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Book Stewards of the Nation s Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Andrea Geddes Poole
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2010-02-13
  • ISBN : 1442698713
  • Pages : 333 pages

Download or read book Stewards of the Nation s Art written by Andrea Geddes Poole and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-02-13 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1890 and 1939, the groups of men involved in running Britain's four main public art galleries - the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery, the Wallace Collection, and the National Portrait Gallery - were embroiled in continuous power struggles. Stewards of the Nation's Art examines the internal tensions between the galleries' administrative directors, the aristocrats dominating the boards of trustees, and those in the Treasury who controlled the funds as well as board appointments. Andrea Geddes Poole uses meticulous primary research from all four of these institutions to discuss changing ideas about class, education, and work during this period. The conflicts between aristocratic trustees and administrative directors were not only about the running of the galleries, but also reflected the era's strain between aristocratic amateurs and nouveau riche professionals. Stewards of the Nation's Art is an absorbing study that explores the extent to which the aristocracy was able to hold on to cultural power in an increasingly professional and meritocratic age.

Book The Museum Age in Austria Hungary

Download or read book The Museum Age in Austria Hungary written by Matthew Rampley and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important critical study of the history of public art museums in Austria-Hungary explores their place in the wider history of European museums and collecting, their role as public institutions, and their involvement in the complex cultural politics of the Habsburg Empire. Focusing on institutions in Vienna, Cracow, Prague, Zagreb, and Budapest, The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary traces the evolution of museum culture over the long nineteenth century, from the 1784 installation of imperial art collections in the Belvedere Palace (as a gallery open to the public) to the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after the First World War. Drawing on source materials from across the empire, the authors reveal how the rise of museums and display was connected to growing tensions between the efforts of Viennese authorities to promote a cosmopolitan and multinational social, political, and cultural identity, on the one hand, and, on the other, the rights of national groups and cultures to self-expression. They demonstrate the ways in which museum collecting policies, practices of display, and architecture engaged with these political agendas and how museums reflected and enabled shifting forms of civic identity, emerging forms of professional practice, the production of knowledge, and the changing composition of the public sphere. Original in its approach and sweeping in scope, this fascinating study of the museum age of Austria-Hungary will be welcomed by students and scholars interested in the cultural and art history of Central Europe.

Book Stewards of Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Carol Borchert Cadou
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2018-11-27
  • ISBN : 0813941539
  • Pages : 280 pages

Download or read book Stewards of Memory written by Carol Borchert Cadou and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2018-11-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mount Vernon, despite its importance as the estate of George Washington, is subject to the same threats of time as any property and has required considerable resources and organization to endure as a historic site and house. This book provides a window into the broad scope of preservation work undertaken at Mount Vernon over the course of more than 160 years and places this work within the context of America’s regional and national preservation efforts. It was at Mount Vernon, beginning with efforts in 1853, that the American tradition of historic preservation truly took hold. As the nation’s oldest historic house museum, Mount Vernon offers a unique opportunity to chronicle preservation challenges and successes over time as well as to forecast those of the future. Stewards of Memory features essays by senior scholars who helped define American historic preservation in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, including Carl R. Lounsbury, George W. McDaniel, and Carter L. Hudgins. Their contributions—complemented by those of Scott E. Casper, Lydia Mattice Brandt, and Mount Vernon’s own preservation scholars—offer insights into the changing nature of the field. The multifaceted story told here will be invaluable to students of historic preservation, historic site professionals, specialists in the preservation field, and any reader with an interest in American historic preservation and Mount Vernon. Support provided by the David Bruce Smith Book Fund and the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon.

Book The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union

Download or read book The Marine Cooks and Stewards Union written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book William and Henry Walters  the Reticent Collectors

Download or read book William and Henry Walters the Reticent Collectors written by William R. Johnston and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999-10-25 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surprisingly, the story of how William Walters and his son Henry created one of the finest privately assembled museums in the United States has not been told."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Art of All Nations  1850 73

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  • Author : Elizabeth Basye Gilmore Holt
  • Publisher : Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN : 9780691039961
  • Pages : 606 pages

Download or read book The Art of All Nations 1850 73 written by Elizabeth Basye Gilmore Holt and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, The Art of All Nations, 1850-1873: The Emerging Role of Exhibitions and Critics, will be forthcoming.

