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  • Defining Memory

    Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities

    Edición de Amy K. Levin, Joshua G. Adair ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    This updated edition of Defining Memory: Local Museums and the Construction of History in America’s Changing Communities offers readers multiple lenses for viewing and discussing local institutions. New chapters are included in a section titled “Museums Moving Forward,” which analyzes the ways in which local museums have come to adopt digital technologies in selecting items for exhibitions as well ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Global Mobilities

    Refugees, Exiles, and Immigrants in Museums and Archives

    Edición de Amy K. Levin ...
    Global Mobilities illustrates the significant engagement of museums and archives with populations that have experienced forced or willing migration: emigrants, exiles, refugees, asylum seekers, and others. The volume explores the role of public institutions in the politics of integration and cultural diversity, analyzing their efforts to further the inclusion of racial and ethnic minority ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Defining Memory

    Local Museums and the Construction of History in America's Changing Communities

    de Tami Christopher, James Connor, J Daniel d'Oney, Jessie Embry, Eric Gable, Lucian Gomoll, Richard Handler, Donna Langford, Amy Levin, Mauri L. Nelson, Stuart Patterson, Heather Perry, Jay Price, Michael Rhode, Eric Sandweiss, Elizabeth Vallance ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Defining Memory uses case studies of exhibits from around the country to examine how local museums, defined as museums whose collections are local in scope or whose audiences are primarily local, have both shaped and been shaped by evolving community values and sense of history. Levin and her contributors argue that these small institutions play a key role in defining America's self-identity and ... Leer más

    $34.99 USD

  • Gender, Sexuality and Museums

    A Routledge Reader

    Edición de Amy K. Levin ...
    Gender, Sexuality and Museums provides the only repository of key articles, new essays and case studies for the important area of gender and sexuality in museums. It is the first reader to focus on LGBT issues and museums, and the first reader in nearly 15 years to collect articles which focus on women and museums. At last, students of museum studies, women’s studies, LGBT studies and museum ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD

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  • Do Museums Still Need Objects?

    de Steven Conn ...
    Series series The Arts and Intellectual Life in Modern America
    "We live in a museum age," writes Steven Conn in Do Museums Still Need Objects? And indeed, at the turn of the twenty-first century, more people are visiting museums than ever before. There are now over 17,500 accredited museums in the United States, averaging approximately 865 million visits a year, more than two million visits a day. New museums have proliferated across the cultural landscape ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Makeshift Metropolis

    Ideas About Cities

    de Witold Rybczynski ...
    In this new work, prizewinning author, professor, and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski returns to the territory he knows best: writing about the way people live, just as he did in the acclaimed bestsellers Home and A Clearing in the Distance. In Makeshift Metropolis, Rybczynski has drawn upon a lifetime of observing cities to craft a concise and insightful book that is at once an ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Museum Legs

    de Amy Whitaker ...
    If you've ever considered going to an art museum and then thought, errr, I'll do something else ... If you've ever arrived at one and left a little glazed and confused ... If you've ever thought, I might read an eight-page article about art museums but not a whole book ... Then this is your story. Museum Legs -- taken from a term for art fatigue -- starts with a question: Why do people get bored ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Keeping Their Marbles

    How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There

    de Tiffany Jenkins ...
    The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD

  • Critical Issues in Public Art

    Content, Context, and Controversy

    de Harriet Senie ...
    In this groundbreaking anthology, twenty-two artists, architects, historians, critics, curators, and philosophers explore the role of public art in creating a national identity, contending that each work can only be understood by analyzing the context in which it is commissioned, built, and received. They emphasize the historical continuum between traditional works such as Mount Rushmore, the ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Edge City

    Life on the New Frontier

    de Joel Garreau ...
    First there was downtown. Then there were suburbs. Then there were malls. Then Americans launched the most sweeping change in 100 years in how they live, work, and play. The Edge City. ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Contested Waters

    A Social History of Swimming Pools in America

    de Jeff Wiltse ...
    From nineteenth-century public baths to today’s private backyard havens, swimming pools have long been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the United States, Jeff Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • History as Art, Art as History

    Contemporary Art and Social Studies Education

    de Dipti Desai, Jessica Hamlin, Rachel Mattson ...
    Series series Teaching/Learning Social Justice
    History as Art, Art as History pioneers methods for using contemporary works of art in the social studies and art classroom to enhance an understanding of visual culture and history. The fully-illustrated interdisciplinary teaching toolkit provides an invaluable pedagogical resource—complete with theoretical background and practical suggestions for teaching U.S. history topics through close ... Leer más

    $80.99 USD