Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest 9781839760525, 9781839760501, 9781839760518, 2021930005

Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums 9780773558298

A groundbreaking book recounting the as-yet-untold story of political action at museums in Canada from 1900 to the prese

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Engines of Culture: Philanthropy and Art Museums 1560001739, 9781560001737

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Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums 9780773557000, 9780773557017, 9780773558298

Museums are frequently sites of struggle and negotiation. They are key cultural institutions that occupy an oftentimes u

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Museums and Communities: Diversity, Dialogue and Collaboration in an Age of Migrations 1527516083, 9781527516083

This volume presents seventeen essays critically reflecting on the collaborative work of the contemporary ethnographic m

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Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture 9781350050730, 9781859735084

Short-listed for the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2003 Museums have been the subject of intense debate in recent years a

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Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful 9789048524808

This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology

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Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era [1 ed.] 9780812205657, 9780812243628

American art museums of the Gilded Age were established as civic institutions intended to provide civilizing influences

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Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era 9780812205657

Things American examines the relationship between American museums and cultural democracy in the first part of the twent

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Comic Art in Museums 1496828119, 9781496828118

Through essays and interviews, Kim A. Munson's anthology tells the story of the over-thirty-year history of the art

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Worthy Monuments: Art Museums and the Politics of Culture in Nineteenth-Century France [Reprint 2014 ed.] 9780674433342, 9780674433335

Attracting controversy as readily as they do crowds, art museums--the Grand Louvre project and the new Orsay in Paris, o

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