Book A Methodical System of Universal Law

Download or read book A Methodical System of Universal Law written by Johann Gottlieb Heineccius and published by . This book was released on 1741 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Teacher of the Nations

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  • Author : Devin L. White
  • Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
  • Release : 2017-11-20
  • ISBN : 3110539551
  • Pages : 238 pages

Download or read book Teacher of the Nations written by Devin L. White and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-11-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines educational motifs in 1 Corinthians 1-4 in order to answer a question fundamental to the interpretation of 1 Corinthians: Do the opening chapters of 1 Corinthians contain a Pauline apology or a Pauline censure? The author argues that Paul characterizes the Corinthian community as an ancient school, a characterization Paul exploits both to defend himself as a good teacher and to censure the Corinthians as poor students.

Book Dictionary of Dates  and Universal Reference  Relating to All Ages and Nations     With Copious Details of England  Scotland  and Ireland  Etc

Download or read book Dictionary of Dates and Universal Reference Relating to All Ages and Nations With Copious Details of England Scotland and Ireland Etc written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1154 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Trading Fish  Saving Fish

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  • Author : Margaret A. Young
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2011-04-14
  • ISBN : 1139500457
  • Pages : 407 pages

Download or read book Trading Fish Saving Fish written by Margaret A. Young and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Numerous international legal regimes now seek to address the global depletion of fish stocks, and increasingly their activities overlap. The relevant laws were developed at different times by different groups of states. They are motivated by divergent economic approaches, influenced by disparate non-state actors, and implemented by separate institutions such as the World Trade Organization and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization. Margaret Young shows how these and other factors affect the interaction between regimes. Her empirical and doctrinal analysis moves beyond the discussion of conflicting norms that has dominated the fragmentation debate. Case-studies include the negotiation of new rules on fisheries subsidies, the restriction of trade in endangered marine species and the adjudication of fisheries import bans. She explores how regimes should interact, in fisheries governance and beyond, to offer insights into the practice and legitimacy of regime interaction in international law.

Book Dictionary of Dates  Relating to All Ages and Nations

Download or read book Dictionary of Dates Relating to All Ages and Nations written by Joseph Haydn and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From Environmental to Ecological Law

Download or read book From Environmental to Ecological Law written by Kirsten Anker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-30 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book increases the visibility, clarity and understanding of ecological law. Ecological law is emerging as a field of law founded on systems thinking and the need to integrate ecological limits, such as planetary boundaries, into law. Presenting new thinking in the field, this book focuses on problem areas of contemporary law including environmental law, property law, trusts, legal theory and First Nations law and explains how ecological law provides solutions. Written by ecological law experts, it does this by 1) providing an overview of shortcomings of environmental law and other areas of contemporary law, 2) presenting specific examples of these shortcomings, 3) explaining what ecological law is and how it provides solutions to the shortcomings of contemporary law, and 4) showing how society can overcome some key challenges in the transition to ecological law. Drawing on a diverse range of case study examples including Indigenous law, ecological restoration and mining, this volume will be of great interest to students, scholars and policymakers of environmental and ecological law and governance, political science, environmental ethics and ecological and degrowth economics.

Book Native American Art in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book Native American Art in the Twentieth Century written by W. Jackson Rushing III and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-27 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illuminating and provocative book is the first anthology devoted to Twentieth Century Native American and First Nation art. Native American Art brings together anthropologists, art historians, curators, critics and distinguished Native artists to discuss pottery, painitng, sculpture, printmaking, photography and performance art by some of the most celebrated Native American and Canadian First Nation artists of our time The contributors use new theoretical and critical approaches to address key issues for Native American art, including symbolism and spirituality, the role of patronage and musuem practices, the politics of art criticism and the aesthetic power of indigenous knowledge. The artist contributors, who represent several Native nations - including Cherokee, Lakota, Plains Cree, and those of the PLateau country - emphasise the importance of traditional stories, myhtologies and ceremonies in the production of comtemporary art. Within great poignancy, thye write about recent art in terms of home, homeland and aboriginal sovereignty Tracing the continued resistance of Native artists to dominant orthodoxies of the art market and art history, Native American Art in the Twentieth Century argues forcefully for Native art's place in modern art history.

Book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board

Download or read book Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board written by United States. National Labor Relations Board and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 1420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: