Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics

Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view, it covers the key ideas, approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice, the book address important questions such as:   What are museums and galleries?    Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection?    How are museums and galleries funded?    What ethical concerns do practitioners need to consider?    How is the field of Museum and Gallery Studies developing?   This user-friendly text is an essential read for anyone wishing to work within museums and galleries, or seeking to understand academic debates in the field.

Mason, Rhiannon

Robinson, Alistair

Coffield, Emma

Reference

Routledge

Museum and Gallery Studies: The Basics is an accessible guide for the student approaching Museum and Gallery Studies for the first time. Taking a global view, it covers the key ideas, approaches and contentious issues in the field. Balancing theory and practice, the book address important questions such as: <ul>
<li>What are museums and galleries? </li> <li>Who decides which kinds of objects are worthy of collection? </li> <li>How are museums and galleries funded? </li> <li>What ethical concerns do practitioners need to consider? </li> <li>How is the field of Museum and Gallery Studies developing? </li> </ul>
This user-friendly text is an essential read for anyone wishing to work within museums and galleries, or seeking to understand academic debates in the field.

Over the course of the last twenty-five years David Harrison has created a body of work unique in contemporary British art, characterized by wit, a playful love of contradiction and quiet erudition. Working in two and three dimensions, the artist's paintings, sculptures, and collages transform the natural and man-made worlds into mythical settings in which alarming, magical, and incongruous narratives unfold. The book includes an overview of Harrison's work to date, an introduction by architectural historian Lucinda Lambton, an interview with the artist conducted by his renowned contemporary Peter Doig, and a study of his motifs and methods by curator Alistair Robinson.

David Harrison

Arts & Photography

Lambton, Lucinda

History & Criticism

Philip Wilson Publishers

Stereograms of the Dead

Red Squirrel Press

Vagrancy in the Victorian Age (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 134)

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Cambridge University Press

Vagrants were everywhere in Victorian culture. They wandered through novels and newspapers, photographs, poems and periodicals, oil paintings and illustrations. They appeared in a variety of forms in a variety of places: Gypsies and hawkers tramped the country, casual paupers and loafers lingered in the city, and vagabonds and beachcombers roved the colonial frontiers. Uncovering the rich Victorian taxonomy of nineteenth-century vagrancy for the first time, this interdisciplinary study examines how assumptions about class, gender, race and environment shaped a series of distinct vagrant types. At the same time it broaches new ground by demonstrating that rural and urban conceptions of vagrancy were repurposed in colonial contexts. Representational strategies circulated globally as well as locally, and were used to articulate shifting fantasies and anxieties about mobility, poverty and homelessness. These are traced through an extensive corpus of canonical, ephemeral and popular texts as well as a variety of visual forms.

Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, Series Number 134)

This first retrospective publication features an extensive look at the UK-based Canadian born artist's audiovisual installation works of the last fifteen years, and accompanies a major solo exhibition showing in both England and Canada. Richardson's works play with the idea of the hyper-real, a notion that due to our increased use of new media we can no longer distinguish from the real or the constructed. In particular she is fascinated by the way in which we connect with landscape and within her deeply layered practice she draws on devices from Hollywood science-fiction and horror, landscape painting and wildlife cinematography. The results are complex cinematic installations that present us with locations that appear real but have been subtly doctored with CGI, animation and sound to create an unsettling, otherworldly atmosphere. The lack of any physical human presence enhances the work; often making the scenarios feel like a post-apocalyptic future.

Kelly Richardson: The Last Frontier

Gordon, Kelly

Hughes, Holly E.

Southern Alberta Art Gallery

This book gathers images by and essays on British photographer John Kippin (born 1950), a central figure in UK photography since the 1970s, including a chapter on his series Romanitas, examining fascist architecture in Rome.

John Kippin: Based on a True Story

Kennedy, Madeleine

Photography & Video

Kerber

Commissioned by Audemars Pigeut, whose founders had settled in the Vallée de Joux in 1875, British photographer Dan Holdsworth (born 1974) photographed this idyllic Swiss valley over a period of seven years. This publication tinkers with the timeless setting and its relation to the history of timekeeping.

Dan Holdsworth: Vallée de Joux

Hatje Cantz

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