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Curatopia: museums and the future of curatorship

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What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia, whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the cu…

Objects and materials: a Routledge companion

fromCulture, economy and the social

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Du site de l'éd.: There is broad acceptance across the Humanities and Social Sciences that our deliberations on the social need to take place through attention to practice, to object-mediated relations, to non-human agency and to the affective dimensions of human sociality. This…

Conservation treatment methodology

by Appelbaum, Barbara

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4e de couv.: Conservation Treatment Methodology presents a systematic approach to decision-making for conservation treatments. The methodology is applicable to all cultural property, independent of object type or material, and its use will enable conservators to be more confiden…

Museum objects: experiencing the properties of things

by Dudley, Sandra H.

fromLeicester readers in museum studies

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Du site de l'éd.: Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and …

Victorian Jamaica

by Barringer, Timothy John

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This book explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photog…

Victorian Jamaica

by Barringer, Timothy John

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This book explores the extraordinary surviving archive of visual representation and material objects to provide a comprehensive account of Jamaican society during Queen Victoria's reign over the British Empire, from 1837 to 1901. In their analyses of material ranging from photog…

Mail-order mysteries: real stuff from old comic book ads!

by Demarais, Kirk, Thorn, Jesse

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Rediscover your sense of wonder! Generations of comic book readers remember the tantalizing promises of vintage novelty advertisements that offered authentic laser-gun plans, x-ray specs, and even 7-foot-tall monsters (with glow-in-the-dark eyes!). But what would you really get …

Katalog der byzantinischen Münzen in der Münzsammlung der Universität

by Sommer, Andreas Urs

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Der Katalog der byzantinischen Münzen dokumentiert einen bedeutenden Teil der universitären Münzsammlung, die vom Archäologischen Institut der Georg-August Universität Göttingen betreut wird. Weitere Dokumentationen zur Münzsammlung sind in Arbeit.