How do we judge what is good in art? Or more to the controversial point, can we judge art? Acclaimed museum director Maxwell Anderson, newly named Eugene McDermott Director of the Dallas Museum of Art, enters the fray with The Quality Instinct. Part personal memoir, part thinking person's guide to the museum, The Quality Instinct is filled with wit and humor, anecdotes, and insights from the author's 30 years in the highly competitive, often contentious art world. Anderson takes us on a grand t...
Places of Pain and Shame (Key Issues in Cultural Heritage)
by Professor William Logan
Places of Pain and Shame is a cross-cultural study of sites that represent painful and/or shameful episodes in a national or local community's history, and the ways that government agencies, heritage professionals and the communities themselves seek to remember, commemorate and conserve these cases - or, conversely, choose to forget them. Such episodes and locations include: massacre and genocide sites, places related to prisoners of war, civil and political prisons, and places of 'benevolent'...
New Museum Theory and Practice
A botanical garden is essentially a living museum. Yet until now no resource existed to give those working in botanical gardens specific guidance for acquiring and maintaining their natural collections. Timothy C. Hohn does the field an enormous service with Curatorial Practices for Botanical Gardens, which introduces public garden professionals and students to standard and specialized museological concepts and practices useful for the management of botanical collections. Hohn offers instruction...
Drawing on a trove of confidential museum records and frank interviews, Felch and Frammolino give a fly-on-the-wall account of the inner workings of a world-class museum and tell the story of the Getty's dealings in the illegal antiquities trade. Fast-paced and compelling, "Chasing Aphrodite" exposes the layer of dirt beneath the polished facade of the museum business.
Interpreting Slavery at Museums and Historic Sites (Interpreting History, #5)
Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums (American Association for State and Local History)
by Sarah Sutton
Executive Transitions (Templates for Trustees, #2)
by Daryl Fischer and Laura B Roberts
Museum Education for Today's Audiences (American Alliance of Museums)
Nationale Martyrer: Albert Leo Schlageter Und Julius Fucik (Sammlung Schoeningh Zur Geschichte Und Gegenwart)
by Stefan Zwicker