A Museum Of One S Own

Author : Anne Higonnet
Publisher : Periscope
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1934772925

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A Museum of One's Own by Anne Higonnet Pdf

By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. From the outset, these collectors planned to present their trophies to the public as museums in which they could dictate each and every detail of the arrangements. Drawing on a decade of research, Higonnet weaves letters, auction records and photographs into an engrossing account of the founding of both renowned and obscure collection museums. She also explores how these collectors stoked the tremendous values accorded paintings by Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velazquez, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Also references the Hertford family, Sir Richard and Lady Amelie Wallace, Le duc d'Amale and others.

Author : Leo Lionni
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780307974266

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A Color of His Own by Leo Lionni Pdf

Elephants are gray. Pigs are pink. Only the chameleon has no color of his own. He is purple like the heather, yellow like a lemon, even black and orange striped like a tiger! Then one day a chameleon has an idea to remain one color forever by staying on the greenest leaf he can find. But in the autumn, the leaf changes from green to yellow to red . . . and so does the chameleon. When another chameleon suggests they travel together, he learns that companionship is more important than having a color of his own. No matter where he goes with his new friend, they will always be alike. Now available as an eBook.

Author : Whalen Book Works
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781951511203

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The Tiniest Art Museum in the World by Whalen Book Works Pdf

This easy-to-fold mini art museum comes with more than 16 classic works of art from world-renowned museums, ready for you to arrange and rearrange! Escape into your own creative world! Open up The Tiniest Art Museum in the World to find easily foldable museum walls and more than a dozen masterpieces to place and rearrange in your very own tiny museum! Including classics such as: - The Great Wave by Katsushika Hokusai - Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat by Vincent Van Vogh - The Thinker by August Rodin - Esther before Ahasuerus by Artemisia Gentileschi - Melencolia I by Albrecht Dürer - Study for a Sunday on la Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat This handsome paper box features a complete miniature museum, ready for you to curate. Contents include: - Our comprehensive 48-page guidebook to the artworks included, The Tiniest Art Museum in the World Guidebook, plus step-by-step instructions for building your museum and how to keep your art safe and not wrinkled, bent, destroyed, etc.! - Foldable museum walls - 16+ pieces of classic art for your museum (both portrait and landscape) that attach to the walls so you can mix and match Gift this miniature make-your-own museum to your favorite art lover—or yourself!

Author : Zetta Elliott
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : African American girls
ISBN : 1537580965

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Milo's Museum by Zetta Elliott Pdf

Milo is excited about her class trip to the museum. The docent leads them on a tour and afterward Milo has time to look around on her own. But something doesn't feel right, and Milo gradually realizes that the people from her community are missing from the museum. When her aunt urges her to find a solution, Milo takes matters into her own hands and opens her own museum!

Author : T. M. Sharlach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781501505263

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An Ox of One's Own by T. M. Sharlach Pdf

Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life. An Ox of One’s Own will be of interest to Assyriologists, particularly those interested in Early Mesopotamia, and scholars working on women in religion. An Ox of One’s Own centers on the archive of a woman who died about 2050 B.C., one of King Shulgi’s many wives. Her birth name is unknown, but when she married, she became Shulgi-simti, “Suitable for Shulgi.” Attested for only about 15 years, she existed among a court filled with other wives, who probably outranked her. A religious foundation was run on her behalf whereby courtiers, male and female, donated livestock for sacrifices to an unusual mix of goddesses and gods. Previous scholarship has declared this a rare example of a queen conducting women’s religion, perhaps unusual because they say she came from abroad. The conclusions of this book are quite different. An Ox of One’s Own lays out the evidence that another woman was queen at this time in Nippur while Shulgi-simti lived in Ur and was a third-ranking concubine at best, with few economic resources. Shulgi-simti’s religious exercises concentrated on a quartet of north Babylonian goddesses.

Author : Wilhelmina Cole Holladay,Philip Kopper
Publisher : Abbeville Publishing Group
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-18
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015077138397

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A Museum of Their Own by Wilhelmina Cole Holladay,Philip Kopper Pdf

"Until quite recently, the work of great women artists was ignored, forgotten, or denied; they were largely left out of museums and histories of art. Along came Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, who boldly rectified this oversight in 1981, by founding a museum that was initially housed in her residence, where docent-led tours of the collection were offered." "This thrilling account of the birth and early years of NMWA provides a lively, anecdotal, behind-the-scenes glimpse of the efforts of the countless dedicated individuals who have shared Mrs. Holladay's vision and, under her leadership, helped to expand the permanent collection, renovate the Museum, and fund a robust endowment. Today, NMWA boasts a sizable membership - among the ten largest museum memberships in the world - including twenty-nine active committees in states across the nation and in eight countries. Among the major exhibitions presented at the Museum have been retrospectives of important women artists - Lavinia Fontana, Berthe Morisot, Camille Claudel, Lilla Cabot Perry, and Carrie Mae Weems." "Illustrating this captivating memoir are nearly 200 pictures, most in full color, including artworks, archival photographs, and candid images of the landmark events that led to the Museum's impressive growth. An additional feature is a color portfolio of "Selected Gifts and Promised Gifts of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay to the Museum." The remarkable story of NMWA, told through the eyes of its founder, is a priceless legacy for women today and for future generations." "Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, the founder and chair of the board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nina Simon
Publisher : Museum 2.0
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780615346502

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The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon Pdf

Visitor participation is a hot topic in the contemporary world of museums, art galleries, science centers, libraries and cultural organizations. How can your institution do it and do it well? The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to working with community members and visitors to make cultural institutions more dynamic, relevant, essential places. Museum consultant and exhibit designer Nina Simon weaves together innovative design techniques and case studies to make a powerful case for participatory practice. "Nina Simon's new book is essential for museum directors interested in experimenting with audience participation on the one hand and cautious about upending the tradition museum model on the other. In concentrating on the practical, this book makes implementation possible in most museums. More importantly, in describing the philosophy and rationale behind participatory activity, it makes clear that action does not always require new technology or machinery. Museums need to change, are changing, and will change further in the future. This book is a helpful and thoughtful road map for speeding such transformation." -Elaine Heumann Gurian, international museum consultant and author of Civilizing the Museum "This book is an extraordinary resource. Nina has assembled the collective wisdom of the field, and has given it her own brilliant spin. She shows us all how to walk the talk. Her book will make you want to go right out and start experimenting with participatory projects." -Kathleen McLean, participatory museum designer and author of Planning for People in Museum Exhibitions "I predict that in the future this book will be a classic work of museology." --Elizabeth Merritt, founding director of the Center for the Future of Museums

Author : Rebekah Modrak,Jamie Vander Broek
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781953368126

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Radical Humility by Rebekah Modrak,Jamie Vander Broek Pdf

This innovative essay collection explores the personal and civic function of humility from a range of popular and scholarly perspectives. What does humility mean and why does it matter in an age of golden escalators and billion

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1844-07
Category : English literature
ISBN : NYPL:33433081646121

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The Court Magazine and Monthly Critic, and Lady's Magazine and Museum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1836-07
Category : English literature
ISBN : OXFORD:555032089

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The Lady's Magazine and Museum by Anonim Pdf

Author : Monique Scott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134135905

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Rethinking Evolution in the Museum by Monique Scott Pdf

Rethinking Evolution in the Museum explores the ways diverse natural history museum audiences imagine their evolutionary heritage. In particular, the book considers how the meanings constructed by audiences of museum exhibitions are a product of dynamic interplay between museum iconography and powerful images museum visitors bring with them to the museum. In doing so, the book illustrates how the preconceived images held by museum audiences about anthropology, Africa, and the museum itself strongly impact the human origins exhibition experience. Although museological theory has come increasingly to recognize that museum audiences ‘make meaning’ in exhibitions, or make their own complex interpretations of museum exhibitions, few scholars have explicitly asked how. Rethinking Evolution in the Museum, however, provides a rare window into visitor perceptions at four world-class museums—the Natural History Museum and Horniman Museum in London, the National Museums of Kenya in Nairobi and the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Through rigorous and novel mixed methods (quantitative and qualitative) covering nearly 500 museum visitors, this innovative study shows that audiences of human origins exhibitions interpret evolution exhibitions through a profoundly complex convergence of personal, political, intellectual, emotional and cultural interpretive strategies. This book also reveals that natural history museum visitors often respond to museum exhibitions similarly because they use common cultural tools picked up from globalized popular media circulating outside of the museum. One tool of particular interest is the notion that human evolution has proceeded linearly from a bestial African prehistory to a civilized European present. Despite critical growths in anthropological science and museum displays, the outdated Victorian progress motif lingers persistently in popular media and the popular imagination. Rethinking Evolution in the Museum sheds light on our relationship with natural history museums and will be crucial to those people interested in understanding the connection between the visitor, the museum and media culture outside of the museum context.

