A modern-day explorers guide to the Old WestFrom the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture.
Conservation and Exhibitions: Packing, Transport, Storage, and Environmental Considerations presents the theory and practice in exhibitions conservation.
In the aftermath of the 2016 US elections, Brexit, and a global upsurge of nationalist populism, it is evident that the delirium and the crisis of neoliberal capitalism is now the delirium and crisis of liberal democracy and its culture.
Travel memoirs "e;as luminous as the Mediterranean air"e; from the acclaimed author of the Alexandria Quartet, who is featured in The Durrells in Corfu (Time).
Anders reisen und dabei das Besondere entdecken: Mit den aktuellen Tipps aus den Michael-Müller-Reiseführern gestalten Sie Ihre Reise individuell, nachhaltig und sicher.
The Material Cultures in Public Engagement volume seeks to document and explore the significant change in the relationship of Museums with collections of the Ancient World and their audiences.
This is the first monograph fully dedicated to critically investigating the political, economic, artistic, urban, and societal relationships of Manifesta European Biennial of Contemporary Art, a European nomadic biennial initiated in the post-Cold War era.
Discover hundreds of themost interesting and memorable art experiences from around the world in this stunningly immersive and beautifully illustrated title!
Rising from a forest mist or soaring overhead in parks and museums, magnificent cedar totem poles have captured the attention and imagination of visitors to Washington State, British Columbia, and Alaska.
To this day The White Hart and The Red Lion are two of the most popular names for a public house in England both talismans that served as the insignia for Richard II and the banished Henry Bolingbroke, Duke of Lancaster, who usurped the throne in 1399.
This rich, beautiful book takes readers from the mountains of Kashmir to a repurposed castle in the west of Ireland, as it tours the most magnificent sacred gardens in the world.
From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missouri River to the battlefields of the nineteenth-century Indian Wars, there are places all over the American West where visitors can relive the great Western migration that helped shape our history and culture.
Anders reisen und dabei das Besondere entdeckenMit den aktuellen Tipps aus den Michael-Müller-Reiseführern gestalten Sie Ihre Reise individuell, nachhaltig und sicher.
Now in its fourth edition, Touring the Western North Carolina Backroads has long been the go-to guide for folks seeking the unspoiled landscape and little-known cultural attractions of western North Carolina.
Golden Mummies of Egypt presents new insights and a rich perspective on beliefs about the afterlife during an era when Egypt was part of the Greek and Roman worlds (c.
This book considers how art market stakeholders, including art dealers, collectors and agents, have shaped museum collections and affected exhibition practices since the mid-nineteenth century.
From Venice to Vietnam, from the Welsh coast to Cairo, Don Meredith has traveled in the wake of twentieth-century writers, using their novels and poems as guides, as another wayfarer might turn to Fodor's or the Guide Bleu.
From prehistory to the present day, take a grand tour of world events at eye-level perspective with accounts that combine knowledgeable commentary with practical detail.
This book recovers the significant contribution made by women to museums, not just in obvious roles such as workers, but also as donors, visitors, volunteers and patrons.
The Historian's Toolbox introduces students to the theory, craft, and methods of history and equips them with a series of tools to research and understand the past.
The Organic Chemistry of Museum Objects provides an account of the composition, chemistry, and analysis of the organic materials which enter into the structures of objects in museum collections.
Winner of the American Book AwardSan Francisco Chinatown is the first book of its kindan "e;insider's guide"e; to one of America's most celebrated ethnic enclaves by an author born and raised there.
Samurai Castles features hundreds of stunning color photographs and little-known details about the most important and well-preserved Samurai castles in Japan, including their history, design and military features.
Materials for Conservation: Organic Consolidants, Adhesives and Coatings provides an overview of one aspect of materials conservation treatment, particularly the properties of organic consolidants, adhesives, and coatings.
Anders reisen und dabei das Besondere entdecken: Mit den aktuellen Tipps aus den Michael-Müller-Reiseführern gestalten Sie Ihre Reise individuell, nachhaltig und sicher.
Ob Basel, Rostock, Linz oder Ulm: In vielen liebenswerten Städten in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz kann man noch ungestört auf Entdeckungstour gehen.
This is the first monograph fully dedicated to critically investigating the political, economic, artistic, urban, and societal relationships of Manifesta European Biennial of Contemporary Art, a European nomadic biennial initiated in the post-Cold War era.
Romanticized notions of how one becomes an artist have long been questioned, so why do we still fetishize them in popular culture, turning a blind eye to the politics of exclusionism that characterize the art world and conforming our creative potential to well-trodden stereotypes?
Fully revised and updated edition of the classic, stunningly illustrated guide to the cream of Britain's historic country houses cared for by the National Trust, encompassing both interior and exterior design.
