Download or read book Museums of India written by Mahua Chakrabarti and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Directory of Museums in India written by C. Sivaramamurti and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The India Museum 1801 1879 written by Ray Desmond and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: index
Download or read book Museum Dialogue in India written by Rama Lakshmi and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first-ever compilation of essays by cultural practitioners about the changing and unchanging dynamics of India's museum landscape. The essays highlight Indian cultural institutions' ambitious beginnings, missed opportunities along the way, and the canvas for future imaginings. At a time when museums in India are undergoing a sea change, this publication provides an invaluable insight into museum design, curatorial narratives, documentation and cataloguing and visitors' experience that will soon redefine museum perspectives in India. The book is a welcome resource for all museum planners, curators, conservators and researchers in the field.
Download or read book Cultural Tourism in India written by Swarajya Prakash Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book Explores Various Facets Of Indian Social And Cultural Thought And Life That Make The Country An Attractive Tourist Site: Its People, History, Arts, Food And Drink, Customs And Lifestyle. It Includes A Variety Of Discussions And Data On Tourism: Tourism-Related Organisations And Conventions, Eco-Tourism And India S Wildlife Scenario, For Instance.
Download or read book Delhi a City of Museums written by Satyen Mohapatra and published by books catalog. This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably the first book of its kind, Delhi : A City of Museums is a beautifully designed guide and reference book for tourists and art, history and culture enthusiasts. Delhi showcases the country's absorbing geographical, political, social and art history in the range of facinating museums found within its limits, and just outside. The author has compiled in this volume a bird's eye view of ten important museums in the city. Each chapter is a walk through the history of the exhibits of each museum, and is lavishly illustrated by a set of striking photographs. The narraion reflects the painstaking reserach and infectious enthusiasm of the author, as well as an abiding interest, closing the gap between the wealth of information that museums provide and our own lives. Contents : Acknowledgements / Photo Credits / Foreword / Map of Museums in Delhi / Introduction / National Museum of National History / Crafts Museum / Sanskriti Museum of Everyday Art / Maritime Heritage Gallery / National Rail Museum / Air Force Museum / National Philatelic Museum / Gallery of Musical Instruments / National Gallery of Modern Art / National Museum / Appendix 1 / Appendix 2 / References.
Download or read book The Arts of India Southeast Asia and the Himalayas at the Dallas Museum of Art written by Dallas Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, the Dallas Museum of Art has expanded its collection of South Asian art from a small number of Indian temple sculptures to nearly 500 works, including Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, Himalayan Buddhist bronze sculptures and ritual objects, artwork from Southeast Asia, and decorative arts from India's Mughal period. Artworks in the collection have origins from the former Ottoman empire to Java, and architectural pieces suggest the grandeur of buildings in the Indian tradition. This volume details the cultural and artistic significance of more than 140 featured works, which range from Tibetan thangkas and Indian miniature paintings to stone sculptures and bronzes. Relating these works to one another through interconnecting narratives and cross-references, scholars and curators provide a broad cultural history of the region. Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
Download or read book Museum of Chance written by Dayanita Singh and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Museum of Chance is the first publication of Museum Bhavan, which is a collection of museums made by Dayanita Singh in New Delhi. The museums hoiuse old and new images made by the artist. Each wooden structure can be placed and opened in different ways, and holds around a hundred framed images, some on view, while others wait for their turn in the reserve collection, also kept inside the structures. As Singh keeps adding images to the museums, the museums themselves give birth to other museums. For example, the Museum of Embraces comes out of the Museum of Chance, and the Museum of Vitrines is contained within the Museum of Furniture. This publication is a mass produced artist book for the museum by the same name. Each image in the book is a cover image on one of the books."--Colophon.
