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Book Synopsis The British Museum Is Falling Down by : David Lodge
Download or read book The British Museum Is Falling Down written by David Lodge and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-07-31 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum is Falling Down is a brilliant comic satire of academia, religion and human entanglements. First published in 1965, it tells the story of hapless, scooter-riding young research student Adam Appleby, who is trying to write his thesis but is constantly distracted - not least by the fact that, as Catholics in the 1960s, he and his wife must rely on 'Vatican roulette' to avoid a fourth child.
Book Synopsis The British Museum by : David Mackenzie Wilson
Download or read book The British Museum written by David Mackenzie Wilson and published by Peoples of the Past. This book was released on 2002 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum is the oldest publicly funded museum in the world. This volume tells the story of the collections, the buildings that house them, and the people who have administered and curated them since its foundation in 1753.
Book Synopsis The Adventure of the British Museum, Volume 2 by : Charles Phillips
Download or read book The Adventure of the British Museum, Volume 2 written by Charles Phillips and published by Ammonite Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second title in a series of Sherlock Holmes Escape Books: a unique, new form of puzzle books, in which the reader must solve the puzzles to escape the pages. Inspired by the urban craze for escape rooms, where players tackle challenges while trapped in a locked room, this is an escape room in the form of a locked book: filled with codes, ciphers, riddles and red herrings, plus an ingenious Hieroglyphic Code Wheel set into the cover. Taking on the role of Sherlock Holmes, in this new adventure readers find themselves trapped with Watson in the Enlightenment Gallery of the British Museum after a curator collapses in the Egyptian Collection. With King George V due to arrive at the nearby tube station, and rumors of an anarchist plot, Holmes and Watson must find their way through the museum, and fathom the involvement of both Mycroft and Colonel Sebastian Moran, if they are to win their freedom and save the day.
Book Synopsis British Museum: This Or That? by : Pippa Goodhart
Download or read book British Museum: This Or That? written by Pippa Goodhart and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captivating picture book filled with hundreds of amazing artefacts - what will you choose at the British Museum?
Book Synopsis Masterpieces of the British Museum by : British Museum
Download or read book Masterpieces of the British Museum written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new and updated edition includes many recent acquisitions and new discoveries, such as Picasso's stunning Vollard Suite and the intriguing Vale of York Viking hoard, and showcases a selection of more than 250 of the most beautiful and important objects drawn from across the Museum. Each object is presented with its own fascinating story and is strikingly illustrated in full colour. From the Warren Cup to Durers Rhinoceros, the Lewis Chessmen to the Aztec turquoise serpent and the Gayer-Anderson Cat, the iconic objects of the British Museum are here presented in an exciting and accessible new way, highlighting the superb craftsmanship and ingenuity of those who created each of these splendid pieces.
Download or read book The Brutish Museums written by Dan Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Book Synopsis A Little Gay History by : R. B. Parkinson
Download or read book A Little Gay History written by R. B. Parkinson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: The British Museum Press, 2013.
Download or read book Mummy! written by Lerryn Korda and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Dig in and discover ancient Egypt! Full of artefacts to spot and name, this friendly story uncovers all kinds of mummies- perfect ancient fun for little ones."--Page [4] of cover.
Book Synopsis British Museum: Colours by : British Museum
Download or read book British Museum: Colours written by British Museum and published by Early Learning at the Museum. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With amazing objects from the Museum collection, this first colours book is a treat for curious little ones.
Download or read book British Museum written by Tracey Turner and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Museum of Mankind written by Ben Burt and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum.
Download or read book Piranesi Drawings written by Sarah Vowles and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new exploration of Piranesi’s work as a draftsman, published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum. The Venetian-born artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778) is best known for his dramatic etchings of the architecture and antiquities of his adopted home city of Rome and for his extraordinary flights of spatial fancy, such as Le Carceri (“Prisons”). Published to coincide with an exhibition at the British Museum, this volume explores Piranesi’s celebrated skill as a draftsman. While many studies are concerned with Piranesi’s activities as a printmaker, this beautifully illustrated book examines new dimensions of his art by focusing on his drawings. Curator and author Sarah Vowles establishes a clear relationship between his drawings and prints, discusses the involvement of studio hands in his late works, and examines how his style as a draftsman evolved. Piranesi Drawings reveals the quality and lasting impact of the pen and chalk studies by a remarkably talented draftsman, as demonstrated by the superb collection at the British Museum.
Book Synopsis Edmund de Waal Library of Exile by : Edmund de Waal
Download or read book Edmund de Waal Library of Exile written by Edmund de Waal and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published to mark the display of library of exile at the British Museum, this beautifully produced new book reflects on the themes raised by de Waal's thought-provoking work of art. A preface by Booker Prize-nominated author Elif Shafak reflects on the importance of literature and its capacity to transcend language and borders. The introduction from Hartwig Fischer, Director of the British Museum, positions the artwork within the wider context of the Museum's collection, highlighting the dialogue between objects from across time and throughout history and the contemporary. Finally, de Waal concentrates on the work itself, its journey to the British Museum via Venice and Dresden, and its future role in the foundation of the New University Library in Mosul.
Book Synopsis Selection of Materials for the Storage Or Display of Museum Objects by : Dorothy Thickett
Download or read book Selection of Materials for the Storage Or Display of Museum Objects written by Dorothy Thickett and published by British Museum Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little point in conserving an object if the storage conditions to which it is to be returned contributed to its deterioration. This book presents the full range of tests, for materials used in constructing storage and display areas, which are used at the British museum and describes standard procedures for carrying them out. It is a valuable source of information for curators, conservators and designers and will enable those with access to relatively basic equipment to carry out their own tests.
Book Synopsis The British Museum Cookbook by : Michelle Berriedale-Johnson
Download or read book The British Museum Cookbook written by Michelle Berriedale-Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this cookbook, over 100 recipes are recreated from past cultures. Recipes include a full-scale Roman banquet and the exotic Kukuye Sabsi from Ancient Persia. From classical Greece come honey cheesecake and from Georgian England, Mrs Raffald's grapes preserved in brandy.
Book Synopsis The British Museum Book of Cats by : Juliet Clutton-Brock
Download or read book The British Museum Book of Cats written by Juliet Clutton-Brock and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes a friendly fireside companion, more often elusive and independent, the cat possesses an enigmatic appeal and unfathomable mystery, which have inspired writers poets, artists and craftsmen alike from the illuminations of the Lindisfarne Gospels to Rudyard Kipling.
Book Synopsis Hokusai: the Great Picture Book of Everything by : Timothy Clark
Download or read book Hokusai: the Great Picture Book of Everything written by Timothy Clark and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully produced book draws on the latest research, illustrating the complete set of drawings, published for the first time.
