The Ideal Museum

Author : Philippe Daverio
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847843114

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The Ideal Museum by Philippe Daverio Pdf

Philippe Daverio is one of Italy’s most important contemporary art historians, whose discerning comments about art are voraciously consumed by the public through his writing as editor of the famed magazine Art e Dossier and his platform on a leading Italian television program Passepartout. Now, in his first full-length work of narrative nonfiction, Daverio uses the conceit of creating his own perfect museum gallery and in the process reexamines major artistic masterpieces of Western art. Daverio turns his critical eye on the place of Western art in contemporary twenty-first-century culture and how we relate to art generally. According to Daverio, we relate to the history of art based on views that crystallized in the nineteenth century, and so we look to the past to understand the present, though the present is what truly matters to everyone. Daverio means to challenge this perspective, and guided by his curiosity and personal taste, he examines key masterworks to rediscover the true meaning and power they had before they became commoditized and clichéd. Some distinctive features of this illustrated eBook are: • 800+ full size and detailed images of paintings and drawings. • 280+ artworks with pop-up ability. • 160 thumbnails with links showing the setting of the work and location in its home museum, with informational text. • 92 links to museum websites that house the real works. The Italian-language edition of The Ideal Museum ebook has been awarded the QED Seal (Quality, Excellence, Design)—the premier award for ebooks and book apps—by the council of the Publishing Innovation Awards. This award recognizes the title’s portability and readability, providing the best reading experience possible.

Author : Gottfried Semper,Peter Noever
Publisher : Schlebrugge Editor
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art and science
ISBN : 3851600851

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The Ideal Museum by Gottfried Semper,Peter Noever Pdf

Edited by Peter Noever. Text by Peter Noever, Andrew Benjamin, Harry Francis Mallgrave, Isabella Nicka.

Author : Thomas Sheppard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1913
Category : Museum techniques
ISBN : OCLC:1184535983

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An "ideal" Museum and Its Guide by Thomas Sheppard Pdf

Author : Andrew McClellan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-01-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780520251267

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The Art Museum from Boullée to Bilbao by Andrew McClellan Pdf

Art museums, cases of beauty and calm in a fast-paced world, have emerged in recent decades as the most vibrant and popular of all cultural institutions. But as they have become more popular, their direction and values have been contested as never before. This engaging thematic history of the art museum from its inception in the eighteenth century to the present offers an essential framework for understanding contemporary debates as they have evolved in Europe and the United States.

Author : Ray Oldenburg
Publisher : Da Capo Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780786752416

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The Great Good Place by Ray Oldenburg Pdf

The landmark survey that celebrates all the places where people hang out--and is helping to spawn their revival A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice "Third places," or "great good places," are the many public places where people can gather, put aside the concerns of home and work (their first and second places), and hang out simply for the pleasures of good company and lively conversation. They are the heart of a community's social vitality and the grassroots of a democracy. Author Ray Oldenburg portrays, probes, and promotes th4ese great good places--coffee houses, cafes, bookstores, hair salons, bars, bistros, and many others both past and present--and offers a vision for their revitalization. Eloquent and visionary, this is a compelling argument for these settings of informal public life as essential for the health both of our communities and ourselves. And its message is being heard: Today, entrepreneurs from Seattle to Florida are heeding the call of The Great Good Place--opening coffee houses, bookstores, community centers, bars, and other establishments and proudly acknowledging their indebtedness to this book.

Author : Phaidon Press
Publisher : Phaidon Press
Page : 992 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 0714856525

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The Art Museum by Phaidon Press Pdf

The Art Museum is the finest art collection ever assembled between two covers. This revolutionary and unprecedented virtual art museum in a book, features 1,000 oversized pages of over 2,500 works of art. It is the most comprehensive and visually spectacular history of world art ever published. Ten years in the making, this unique book was created with a global team of 100 specialists in art history, who have collected together important works as they might be displayed in the ideal museum for the art lover. Unrestricted by the constraints of physical space, this volume contains an unprecedented wealth of masterworks spanning three millennia and culled from 650 museums, galleries and private collections from 60 countries to tell the history of world art. It is organized by innovative color-coded, galleries, rooms, corridors and special exhibitions, which display the paintings, sculptures, frescos, photographs, tapestries, friezes, installations, performances, videos, woodblock prints, folding screens, ceramics and manuscripts that tell the history of world art. This is the only museum to house Leonardo's Mona Lisa, a collection of Rembrandt's finest self portraits, Velázquez's Las Meninas and Picasso's Guernica, as well as ceramics from China, Hokusai's woodblock prints, gold artefacts from Peru, and works by Jackson Pollock in one place. With intelligent in-depth text throughout, explanatory lels for each artwork, a comprehensive glossary and detailed location maps, The Art Museum, is accessible for everyone from casual art fans to experts in the field.

Author : Bettina Messias Carbonell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781405173810

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Museum Studies by Bettina Messias Carbonell Pdf

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. Unique in its deep range of historical sources and by its inclusion of primary texts by museum makers Places current praxis and theory in its broader and deeper historical context with the collection of primary and secondary sources spanning more than 200 years Features the latest developments in museum scholarship concerning issues of inclusion and exclusion, repatriation, indigenous models of collection and display, museums in an age of globalization, visitor studies and interactive technologies Includes a new section on relationships, interactions, and responsibilities Offers an updated bibliography and list of resources devoted to museum studies that makes the volume an authoritative guide on the subject New entries by Victoria E. M. Cain, Neil G.W. Curtis, Catherine Ingraham, Gwyneira Isaac, Robert R. Janes, Sean Kingston, Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Sharon J. Macdonald, Saloni Mathur, Gerald McMaster, Sidney Moko Mead, Donald Preziosi, Karen A. Rader, Richard Sandell, Roger I. Simon, Crain Soudien, Paul Tapsell, Stephen E. Weil, Paul Williams, and Andrea Witcomb

Author : Lianne McTavish
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781442644434

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Defining the Modern Museum by Lianne McTavish Pdf

Partiendo del museo público más antiguo de Canadá, el New Brunswick Museum en Saint John, la autora realiza un estudio de los museos como instituciones culturales entre 1842 y 1950, enfatizando sus relaciones con las escuelas, las bibliotecas o las agencias gubernamentales.

Author : David Finn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985-09-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : MINN:31951D02688261P

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How to Visit a Museum by David Finn Pdf

Tells how to plan a museum visit, gives advice on appreciating paintings, sculptures, and museum buildings themselves, and discusses special shows, permanent collections, and different types of museums.

Author : Thomas Greenwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Art museums
ISBN : NYPL:33433081864658

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Museums and Art Galleries by Thomas Greenwood Pdf

Author : Nina Levent,Alvaro Pascual-Leone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780759123564

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The Multisensory Museum by Nina Levent,Alvaro Pascual-Leone Pdf

Recent research in the cognitive sciences gives us a new perspective on the cognitive and sensory landscape. In The Multisensory Museum: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Touch, Sound, Smell, Memory, and Space,museum expert Nina Levent and Alvaro Pascual-Leone, professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School bring together scholars and museum practitioners from around the world to highlight new trends and untapped opportunities for using such modalities as scent, sound, and touch in museums to offer more immersive experiences and diverse sensory engagement for visually- and otherwise-impaired patrons. Visitor studies describe how different personal and group identities color our cultural consumption and might serve as a compass on museum journeys. Psychologists and educators look at the creation of memories through different types of sensory engagement with objects, and how these memories in turn affect our next cultural experience. An anthropological perspective on the history of our multisensory engagement with ritual and art objects, especially in cultures that did not privilege sight over other senses, allows us a glimpse of what museums might become in the future. Education researchers discover museums as unique educational playgrounds that allow for a variety of learning styles, active and passive exploration, and participatory learning. Designers and architects suggest a framework for thinking about design solutions for a museum environment that invites an intuitive, multisensory and flexible exploration, as well as minimizes physical hurdles. While attention has been paid to accessibility for the physically-impaired since passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, making buildings accessible is only the first small step in elevating museums to be centers of learning and culture for all members of their communities. This landmark book will help all museums go much further.

Author : Brian O'Doherty
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520220404

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Inside the White Cube by Brian O'Doherty Pdf

These essays explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art, seeking to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based.

Author : Steven Miller
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781119237112

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The Anatomy of a Museum by Steven Miller Pdf

Written by a museum professional and based on a course taught for many years, The Anatomy of a Museum is an engaging and accessible volume that provides a unique insider’s guide to what museums are and how they operate. An insider’s view of the rarefied world of the museum that provides a refreshing and unique account of the reality of the workings of museum life The material has been successfully tested in a course that the author has taught for 14 years Miller has extensive experience at all levels of museum work, from painting walls for exhibitions to museum directorship Clearly and engagingly written, the book covers all the component parts and various disciplines of museum operations, and opinions and perspectives are drawn from a deep knowledge of the field Includes useful pedagogical material, including questions, discussion topics, and a range of anecdotes

Author : Andrea Meyer,Benedicte Savoy
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783110298826

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The Museum Is Open by Andrea Meyer,Benedicte Savoy Pdf

Museum science, museum analysis, museum history, and museum theory – all this expanding terminology underscores the growing scholarly interest in museums. A recurring assertion is that as an institution, the museum has largely functioned as a venue for the formation of specifically national identities. This volume, by contrast, highlights the museum as a product of transnational processes of exchange, focusing on the period from 1750 to 1940.

Author : Seiko Jose,Sabu Thomas,Pintu Pandit,Ritu Pandey,Vandana Gupta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781119791706

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Handbook of Museum Textiles, Volume 1 by Seiko Jose,Sabu Thomas,Pintu Pandit,Ritu Pandey,Vandana Gupta Pdf

Handbook of Museum Textiles Textiles have been known to us throughout human history and played a vital role in the lives and traditions of people. Clothing was made by using different materials and methods from natural fibers. There are different varieties of textiles, out of which certain traditional textiles, archaeological findings, or fragments are of cultural, historical, and sentimental value such as tapestries, embroideries, flags, shawls, etc. These kinds of textiles, due to their historical use and environmental factors, require special attention to guarantee their long-term stability. Textile conservation is a complex, challenging, and multi-faceted discipline and it is one of the most versatile branches of conservation. Volume 1 of the Handbook of Museum Textiles focuses on conservation and cultural research and addresses the proper display, storage, upkeep, handling, and conservation technology of textile artifacts to ensure their presence for coming generations. Spread over 19 chapters, the volume is a unique body of knowledge of theoretical and practical details of museum practices. Chapters on textile museums, the importance of cultural heritage, conservation, and documentation of textiles are covered in depth. Conservation case studies and examples are highlighted in many chapters. Management practices and guidelines to pursue a career in the museum textile field have been given due attention. The respective authors of the chapters are of international repute and are researchers, academicians, conservators, and curators in this field. Audience The book is a unique asset for textile researchers, fine art scholars, archaeologists, museum curators, designers, and those who are interested in the field of traditional or historic textile collections.