP: $39.99$39.46How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal--or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that...