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A Living Exhibition

Author : William S. Walker
Publisher : Public History in Historical P
ISBN 13 : 9781625340269
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Living Exhibition written by William S. Walker and published by Public History in Historical P. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," the Smithsonian Institution has been an important feature of the American cultural landscape. In A Living Exhibition, William S. Walker examines the tangled history of cultural exhibition at the Smithsonian from its early years to the chartering of the National Museum of the American Indian in 1989. He tracks the transformation of the institution from its original ideal as a "universal museum" intended to present the totality of human experience to the variegated museum and research complex of today. Walker pays particular attention to the half century following World War II, when the Smithsonian significantly expanded. Focusing on its exhibitions of cultural history, cultural anthropology, and folk life, he places the Smithsonian within the larger context of Cold War America and the social movements of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Organized chronologically, the book uses the lens of the Smithsonian's changing exhibitions to show how institutional decisions become intertwined with broader public debates about pluralism, multiculturalism, and decolonization. Yet if a trend toward more culturally specific museums and exhibitions characterized the postwar history of the institution, its leaders and curators did not abandon the vision of the universal museum. Instead, Walker shows, even as the Smithsonian evolved into an extensive complex of museums, galleries, and research centers, it continued to negotiate the imperatives of cultural convergence as well as divergence, embodying both a desire to put everything together and a need to take it all apart.

A Living Exhibition

Author : William S. Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781625340252
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book A Living Exhibition written by William S. Walker and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its founding in 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," the Smithsonian Institution has been an important feature of the American cultural landscape. In A Living Exhibition, William S. Walker examines the tangled history of cultural exhibition at the Smithsonian from its early years to the chartering of the National Museum of the American Indian in 1989. He tracks the transformation of the institution from its original ideal as a "universal museum" intended to present the totality of human experience to the variegated museum and research complex of today. Walker pays particular attention to the half century following World War II, when the Smithsonian significantly expanded. Focusing on its exhibitions of cultural history, cultural anthropology, and folk life, he places the Smithsonian within the larger context of Cold War America and the social movements of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. Organized chronologically, the book uses the lens of the Smithsonian's changing exhibitions to show how institutional decisions become intertwined with broader public debates about pluralism, multiculturalism, and decolonization. Yet if a trend toward more culturally specific museums and exhibitions characterized the postwar history of the institution, its leaders and curators did not abandon the vision of the universal museum. Instead, Walker shows, even as the Smithsonian evolved into an extensive complex of museums, galleries, and research centers, it continued to negotiate the imperatives of cultural convergence as well as divergence, embodying both a desire to put everything together and a need to take it all apart.

Herman Miller

Author : Amy Auscherman
Publisher : Phaidon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781838666910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book Herman Miller written by Amy Auscherman and published by Phaidon Press. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed chronicle of the rich history of this innovative furniture company, from its founding in the early twentieth century to today

Living Spirits with Fixed Abodes

Author : Barry Craig
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 9781863332583
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Living Spirits with Fixed Abodes written by Barry Craig and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives the reader a thorough account of each of the 209 objects on display at the Masterpieces exhibition at the PNG National Museum and Art Gallery. The Introduction by the Editor, a former Curator of the National Museum, aims to give the non-Papua New Guinean reader a general idea of the significance of these objects and how they are to be understood. Two chapters by Dr Mark Busse, also a former Curator, provide a brief history of the Museum and outline its functions.

Design for a Living World

Author : Andy Grundberg
Publisher : Cooper Hewitt
ISBN 13 : 9780910503884
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Design for a Living World written by Andy Grundberg and published by Cooper Hewitt. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten prominent designers create objects using only sustainably grown and harvested materials Design for a Living World was developed by The Nature Conservancy, one of the world's leading conservation organizations, in order to raise global awareness about the impact and promise of sustainable sourcing. Ten prominent designers, including Kate Spade, Issac Mizrahi, Yves Béhar, Hella Jongerius and Ted Muehling were invited to create objects using only sustainably grown and harvested materials from some of the world's most beautiful and ecologically precarious places. Each of these landscapes supports its own distinct ecosystem and provides crucial livelihoods to local communities; each one is threatened by the effects of climate change and global economics--deforestation, overdevelopment and other destructive forces. Design for a Living World illuminates the complexity and vitality of raw materials at their source, including the people and cultures that actually produce them. The above designers were selected for their willingness to experiment and for their record of active engagement with issues of sustainability and social justice. In addition to presenting the designers' sketches, models and finished objects, Design for a Living World features original photographs by award-winning photojournalist Ami Vitale, who traveled around the world to document the many landscapes explored in this volume.

The Living Exhibition

Author : Thomas Oberender
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783959055635
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book The Living Exhibition written by Thomas Oberender and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Running Out of Time

Author : Margaret Peterson Haddix
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0689800843
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Running Out of Time written by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1995-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children.

