On Exhibit

On Exhibit
Title On Exhibit PDF eBook
Author Barbara J. Black
Publisher University of Virginia Press
Pages 268
Release 2000
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780813918976

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Why did the Victorians collect with such a vengeance and exhibit in museums? Focusing on this key nineteenth-century enterprise, Barbara J. Black illuminates British culture of the period by examining the cultural power that this collecting and exhibiting possessed. Through its museums, she argues, Victorian London constructed itself as a world city. Using the tools of cultural criticism, social history, and literary analysis, Black roots Victorian museum culture in key political events and cultural forces: British imperialism, exploration, and tourism; advances in science and changing attitudes about knowledge; the commitment to improved public taste through mass education; the growth of middle-class dominance and the resulting bourgeois fetishism and commodity culture; and the democratization of luxury engendered by the French and industrial revolutions. She covers a wide range of genres--from poetry to museum guidebooks to the triple-decker novel--and treats three London museums as case studies: Sir John Soane's house-museum, the Natural History Museum, and the exemplary South Kensington. While On Exhibit provides a fascinating analysis of Victorian society, it also reminds us how modern the Victorians were--how, in crucial ways, our culture derives from the Victorian era. Forging connections among museums, urbanism, and modernity, Black provokes us to examine cultural imperialism and the costs and advantages of cultural consensus.

Exhibit A

Exhibit A
Title Exhibit A PDF eBook
Author Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Publisher Phaidon Press
Pages 0
Release 2018-06-22
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9780714875170

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The first book to explore the world's most significant architectural exhibitions of the 20th century How do you exhibit a building, a locality, a city? Exhibit A reveals how architecture has pushed the boundaries of exhibition as a medium and how, in turn, exhibitions have shaped the discipline of architecture. Focusing on 80 landmark architecture exhibitions mounted in countries around the world between 1948 and 2000, and featuring 300 images, this groundbreaking overview is both a vital reference and a visually compelling study of the way we look at built work.

Century of the Child

Century of the Child
Title Century of the Child PDF eBook
Author Juliet Kinchin
Publisher The Museum of Modern Art
Pages 273
Release 2012
Genre Design
ISBN 0870708260

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The book examines individual and collective visions for the material world of children, from utopian dreams for the citizens of the future to the dark realities of political conflict and exploitation. Surveying more than 100 years of toys, clothing, playgrounds, schools, children's hospitals, nurseries, furniture, posters, animation and books, this richly illustrated catalogue illuminates how progressive design has enhanced the physical, intellectual, and emotional development of children and, conversely, how models of children's play have informed experimental aesthetics and imaginative design thinking.

Earth Now

Earth Now
Title Earth Now PDF eBook
Author Katherine Ware
Publisher
Pages 196
Release 2011
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Presents delicious and easy to prepare recipes and dishes from the northern region of Mexico.

The African-American Mosaic

The African-American Mosaic
Title The African-American Mosaic PDF eBook
Author Library of Congress
Publisher
Pages 318
Release 1993
Genre African Americans
ISBN

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"This guide lists the numerous examples of government documents, manuscripts, books, photographs, recordings and films in the collections of the Library of Congress which examine African-American life. Works by and about African-Americans on the topics of slavery, music, art, literature, the military, sports, civil rights and other pertinent subjects are discussed"--

Making Choices: 1929, 1939, 1958, 1955

Making Choices: 1929, 1939, 1958, 1955
Title Making Choices: 1929, 1939, 1958, 1955 PDF eBook
Author Museum of Modern Art, New York
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2000
Genre
ISBN 9780870700309

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Whitney Biennial 2022

Whitney Biennial 2022
Title Whitney Biennial 2022 PDF eBook
Author David Breslin
Publisher Whitney Museum of American Art
Pages 264
Release 2022-04-26
Genre
ISBN 9780300263893

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Presenting the latest iteration of this crucial exhibition, always a barometer of contemporary American art The 2022 Whitney Biennial is accompanied by this landmark volume. Each of the Biennial's participants is represented by a selected exhibition history, a bibliography, and imagery complemented by a personal statement or interview that foregrounds the artist's own voice. Essays by the curators and other contributors elucidate themes of the exhibition and discuss the participants. The 2022 Biennial's two curators, David Breslin and Adrienne Edwards, are known for their close collaboration with living artists. Coming after several years of seismic upheaval in and beyond the cultural, social, and political landscapes, this catalogue will offer a new take on the storied institution of the Biennial while continuing to serve--as previous editions have--as an invaluable resource on present-day trends in contemporary art in the United States.