Browsing by Subject "Art"
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    Cultural treasures of the world
    (DK, 2024-07-11) Diana Loxley, Kirsty Seymour-Ure and Marek Walisiewicsz.
    The first objects deliberately crafted by our distance ancestors around three milion years ago were stone tools - essentially pebbles given a sharp edge by striking them against other rocks. They proved so perfectly fit for their purpose that they remained in use for a million years. Over time, human ingenuity provided for other essentials, giving us the first weapons around 300,00 years ago, clothing 70,000 years ago, ceramic pots 20,000 years ago, and implements made of bronze 5,000 years ago and of iron 3,200 years ago. The same human impulse to improve everyday life has driven the technologies that shape our world today.
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    Engaging Communities Through Civic Engagement in Art Museum Education
    ( 2024-02-16) Bryna Bobick
    As art museum educators become more involved in curatorial decisions and creating opportunities for community voices to be represented in the galleries of the museum, museum education is shifting from responding to works of art to developing authentic opportunities for engagement with their communities. Current research focuses on museum education experiences and the wide-reaching benefits of including these experiences into art education courses. As more universities add art museum education to their curricula, there is a need for a text to support the topic and offer examples of real-world museum education experiences. Engaging Communities Through Civic Engagement in Art Museum Education deepens knowledge on museum and art education and civic engagement and bridges the gap from theory to practice. The chapters focus on various sectors of this research, including diversity and inclusion in museum experiences, engaging communities through new techniques, and museum and university partnerships. As such, it includes coverage on timely topics that include programs and audience engagement with the LGBTQ+, refugee, disability, and senior communities; socially responsive museum pedagogy; and the use of student workers. This book is ideal for museum educators, museum directors, curators, professionals, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in updated knowledge and research in art education, curriculum development, and civic engagement.
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    London Shopfronts
    (Prestel, 2024-07-12) Rosie Hewitson ; Joel Holland (Illustration)
    Tje first time i visit London, from my home in New York City, was in 2006; I was there to prep for exhibition of my drawings in Clerlenwell. I stayed ad the posh ZetterHotel for afew days and walked for miles (and kilometers) by myself, and with my friends Dan and Helen, checking out the city. I remember going to the Fryer's Delight, Ineternational Magic, the Columbia Road Flower Market, The old Curiosity Shop, walking through Holland Park, and more. I loved it all: the food, the shoes, the energy of the history, and the people from all around the world.
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    Private Collecting, Exhibitions, and the Shaping of Art History in London
    (Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018) Stacey J. Pierson.
    The Burlington Fine Arts Club was founded in London in 1866 as a gentlemen's club with a singular remit - to exhibit members' art collections. Exhibitions were proposed, organized and furnished by a group of prominent members of British society who included aristocrats, artists, bankers, politicians, and museum curators. Exhibitions at their grand house in Mayfair brought many private collections and collectors to light, using members' social connections to draw upon the finest and most diverse objects available. Through their unique mode of presentation, which brought museum-style display and interpretation to a grand domestic-style gallery space, they also brought two forms of curatorial and art-historical practice together in one unusual setting, enabling an unrestricted form of connoisseurship, where new categories of art were defined and old ones expanded. The history of this remarkable group of people has yet to be told and is explored here for the first time. Through a framework of exhibition themes ranging from Florentine painting to Ancient Egyptian art, a study of lenders, objects, and their interpretation paints a picture of private collecting activities, connoisseurship and art world practice that is surprisingly diverse and interconnected.