Living as Form

Author : Nato Thompson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262017342
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Living as Form written by Nato Thompson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Living as Form' grew out of a major exhibition at Creative Time in New York City. Like the exhibition, the book is a landmark survey of more than 100 projects selected by a 30-person curatorial advisory team; each project is documented by a selection of colour images.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Author : Wanda M. Corn
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 3791356011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (913 download)

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Download or read book Georgia O'Keeffe written by Wanda M. Corn and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2018 Dedalus Foundation Exhibition Catalogue Award This book explores how Georgia O’Keeffe lived her life steeped in modernism, bringing the same style she developed in her art to her dress, her homes, and her lifestyle. Richly illustrated with images of her art and views of the two homes she designed and furnished in New Mexico, the book also includes never before published photographs of O’Keeffe’s clothes. The author has attributed some of the most exquisite of these garments to O’Keeffe, a skilled seamstress who understood fabric and design, and who has become an icon in today’s fashion world as much for her personal style as for her art. As one of her friends stated, O’Keeffe "never allowed her life to be one thing and her painting another." This fresh and carefully researched study brings O’Keeffe’s style to life, illuminating how this beloved American artist purposefully proclaimed her modernity in the way she dressed and posed for photographers, from Alfred Stieglitz to Bruce Weber. This beautiful book accompanies the first museum exhibition to bring together photographs, clothes, and art to explore O’Keeffe’s unified modernist aesthetic. This book accompanies the show at the Peabody-Essex Museum, Georgia O’Keeffe: Art, Image, Style.

An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture

Author : Kynaston McShine
Publisher : New York : Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture written by Kynaston McShine and published by New York : Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 1984 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

An Attempt to Exhibit the True Theory of Christianity as a Consistent and Practical System

Author : William S. Grayson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book An Attempt to Exhibit the True Theory of Christianity as a Consistent and Practical System written by William S. Grayson and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum

Author : Kate Guy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000996743
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum written by Kate Guy and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum: Makers, Process, and Practice offers a new model for understanding exhibition design in museums as a human and material process. It presents diverse case studies from around the world, from the nineteenth century to the recent past. It moves beyond the power of the finished exhibition over both objects and visitors to highlight historic exhibition making as an ongoing task of adaptation, experimentation, and interaction that involves intellectual, creative, and technical choices. Attentive to hierarchies of ethnicity, race, class, gender, sexuality, and ableism that have informed exhibition design and its histories, the volume highlights the labour involved in making museum exhibitions. It presents design as filled with personal and professional demands on the body, senses, and emotions. Contributions from historians, anthropologists, and exhibition makers focus on histories of identity, collaboration, and hierarchy ‘behind the scenes’ of the museum. They argue for an emphasis on the everyday objects of museum design and the importance of a diverse range of actors within and beyond the museum, from carpenters and label writers to volunteers and local communities. Histories of Exhibition Design in the Museum offers scholars, students, and professionals working across the museum and design sectors insight into how past methods still influence museums today. Through a postcolonial and decolonial lens, it reveals the lineage of current processes and supports a more informed contemporary practice.

Official Catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1876. (Part 3-4)

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 336872522X
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (687 download)

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Download or read book Official Catalogue of the International Exhibition of 1876. (Part 3-4) written by Anonymous and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-03-13 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.

Wright on Exhibit

Author : Kathryn Smith
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691246416
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Wright on Exhibit written by Kathryn Smith and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of Frank Lloyd Wright's exhibitions of his own work—a practice central to his career More than one hundred exhibitions of Frank Lloyd Wright's work were mounted between 1894 and his death in 1959. Wright organized the majority of these exhibitions himself and viewed them as crucial to his self-presentation as his extensive writings. He used them to promote his designs, appeal to new viewers, and persuade his detractors. Wright on Exhibit presents the first history of this neglected aspect of the architect’s influential career. Drawing extensively from Wright’s unpublished correspondence, Kathryn Smith challenges the preconceived notion of Wright as a self-promoter who displayed his work in search of money, clients, and fame. She shows how he was an artist-architect projecting an avant-garde program, an innovator who expanded the palette of installation design as technology evolved, and a social activist driven to revolutionize society through design. While Wright’s earliest exhibitions were largely for other architects, by the 1930s he was creating public installations intended to inspire debate and change public perceptions about architecture. The nature of his exhibitions expanded with the times beyond models, drawings, and photographs to include more immersive tools such as slides, film, and even a full-scale structure built especially for his 1953 retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum. Placing Wright’s exhibitions side by side with his writings, Smith shows how integral these exhibitions were to his vision and sheds light on the broader discourse concerning architecture and modernism during the first half of the twentieth century. Wright on Exhibit features color renderings, photos, and plans, as well as a checklist of exhibitions and an illustrated catalog of extant and lost models made under Wright’s supervision.

House Held Up by Trees

Author : Ted Kooser
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763651079
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book House Held Up by Trees written by Ted Kooser and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Built on a treeless yard by a family who cleared away all the sprouting trees on the property, a house is eventually abandoned and left to deteriorate on a lot that is gradually overrun by wild trees, in a poignant tale of loss, change and nature's quiet triumph by the Pulitzer Prize-winning former U.S. Poet Laureate and author of Delights & Shadows.

Globalization and the Great Exhibition

Author : Paul Young
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 023059431X
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Globalization and the Great Exhibition written by Paul Young and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-01-28 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the Great Exhibition as a decisive moment in the formation of a capitalist world picture. In so doing it foregrounds a vision of peace and progress which took hold of British society, within the Crystal Palace and beyond. It emphasizes too that this Victorian understanding of global order legitimized imperial ambition.

Colonial Discourses, Collective Memories and the Exhibition of Native American Cultures and Histories in the Contemporary United States

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Author : C. Richard King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000526038
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Colonial Discourses, Collective Memories and the Exhibition of Native American Cultures and Histories in the Contemporary United States written by C. Richard King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-12 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this monograph is a collection of essays and recollections that covers such topics of the Battle of Little Bighorn, Native American museum exhibitions at the Smithsonian, Chief Illiniwek and the exhibition of Comanche.