A Museum Of Ones Own

Author : Anne Higonnet
Publisher : Periscope
ISBN 13 : 9781934772928
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Museum of One's Own written by Anne Higonnet and published by Periscope. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1850 cash-flush Americans like J.P. Morgan, Henry Clay Frick, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Henry E. Huntington, Arabella Huntington, and Mildred and Robert Bliss went on collecting campaigns that netted masterpiece after masterpiece, along with the furniture and fittings of dozens of aristocratic residences. From the outset, these collectors planned to present their trophies to the public as museums in which they could dictate each and every detail of the arrangements. Drawing on a decade of research, Higonnet weaves letters, auction records and photographs into an engrossing account of the founding of both renowned and obscure collection museums. She also explores how these collectors stoked the tremendous values accorded paintings by Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Velazquez, Gainsborough and Reynolds. Also references the Hertford family, Sir Richard and Lady Amelie Wallace, Le duc d'Amale and others.

Author : T. M. Sharlach
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501505262
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Ox of One's Own written by T. M. Sharlach and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-09-11 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shulgi-simti is an important example of a woman involved in sponsoring religious activities though having a family life. An Ox of One’s Own will be of interest to Assyriologists, particularly those interested in Early Mesopotamia, and scholars working on women in religion. An Ox of One’s Own centers on the archive of a woman who died about 2050 B.C., one of King Shulgi’s many wives. Her birth name is unknown, but when she married, she became Shulgi-simti, “Suitable for Shulgi.” Attested for only about 15 years, she existed among a court filled with other wives, who probably outranked her. A religious foundation was run on her behalf whereby courtiers, male and female, donated livestock for sacrifices to an unusual mix of goddesses and gods. Previous scholarship has declared this a rare example of a queen conducting women’s religion, perhaps unusual because they say she came from abroad. The conclusions of this book are quite different. An Ox of One’s Own lays out the evidence that another woman was queen at this time in Nippur while Shulgi-simti lived in Ur and was a third-ranking concubine at best, with few economic resources. Shulgi-simti’s religious exercises concentrated on a quartet of north Babylonian goddesses.

Author : Virginia Woolf
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192834843
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Room of One's Own written by Virginia Woolf and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines two books by Virginia Woolf which are among the greatest contributions to feminist literature this century. They consider the implications of the historical exclusion of women from education and from economic independence.

Author : Arnold Greenberg
Publisher : Passport Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brazil on Your Own written by Arnold Greenberg and published by Passport Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a guide to every aspect of Brazil - from its cities, monuments and celebrations to its jungles, rivers and waterfalls - for the traveler who wants to explore on his own.

Author : Anna Johnson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442279060
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Museum Educator's Manual written by Anna Johnson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Museum Educator's Manual addresses the role museum educators play in today's museums from an experience-based perspective. Seasoned museum educators author each chapter, emphasizing key programs along with case studies that provide successful examples, and demonstrate a practical foundation for the daily operations of a museum education department, no matter how small. The book covers: volunteer and docent management and training; exhibit development; program and event design and implementation; working with families, seniors, and teens; collaborating with schools and other institutions; and funding. This second edition interweaves technology into every aspect of the manual and includes two entirely new chapters, one on Museums - An Educational Resource for Schools and another on Active Learning in Museums. With invaluable checklists, schedules, organizational charts, program examples, and other how-to documents included throughout, The Museum Educator's Manual is a 'must have' book for any museum educator.

Author : Giuseppe Cocco
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498503993
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creative Capitalism, Multitudinous Creativity written by Giuseppe Cocco and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book aims to counter the normative functioning of creativity in contemporary capitalism with a plethora of alternatives to radical creative practices. In the first part, titled “Creative Capitalism”, five authors analyze the forms of contemporary capitalism: on the one hand, there are new ways of working which include flexibility, mobility, and especially precarity; on the other, there are new forms of recovery and accumulation. In the second part, titled “Multitudinous Creativities: Radicalities and Alterities”, the book reflects on more autonomous creative experiments in the world. The third part, titled "Creativity, New Technologies, and Networks", analyses the issues related to the work of creative capitalism and the possible resistance within the digital and collaborative platforms.

Author : Ellen Bayuk Rosenman
Publisher : Macmillan Reference USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Room of One's Own written by Ellen Bayuk Rosenman and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: . Along with preliminary chapters discussing the essay in the context of Woolf's own history and how it was received by critics, Rosenman devotes a fascinating chapter to the importance of the very new and few women's colleges in England at the time Woolf wrote A Room of One's Own, which derived from speeches she gave at the two women's colleges in Oxford a year before.

Author : M. Xanthoudaki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401000433
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries written by M. Xanthoudaki and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Researching Visual Arts Education in Museums and Galleries brings together case studies from Europe, Asia and North America, in a way that will lay a foundation for international co-operation in the future development and communication of practice-based research. The research in each of the cases directly stems from educational practice in very particular contexts, indicating at once the variety and detail of practitioners' concerns and their common interests.

Author : Leah M. Melber
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442276819
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Teaching the Museum written by Leah M. Melber and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education departments in museums of all kinds serve millions of students and adult learners every year using the objects and other resources of the museum. Teaching the Museum offers insights, anecdotes, and valuable advice on how to get started and how to succeed in this rapidly growing field. Twenty contributors with decades of museum experience point out the opportunities for new graduates and seasoned teachers alike who want to explore this exciting profession.

Author : Colin Divall
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0718501063
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Histories in Transport Museums written by Colin Divall and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-12-20 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first in 30 years to take transport museums seriously as vehicles for the making of public histories. Drawing upon many years' experience of visiting and working in transport museums around the world, the authors argue that the sector's historical roots are more complex than is usually thought. Written from a multidisciplinary perspective but firmly rooted in the practice of making public histories, this book brings the study of transport museums firmly into the mainstream of academic and professional debate.>