Download or read book Museums written by John E. Simmons and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-07-07 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive history of museums begins with the origins of collecting in prehistory and traces the evolution of museums from grave goods to treasure troves, from the Alexandrian Temple of the Muses to the Renaissance cabinets of curiosities, and onto the diverse array of modern institutions worldwide. The development of museums as public institutions is explored in the context of world history with a special emphasis on the significance of objects and collecting. The book examines how the successful exportation of the European museum model and its international adaptations have created public institutions that are critical tools in diverse societies for understanding the world. Rather than focusing on a specialized aspect of museum history, this volume provides a comprehensive synthesis of museums worldwide from their earliest origins to the present. Museums: A History tells the fascinating story of how museums respond to the needs of the cultures that create them. Readers will come away with an understanding of: the comprehensive history of museums from prehistoric collections to the present the evolution of museums presented in the context of world history the development of museums considered in diverse cultural contexts global perspective on museums the object-centered history of museums museums as memory institutions A constant theme throughout the book is that ,useums have evolved to become institutions in which objects and learning are associated to help human beings understand the world around them. Illustrations amplify the discussions.
Download or read book Translating Museums written by Shaila Bhatti and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the dominant museological model to date. This examination of the Lahore Museum's objects, staff, and visitors (past and present) provides an informative case study that reveals local perceptions and uses of museums in non-Western societies to be fraught with social, political, and cultural implications and appropriations. Through Lahore, Bhatti examines the history of exchange between Britian and South Asia and advances our current understanding of what constitutes postcolonial museum interpretation and its public.
Download or read book Epic Tales from Ancient India written by San Diego Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian Painting and the Art of Storytelling / Marika Sardar -- Incarnations of the Bhagavata / Neeraja Poddar -- The Ramayana and Other Tales of Rama / Marika Sardar -- Stories of Music, Love, and the Seasons: Ragamala Paintings / Marika Sardar -- Persian-Language Literature in India / Qamar Adamjee -- The Shahmana in India / Alka Patel
Download or read book Company Curiosities written by Arthur MacGregor and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three hundred years, the East India Company dominated British trade and relations with Asia. It made handsome profits for shareholders but also provided collectors in Europe with natural specimens and man-made rarities that were prized for their scientific, aesthetic or cultural value. An array of administrators, soldiers, surveyors spent much of their lives attempting to inventory and to comprehend India's vast country, its teeming populations and its myriad rituals and wildlife: nearly forty species of mammals and over 120 species of birds were discovered in the Katmandu valley alone; astonishing wall paintings from the fifth-century were unearthed in caves at Ajanta; and spectacular fossil fauna arrived from the Siwalik Hills. Company Curiosities: Nature, Culture and the East India Company, 1600-1874 offers the first-ever overview of the remarkable role of the East India Company and its servants in collecting and showcasing a treasure-house of natural specimens and man-made objects - craft materials, paintings and sculptures, weapons, costumes, jewels and ornaments - that established the look and the feel of India for those who had never ventured abroad. Arthur MacGregor tells the stories behind the remarkable discoveries and collections, and those responsible for them, and their impact on natural science, commerce and industry, and personal taste.
Download or read book The City Palace Museum Udaipur written by Andrew Topsfield and published by Mapin Publishing Pvt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These paintings reveal the resilient imagination of the traditional Mewar artists under the influences of the Mughal School and later of Western art and photography.
Download or read book Museums and Communities written by Ivan Karp and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributors to this volume examine and illustrate struggles and collaborations among museums, festivals, tourism, and historic preservation projects and the communities they represent and serve. Essays include the role of museums in civil society, the history of African-American collections, and experiments with museum-community dialogue about the design of a multicultural society.
Download or read book Treasures written by National Museum of India and published by Niyogi Books. This book was released on 2015 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights the treasures of the National Museum New Delhi. The museum has over 2,10,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of Indian art and craftsmanship. The collection includes sculptures in stone, bronze, terracotta and wood, miniature paintings and manuscripts, coins, arms and armor, jewelry and anthropological objects. Antiquities from Central Asia and pre-Columbian artefacts form the two non-Indian collections in the museum. The museum is the custodian of this treasure trove of our multilayered history and multicultural heritage. The collection allows Indian visitors to feel a sense of pride in their ancient culture and identity and enable visitors from other countries to appreciate India's culture and its values.
Download or read book Museums Matter written by James Cuno and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Powerful, passionate, and to the point, this book is the product of a lifetime of working in and thinking about museums; no museumgoer should miss it. The book is an impassioned argument for what Cuno calls the 'cosmopolitan aspirations' encyclopedic museums.
Download or read book An Illustrated Guide to Museums of India written by Shobita Punja and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
