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Paperback. A fascinating collection of postcards from the early twentieth century. Series: The Postcard Collection. Num Pages: 96 pages, 160. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JH; 3JJ; GM; HBTB; WQP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 233 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445661131
- ISBN
- 9781445661131
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.85
€ 26.85
Hardback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 38 illustrations. BIC Classification: DSB; GM; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 25. Weight in Grams: 880.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271029917
- ISBN
- 9780271029917
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 72.10€ 60.75
€ 72.10
€ 60.75
paperback. The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the enlightenment, a manifestation of European society's growing belief that the spread of knowledge, promotion of intellectual inquiry, and trust in individual agency were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. This title takes us on a brief tour of the modern museum. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 160 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226100913
- ISBN
- 9780226100913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.37
€ 19.99
€ 17.37
Hardcover. This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology that makes these new ways of engaging with art and history possible. Editor(s): Legene, Susan; Van Den Akker, Chiel. Num Pages: 142 pages, 6 black and white; 4 full color. BIC Classification: AB; GM; PD; UBJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 242 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Amsterdam University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789089646613
- ISBN
- 9789089646613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 117.46
€ 117.46
Hardback. Museums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums in England, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States in engaging in public discourse, and gauges their ability to operate as sites of democratic public space. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: GM; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 163 x 16. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405173834
- ISBN
- 9781405173834
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 114.48
€ 114.48
Paperback. Museums and the Public Sphere investigates the role of museums in England, Hong Kong, Australia and the United States in engaging in public discourse, and gauges their ability to operate as sites of democratic public space. Num Pages: 206 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1FPCH; 1KBB; 1MBF; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 161 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Number of pages
- 206
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781118274835
- ISBN
- 9781118274835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.34
€ 42.34
Hardback. This vibrant examination of the museum's role as contemporary narrator of our past reveals that our perceptions of history and ourselves are shaped as much by how a museum presents information as by what information it presents. Editor(s): Gosselin, Viviane. Num Pages: 624 pages, 16 b&w photos, 6 tables. BIC Classification: GM; HB; JNAM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 164 x 24. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774830614
- ISBN
- 9780774830614
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 106.94
€ 106.94
Paperback. This is a multi-disciplinary study that adopts an innovative and original approach to a highly topical question, that of meaning-making in museums. Series: Museum Meanings. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 black & white tables. BIC Classification: GM; JFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 245 x 174 x 14. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415086332
- ISBN
- 9780415086332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.77
€ 53.77
Paperback. This volume considers museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields, the essays range widely over time and place, in exhibitions explored, and types of institutions. Editor(s): Crane, Susan A. Series: Cultural Sitings. Num Pages: 272 pages, 29 half-tones. BIC Classification: GM; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 17. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804735650
- ISBN
- 9780804735650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.83
€ 33.99
€ 30.83
Paperback. The prioritisation of learning in museums in the context of demands for social justice and cultural democracy combined with cultural policy based on economic rationalism forces museums to review their educational purposes, redesign their pedagogies and account for their performance. This book reveals the power of museum pedagogy. Series: Museum Meanings. Num Pages: 252 pages, 31 black & white tables, 20 black & white halftones, 15 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GM; JN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 171 x 14. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415379366
- ISBN
- 9780415379366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.23
€ 51.23
Paperback. How museums construct themselves, their collections, and their publics Editor(s): Sherman, Daniel J. Series: 21st Century Studies. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 559.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253219350
- ISBN
- 9780253219350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.67
€ 32.99
€ 29.67
Paperback. Essays exploring the relationship between museums and biographies, with worldwide examples and from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Editor(s): Hill, Kate. Series: Heritage Matters. Num Pages: 348 pages, 49 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 245 x 22. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843839613
- ISBN
- 9781843839613
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 30.91
€ 35.99
€ 30.91
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 348
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843837275
- ISBN
- 9781843837275
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.88
€ 115.88
Paperback. Examining various museums, this text argues that Americans built the institutions with the confidence that they could collect, organize, and display the sum of the world's knowledge. It discovers how they gave definition to different bodies of knowledge and how that knowledge was presented. Num Pages: 310 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; GM; HBJK; HBLL; JFCX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226114934
- ISBN
- 9780226114934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 27.84
€ 34.99
€ 27.84
Hardback. * Examines the most important issues at the heart of contemporary debates in museum studies. * Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historians. * Engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art-exhibiting. * Edited by the world-renowned art historian and author, Griselda Pollock. Editor(s): Pollock, Griselda; Zemans, Joyce. Series: New Interventions in Art History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 49 illustrations. BIC Classification: ABC; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136273
- ISBN
- 9781405136273
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 133.46
€ 133.46
Paperback. * Examines the most important issues at the heart of contemporary debates in museum studies. * Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historians. * Engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art-exhibiting. * Edited by the world-renowned art historian and author, Griselda Pollock. Editor(s): Pollock, Griselda; Zemans, Joyce. Series: New Interventions in Art History. Num Pages: 272 pages, 49. BIC Classification: ABC; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405136280
- ISBN
- 9781405136280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.13
€ 51.13
Paperback. Has corporate business overtaken the art world? It's no secret that art and business have always mixed, but their relationship today sparks more questions than ever. Written in a witty and argumentative style, this book describes the art conglomerates from an insider's perspective, probing how their roots run deep into corporate culture. Num Pages: 115 pages. BIC Classification: AB; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 120 x 5. Weight in Grams: 74.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Prickly Paradigm Press, LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 115
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780976147510
- ISBN
- 9780976147510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.65
€ 13.99
€ 12.65
Paperback. Updated to reflect the latest developments in twenty-first century museum scholarship, the new Second Edition of Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts presents a comprehensive collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture and philosophy. Editor(s): Carbonell, Bettina Messias. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 190 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1122.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 680
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405173810
- ISBN
- 9781405173810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 52.00
€ 52.99
€ 52.00
Hardcover. Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary collection of approaches to museums and their relation to history, culture, philosophy and their adoring or combative publics. aeo Brings together for the first time a wide array of texts that mix contemporary analysis with historical documentation. Editor(s): Carbonell, Bettina Messias. Num Pages: 680 pages. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 261 x 189 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1496.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 680
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780631228257
- ISBN
- 9780631228257
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 179.03
€ 179.03
Paperback. Traces the birth, evolution, and decline of the public art museum as an institution meant to spark democratic debate and discussion. Num Pages: 328 pages, 22 illustrations. BIC Classification: AC; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 174 x 20. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 328
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822336945
- ISBN
- 9780822336945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.44
€ 31.99
€ 28.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 150 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816619894
- ISBN
- 9780816619894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Hardcover. Num Pages: 374 pages, colour photos. BIC Classification: GM; JFSR2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 321 x 271 x 32. Weight in Grams: 2492.
- Publisher
- Blue Dome Press United States
- Number of pages
- 374
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935295020
- ISBN
- 9781935295020
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.14€ 46.20
€ 59.14
€ 46.20
Paperback. The author shows how museum culture offers a unique vantage point on the 19th and 20th centuries' preoccupation with history and subjectivity, and demonstrates how the constitution of the aesthetic provides insight into the realms of technology, industrial culture, architecture, and ethics. Series: Cultural Memory in the Present. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations facsimiles, port. BIC Classification: ABA; GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804736046
- ISBN
- 9780804736046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.70
€ 32.99
€ 29.70
Paperback. Offers information about objects and people in museums and galleries. This book addresses fundamental issues of human sensory, emotional and aesthetic experience of objects. It is divided into three sections - Objects, Engagements, and Interpretations. It examines materiality and other perceptual and ontological qualities of objects themselves. Editor(s): Dudley, Sandra. Num Pages: 312 pages, 60 black & white halftones, 20 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 177 x 246 x 19. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415492188
- ISBN
- 9780415492188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.02
€ 51.02