Author : Laura Anne Kalba
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271079783

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Color in the Age of Impressionism by Laura Anne Kalba Pdf

This study analyzes the impact of color-making technologies on the visual culture of nineteenth-century France, from the early commercialization of synthetic dyes to the Lumière brothers’ perfection of the autochrome color photography process. Focusing on Impressionist art, Laura Anne Kalba examines the importance of dyes produced in the second half of the nineteenth century to the vision of artists such as Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet. The proliferation of vibrant new colors in France during this time challenged popular understandings of realism, abstraction, and fantasy in the realms of fine art and popular culture. More than simply adding a touch of spectacle to everyday life, Kalba shows, these bright, varied colors came to define the development of a consumer culture increasingly based on the sensual appeal of color. Impressionism—emerging at a time when inexpensively produced color functioned as one of the principal means by and through which people understood modes of visual perception and signification—mirrored and mediated this change, shaping the ways in which people made sense of both modern life and modern art. Demonstrating the central importance of color history and technologies to the study of visuality, Color in the Age of Impressionism adds a dynamic new layer to our understanding of visual and material culture.

Author : C. Kurt Dewhurst,Patricia Hall,Charlie Seemann
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781442272934

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Folklife and Museums by C. Kurt Dewhurst,Patricia Hall,Charlie Seemann Pdf

This cutting-edge new book is the replacement for Folklife and Museums: Selected Readings which was published nearly thirty years ago in 1987. The editors of that volume, Patricia Hall and Charlie Seemann, are now joined by C. Kurt Dewhurst as a third editor, for this book which includes updates to the still-relevant and classic essays and articles from the earlier text and features new pioneering pieces by some of today’s most outstanding scholars and practitioners, to provide a more current overview of the field and addressing contemporary issues. Folklife and Museums: Twenty-First Century Perspectives is a brand new collection of cutting-edge essays that combine theoretical insights, practical applications, topical case studies (focusing on particular subject matter areas and specific cultural groups), accompanied by up-to-date “resources” and “suggested readings” sections. Each essay is preceded by an explanatory headnote contextualizing the essay and includes illustrative photographs.

Author : Carl D Nuttall
Publisher : Amazing Adventures Ltd
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Harry The Historian by Carl D Nuttall Pdf

This is the story about Harry; a “history loving” young boy who always knew his life was taking him just that bit further than school ever could! He pays a visit to a new museum with his Nan when something very unpleasant happens to them. After the event, Harry is gifted with an heirloom which he knows he will just love researching. The strangest thing Harry finds with his new gift is that there is nothing written down with regards its’ origin. After having spent hours trawling through encyclopaedias’ to try and find the information he is looking for he knows he will have to concede. Harry hates modern technology although thinks that there will be more information online and so sets off to a friends’ to continue the search. Harry’s trip to his friend’s house is certainly eventful and he gets much more than he bargained for! Join Harry in this time- travelling adventure which is sure to excite all science- fiction readers. Will Harry find out what the heirloom is? Might he be able to sell it and buy his Nan something really special, or will he attract the wrong attention by possessing it? Join Harry in this adventure to find out and please leave a good review if you enjoy the story.

Author : Hugh H Genoways,Mary Anne Andrei
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315423999

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Museum Origins by Hugh H Genoways,Mary Anne Andrei Pdf

With the development of institutions displaying natural science, history, and art in the late 19th century came the debates over the role of these museum in society. This anthology collects 50 of the most important writings on museum philosophy dating from this formative period, written by the many of the American and European founders of the field. Genoways and Andrei contextualize these pieces with a series of introductions showing how the museum field developed within the social environment of the era. For those interested in museum history and philosophy or cultural history, this is an essential resource.