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“caitlin gordon walker”

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  • Exhibiting Nation

    Multicultural Nationalism (and Its Limits) in Canada’s Museums

    by Caitlin Gordon-Walker ...
    Canada’s brand of nationalism celebrates diversity – as long as it doesn’t challenge the unity, authority, or legitimacy of the state. In Exhibiting Nation, Caitlin Gordon-Walker explores this tension between unity and diversity in three nationally recognized museums, institutions that must make judgments about what counts as “too different” in order to celebrate who we are as a people and a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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  • How to See the British Museum in Four Visits

    by W. Blanchard Jerrold ...
    The money to found a British Museum was raised by a lottery in the middle of the last century. Sir Hans Sloane having offered his books and museum of natural history to Parliament, for less than half its value (20,000£.), it was purchased, together with the famous Harleian and Cottonian MSS., and deposited in Montague House, Bloomsbury, which had been bought of the Earl of Halifax, for the sum of ... Read more

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  • Avant-Garde Museology

    e-flux classics

    Edited by Arseny Zhilyaev ...
    The museum of contemporary art might be the most advanced recording device ever invented. It is a place for the storage of historical grievances and the memory of forgotten artistic experiments, social projects, or errant futures. But in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Russia, this recording device was undertaken by artists and thinkers as a site for experimentation.Arseny Zhilyaev’s ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Civilizing the Museum

    The Collected Writings of Elaine Heumann Gurian

    by Elaine Heumann Gurian ...
    Written over a thirty-five year career, the essays in Civilizing the Museum introduce students to the powerful, sometimes contested, and often unrealized notion that museums should welcome all because they house the collective memory of all.Drawing on her experience working in and with museums in the US and throughout the world, Author Elaine Heumann Gurian explores the possibilities for making ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Best of Both Worlds

    Museums, Libraries, and Archives in the Digital Age

    by G. Wayne Clough ...
    Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, asks “How can we prepare ourselves to reach the generation of digital natives who bring a huge appetite—and aptitude—for the digital world?” He explains how the Smithsonian is tackling this issue in Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age.Libraries and archives have already made many documents available through ... Read more

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  • From Museum Critique to the Critical Museum

    by Katarzyna Murawska-Muthesius, Piotr Piotrowski ...
    Since the late nineteenth century, museums have been cited as tools of imperialism and colonialism, as strongholds of patriarchalism, masculinism, homophobia and xenophobia, and accused both of elitism and commercialism. But, could the museum absorb and benefit from its critique, turning into a critical museum, into the site of resistance rather than ritual? This book looks at the ways in which ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Intangible Heritage

    Edited by Laurajane Smith, Laurajane Smith, Natsuko Akagawa, Natsuko Akagawa ...
    Series series Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
    This volume examines the implications and consequences of the idea of ‘intangible heritage’ to current international academic and policy debates about the meaning and nature of cultural heritage and the management processes developed to protect it. It provides an accessible account of the different ways in which intangible cultural heritage has been defined and managed in both national and ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • The Semiotics of Movement in Space

    by Robert James McMurtrie ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Multimodality
    The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, McMurtrie analyses and interprets movement and space relations to highlight new developments and applications of spatial semiotics as he proposes that people’s movement options have the potential to transform the meaning ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD

  • Copyrighting Creativity

    Creative Values, Cultural Heritage Institutions and Systems of Intellectual Property

    Edited by Helle Porsdam ...
    Series series Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities
    What is the relationship between creativity, cultural heritage institutions and copyright? Who owns culture and cultural heritage? The digital age has expanded the horizon of creative possibilities for artists and cultural institutions - what is the impact on legal regimes that were constructed for an analogue world? What are the tensions between the safeguarding of cultural heritage and the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • Curating Revolution

    Politics on Display in Mao's China

    by Denise Y. Ho ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China
    How did China's Communist revolution transform the nation's political culture? In this rich and vivid history of the Mao period (1949–1976), Denise Y. Ho examines the relationship between its exhibitions and its political movements. Case studies from Shanghai show how revolution was curated: museum workers collected cultural and revolutionary relics; neighborhoods, schools, and work units mounted ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Museums

    A Visual Anthropology

    by Mary Bouquet ...
    Series series Key Texts in the Anthropology of Visual and Material Culture
    Museums: A Visual Anthropology provides a clear and concise summary of the key ideas, debates and texts of the most important approaches to the study of museums from around the world. The book examines ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of the visual and material culture they comprise.Cross-disciplinary in ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Cultural Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula

    Debates, Discourses and Practices

    by Karen Exell, Trinidad Rico ...
    Heritage projects in the Arabian Peninsula are developing rapidly. Museums and heritage sites are symbols of shifting national identities, and a way of placing the Arabian Peninsula states on the international map. Global, i.e. Western, heritage standards and practices have been utilised for the rapid injection of heritage expertise in museum development and site management and for international ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD