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  • Surrealism and the Exotic

    by Louise Tythacott ...
    Surrealism and the Exotic is the story of the obsessive relationship between surrealist and non-western culture. Describing the travels across Africa, Oceania, Mexico and the Caribbean made by wealthy aesthetes, it combines an insight into the mentality of early twentieth century collectors with an overview of the artistic heritage at stake in these adventures. Featuring more than 70 photographs ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Museums and Biographies

    Stories, Objects, Identities

    by Kate Hill, Helen Rees Leahy, Jeffrey Abt, Julie Sheldon, Laura Gray, Linda Sandino, Louise Tythacott, Lucie Carreau, Mariana Francozo, Mark Elliott0, Alexandra Stara1, Sophie Forgan2, Steffi De Jong3, Stuart Burch4, Suzanne MacLeod5, Wallis Miller6, Alison Booth7, Anne Whitelaw8, Belinda Nemec9, Chris Whitehead0, Donald Preziosi1, Elizabeth Crooke2, Felicity Bodenstein3 ...
    Museums and biographies both tell the stories of lives. This innovative collection examines for the first time biography - of individuals, objects and institutions - in relationship to the museum, casting new light on the many facets of museum history and theory, from the lives of prominent curators, to the context of museums of biography and autobiography. Separate sections cover individual ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West

    The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France

    Edited by Louise Tythacott ...
    Series series The Histories of Material Culture and Collecting, 1700-1950
    In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • Museums and Restitution

    New Practices, New Approaches

    Edited by Louise Tythacott, Kostas Arvanitis ...
    This book examines contemporary approaches to restitution from the perspective of museums. It focuses on the ways in which these institutions have been addressing the subject at a regional, national and international level. In particular, it explores contemporary practices and recent claims, and investigates to what extent the question of restitution as an issue of ownership is still at large, or ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

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  • Thinking About Exhibitions

    by Bruce W. Ferguson, Reesa Greenberg, Sandy Nairne ...
    An anthology of writings on exhibition practice from artists, critics, curators and art historians plus artist-curators. It addresses the contradictions posed by museum and gallery sited exhibitions, as well as investigating the challenge of staging art presentations, displays or performances, in settings outside of traditional museum or gallery locales. ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • Narrating Architecture

    A Retrospective Anthology

    Edited by James Madge, Andrew Peckham ...
    This anthology brings together the best and most interesting papers from the first ten years of The Journal of Architecture, published together for the first time in a single volume.Covering a wide range of topics of central importance to architecture today, the papers also address the related topics to which architecture and architectural studies are inextricably linked. The invited authors draw ... Read more

    $117.99 CAD

  • Tracing Modernity

    Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City

    by Mari Hvattum, Christian Hermansen ...
    First published in 2004. Walter Benjamin famously defined modernity as “the world dominated by its phantasmagorias”. The chapters in this book focus on one such phantasmagoria, namely that of ‘modernity’ itself. From the late seventeenth century until today, the ‘modern’ has served as a key category by which to understand an ever-changing present. Art and architecture have played a key role in ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • 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

  • But Is It Art?: An Introduction to Art Theory

    An Introduction to Art Theory

    by Cynthia Freeland ...
    In today's art world many strange, even shocking, things qualify as art. In this book, Cynthia Freeland explains why innovation and controversy are valued in the arts, weaving together philosophy and art theory with many fascinating examples. She discusses blood, beauty, culture, money, museums, sex, and politics, clarifying contemporary and historical accounts of the nature, function, and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Eyes of the Skin

    Architecture and the Senses

    by Juhani Pallasmaa ...
    THE EYES OF THE SKINFirst published in 1996, The Eyes of the Skin has become a classic of architectural theory. It asks the far-reaching question why, when there are five senses, has one single sense – sight – become so predominant in architectural culture and design? With the ascendancy of the digital and the all-pervasive use of the image electronically, it is a subject that has become all the ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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  • The Hieroglyphics of Space

    Reading and Experiencing the Modern Metropolis

    Edited by Neil Leach ...
    'Spatial images', wrote the German cultural theorist, Siegfried Kracauer, 'are the dreams of society. Wherever the hieroglyphics of any spatial image are deciphered, there the basis of social reality presents itself.' But how exactly are these spatial images to be deciphered?Hieroglyphics of Space addresses this question with a series of insightful essays on some of the great metropolitan centres ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Pioneers of Modern Design

    From William Morris to Walter Gropius

    by Nikolaus Pevsner ...
    One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful colour ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD