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Book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution. Board of Regents and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reports for 1884-1886/87 issued in 2 pts., pt. 2 being the Report of the National Museum.

Book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution

Download or read book Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States National Museum
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1958
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 952 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the Year Ending June 30

Download or read book Report of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents for the Year Ending June 30 written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U S  National Museum During the Year Ending June 30

Download or read book Report Upon the Condition and Progress of the U S National Museum During the Year Ending June 30 written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30

Download or read book Annual Report for the Year Ended June 30 written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Extinct Monsters to Deep Time

Download or read book Extinct Monsters to Deep Time written by Diana E. Marsh and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-02-18 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century. Describing participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time, the author provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public. From the introduction: In exhibit projects, the tension plays out between curatorial staff—academic, research, or scientific staff charged with content—and exhibitions, public engagement, or educational staff—which I broadly group together as “audience advocates” charged with translating content for a broader public. I have heard Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the NMNH, say many times that if you look at dinosaur halls at different museums across the country, you can see whether the curators or the exhibits staff has “won.” At the American Museum of Natural History in New York, it was the curators. The hall is stark white and organized by phylogeny—or the evolutionary relationships of species—with simple, albeit long, text panels. At the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Johnson will tell you, it was the “exhibits people.” The hall is story driven and chronologically organized, full of big graphic prints, bold fonts, immersive and interactive spaces, and touchscreens. At the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where Johnson had previously been vice president and chief curator, “we actually fought to a draw.” That, he says, is the best outcome; a win on either side skews the final product too extremely in one direction or the other. This creative tension, when based on mutual respect, is often what makes good exhibitions.

Book Report of the Secretary     and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents

Download or read book Report of the Secretary and Financial Report of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents written by Smithsonian Institution and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum

Download or read book Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum written by Katy Bunning and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-29 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum traces the evolution of pervasive racial ideas, and ‘post-race’ allusions, over more than a century of museum thinking and practice. Drawing on the illuminating history of the Smithsonian Institution, this book offers an account of how museums have addressed and renegotiated wider calls for inclusion, ‘self-definition’, and racial justice, in ways that continually re-centre and legitimise the White frame. Charting the emergence of ‘post-race’ ideas in museums, Bunning demonstrates how and why ‘culturally specific’ approaches have been met with suspicion and derision by powerful museum stakeholders against the backdrop of a changing United States of America, just as they have offered crucial vehicles for sectoral change. This study of the evolution of racial ideas in response to Black empowerment highlights deeply entrenched forms of White supremacy that remain operative within the international museum sector today, and serves to reinforce the urgent calls for the active disruption of racist ideas and the redesign of institutions. Negotiating Race and Rights in the Museum will appeal to those working in the international fields of museum and heritage studies, cultural studies, and American studies, and all who are interested in the production of racial ideas and White supremacy in the museum.

Book National Union Catalog

Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.

Book Fashion  History  Museums

    Book Details:
  • Author : Julia Petrov
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2019-02-07
  • ISBN : 1350049018
  • Pages : 338 pages

Download or read book Fashion History Museums written by Julia Petrov and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is available as open access through the Knowledge Unlatched programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. "A remarkable resource for the field of fashion studies suitable for both newcomers ... {and] seasoned practitioners." - Fashion Historia "A precious source in the study of the subject ... inspiring." - The Journal of Dress History The last decade has seen the growing popularity and visibility of fashion as a cultural product, including its growing presence in museum exhibitions. This book explores the history of fashion displays, highlighting the continuity of past and present curatorial practices. Comparing and contrasting exhibitions from different museums and decades-from the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900 to the Alexander McQueen Savage Beauty show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2011, and beyond-it makes connections between museum fashion and the wider fashion industry. By critically analyzing trends in fashion exhibition practice over the 20th and early 21st centuries, Julia Petrov defines and describes the varied representations of historical fashion within British and North American museum exhibitions. Rooted in extensive archival research on exhibitions by global leaders in the field-from the Victoria and Albert and the Bath Fashion Museum to the Brooklyn and the Royal Ontario Museums-the work reveals how fashion exhibitions have been shaped by the values and anxieties associated with fashion more generally. Supplemented by parallel critical approaches, including museological theory, historiography, body theory, material culture, and visual studies, Fashion, History, Museums demonstrates that in an increasingly corporate and mass-mediated world, fashion exhibitions must be analysed in a comparative and global context. Richly illustrated with 70 images, this book is essential reading for students and scholars of fashion history and museology, as well as curators, conservators, and exhibition designers.

Book Publications of the United States National Museum  1947 1970

Download or read book Publications of the United States National Museum 1947 1970 written by United States National Museum and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Politics of Vietnamese Craft

Download or read book The Politics of Vietnamese Craft written by Jennifer Way and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jennifer Way's study The Politics of Vietnamese Craft uncovers a little-known chapter in the history of American cultural diplomacy, in which Vietnamese craft production was encouraged and shaped by the US State Department as an object for consumption by middle class America. Way explores how American business and commerce, department stores, the art world and national museums variously guided the marketing and meanings of Vietnamese craft in order to advance American diplomatic and domestic interests. Conversely, American uses of Vietnamese craft provide an example of how the United States aimed to absorb post-colonial South Vietnam into the 'Free World', in a Cold War context of American anxiety about communism spreading throughout Southeast Asia. Way focuses in particular on the part played by the renowned American designer Russel Wright, contracted by the US International Cooperation Administration's aid programs for South Vietnam to survey the craft industry in South Vietnam and manage its production, distribution and consumption abroad and at home. Way shows how Wright and his staff brought American ideas about Vietnamese history and culture to bear in managing the making of Vietnamese craft.

Book Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design  Harvard University

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design Harvard University written by Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: