Best Museum Studies & Museology
At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. (Coincidentally or not, this book appears only briefly after Ilaria Dagnini Brey's The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II , Reviews, June 1.). Our task, I believe, was truly important - we were restoring to Europe evidence of its own civilization, which the War seemed virtually to have destroyed - and I was lucky to have had a chance to participate. -- Anne Olivier Bell "Highly Readable ... a remarkable history" * Washington Post * "Engaging and inspiring" * Publishers Weekly *.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book pretty much ensures that a reader will both understand the logistical difficulties (no actual unit, no access to transportation, constantly having to ask other military personnel for help), the danger (booby-trapped caches of loot, dank salt mines filled with art and explosives, German soldier ambush), and the heroic nature of the Monument Men's job (especially those who worked in Germany and had to reconcile risk to life and limb to save cultural heritage sites like Aachen Cathedral after touring devastating places like Dachau). I particularly enjoyed learning about Lincoln Kirstein (my name doppelganger) who I thought mostly of as a ballet guy, but who turned out to be more of a Renaissance man in his abilities and proclivities than I had understood."
"And thereafter during the war, it was their responsibility to locate the five million movable works and cultural artifacts that were stolen by the Nazis, which included works by Leonardo Da Vinci, Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and Donatello and the pieces that were the highlight of Edsel’s book, the Ghent Altar pieces, Bayeaux Tapestry, and painting of Mother and Child. And their training such as Stout’s focused on understanding raw materials, degradation and cause of deterioration, and preparation to prevent deterioration and damage, which would be beneficial once he delved in the race against time to save the artworks. For the Kindle edition, maps may have been helpful and the photographs may have been dispersed within each chapter rather than at the end of the book."
"My major criticism of this book, and the reason why I could not award the fifth star, is the actual writing, both on the sentence level and the paragraph level, even the chapter arrangements. As a retired Professor of English I was frequently reaching for my non-existent red pen (I read the book on Kindle) to make the sentence-level writing clearer, and also frequently looking back to earlier paragraphs to check on dates and events because the chronology had become confusing."
Understanding the visitor experience provides essential insights into how museums can affect people’s lives. -Nannette V. Maciejunes, Columbus Museum of Art. He offers a work in progress, a theoretical model (the Museum Visitor Experience Model), to help visualize the relationships between museum and visitor, emphasizing the types of experience, not visitors. After closing the back cover, as a visitor researcher, I wanted to immediately locate the instrument, get out on the museum floor, and try it out with visitors. In fact, his model can be seen as a vehicle by which to re-examine the public value of museums.”-Kathleen Tinworth (Denver Museum of Nature & Science), Museum Anthropology. Drawing upon a career in studying museum visitors, renowned researcher John Falk attempts to create a predictive model of visitor experience, one that can help museum professionals better meet those visitors needs.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"In this book he talks about five museum visitor identities: Explorer, Facilitator, Experience Seeker, Professional/Hobbyist, and Recharger. I currently work at a museum complex in Lehi, Utah called Thanksgiving Point, and I look forward to incorporating the ideas in Falk's book into our practices here."
"For someone looking to work in museums, this book is important in understanding the various groups who attend museums."
"This book really helped me in my final paper for one of my classes."
"Interesting insight into the museum visitor experience, though a bit too broad and theoretical."
"Great book."
"Good information to ponder."
"Another fabulous book by Falk."
"While the book isn't overly technical (it pulls mostly qualitative data), Falk & Dierking's mixed methods provide a compelling case for the framework they've developed for both visitor identity and learning in informal spaces."
Topics range from personal branding and resume writing to managing from the middle and leadership at all levels; from professional writing to keeping a career journal; from navigating within your institution to knowing when it's time to move on. (Carol B. Stapp, director of the Museum Education Program, The George Washington) Greg Stevens has run the American Alliance of Museums’ Professional Development program since 2007, addressing career, management and leadership development, professional skills-building, and mentoring for the museum field.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Now imagine these same professionals will take you through every step of the way in an interactive and straightforward manner that range from finding sense out of working in museums to practical tips on how to be a successful leader within your institution."
"As a recently graduated Public History student, this book was exactly what I needed."
"They also call on over two dozen other museum professionals who in turn provide insights, specific knowledge, and at times reveal their own stories and unique situations, thus, making this book more intriguing and personal than just a "textbook" on how to succeed in a museum career."
"Upon reading A Life in Museums, it was not only confirmed that I wanted to work in the museum field, it gave me countless inside tips that I would not have considered nor known about if I had not read this book."
"As an Emerging Museum Professional, I found this book to be an essential read as I began looking for employment."
"This book had some helpful advice for a newbie museum worker which is why I bought it, but be prepared to pop this on the shelf as a reference book if you're new to the industry like me as a considerable portion of the book will only be relevant to mid-career museum workers."
"As a museum professional at an international organization, I have found this book extremely valuable in helping me take perspective on my own career path."
Best Modern Art
At the same time Adolf Hitler was attempting to take over the western world, his armies were methodically seeking and hoarding the finest art treasures in Europe. (Coincidentally or not, this book appears only briefly after Ilaria Dagnini Brey's The Venus Fixers: The Untold Story of the Allied Soldiers Who Saved Italy's Art During World War II , Reviews, June 1.). Our task, I believe, was truly important - we were restoring to Europe evidence of its own civilization, which the War seemed virtually to have destroyed - and I was lucky to have had a chance to participate. -- Anne Olivier Bell "Highly Readable ... a remarkable history" * Washington Post * "Engaging and inspiring" * Publishers Weekly *.
Reviews
Find Best Price at Amazon"The book pretty much ensures that a reader will both understand the logistical difficulties (no actual unit, no access to transportation, constantly having to ask other military personnel for help), the danger (booby-trapped caches of loot, dank salt mines filled with art and explosives, German soldier ambush), and the heroic nature of the Monument Men's job (especially those who worked in Germany and had to reconcile risk to life and limb to save cultural heritage sites like Aachen Cathedral after touring devastating places like Dachau). I particularly enjoyed learning about Lincoln Kirstein (my name doppelganger) who I thought mostly of as a ballet guy, but who turned out to be more of a Renaissance man in his abilities and proclivities than I had understood."
"And thereafter during the war, it was their responsibility to locate the five million movable works and cultural artifacts that were stolen by the Nazis, which included works by Leonardo Da Vinci, Jan Vermeer, Rembrandt, Michelangelo, and Donatello and the pieces that were the highlight of Edsel’s book, the Ghent Altar pieces, Bayeaux Tapestry, and painting of Mother and Child. And their training such as Stout’s focused on understanding raw materials, degradation and cause of deterioration, and preparation to prevent deterioration and damage, which would be beneficial once he delved in the race against time to save the artworks. For the Kindle edition, maps may have been helpful and the photographs may have been dispersed within each chapter rather than at the end of the book."
"My major criticism of this book, and the reason why I could not award the fifth star, is the actual writing, both on the sentence level and the paragraph level, even the chapter arrangements. As a retired Professor of English I was frequently reaching for my non-existent red pen (I read the book on Kindle) to make the sentence-level writing clearer, and also frequently looking back to earlier paragraphs to check on dates and events because the chronology had become confusing."
Best Native American Art History
Since it is composed of bold images laid out in an easy-to-understand format, it will definitely attract and keep the attention. We continually update our products, ensuring accuracy of information, making sure they are fun and entertaining.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Almost none of the statements have supporting findings or even solid background, but this is a book intended for young readers and as most books are from this publisher, intended to inspire further study. In that one however, he meets up with a female, and from an adult perspective, it’s rather comical, though I’m not sure I would want young boys spending too much time on that page…. Overall, this book will provide a basis for discussion on how Native Americans came to live in the Americas."
"The book has illustrations depicting how these people may have looked and some of the things they would have done, such as hunting mammoths with spears. It describes how they hunted meat and ate it, as well as how they gathered seeds, fruits, and roots to live on as well."
"As a teacher of elementary students, I would love to incorporate this ebook into a small group activity where I present a main idea or topic to the whole class and then they break up in small groups and discover more material on their own."
"I didn't know there was soMA many books I could find that aren't just a ton of reading these books for first grade from baby professor ask have many photos that add to learning about each subject."
"However since they are computer generated (there were no cameras back then) they didn’t capture my kid’s attention. Overall it is worth the read and a good starting point in exploring the pre historic people who inhabited North America. This book starts out letting us know that the name given to them is just a classification for the first people who entered the American continents. The book makes this fact clear by stating that they came at least 13,000 years ago, but perhaps they came much earlier. This book tells how since they were here during the late ice age that climate changes caused them to have to move. The final page of this book gives us a great definition of Paleo."
Best Private Museums & Collections
For four and a half decades, Etta and Claribel Cone roamed artists’ studios and art galleries in Europe, building one of the largest, most important art collections in the world. At one time, these two independently wealthy Jewish women from Baltimore received offers from virtually every prominent art museum in the world, all anxious to house their hitherto private assemblage of modern art. Though it intimately portrays two powerful, influential, ahead-of-their-time women, The Art of Acquiring is more than a tale of two sisters, more than an important addition to art history, and more than a major contribution to the study of women's history. Because it reproduces some of the more famous and important art of Matisse, Picasso, Cézanne, Dégas, and others, The Art of Acquiring enables readers to practically step through the canvas and live in the shocking paintings these two unsung sisters purchased, then gave to the world-at-large. But here Gabriel (Notorious Victoria: The Rise and Fall of Victoria Woodhull) focuses on "the barely recognized link" between modernist masters such as C?zanne, Degas, Picasso and Matisse, and the largely forgotten art collectors Etta and Claribel Cone, wealthyAand stolidly VictorianABaltimore sisters who, starting around the turn of the century, devoted their lives to amassing one of the largest and most remarkable collections of modern art in the world. (June). Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. Heiresses to a family fortune, Etta and Claribel Cone, Jewish sisters from Baltimore, amassed a major collection of modern French artworks.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Recommended for art lovers and those who simply enjoy a good read, The Art of Acquiring tells the fascinating story of two sisters who are unknown by many."
"The story seems like a fantasy that the Cone sisters were able to buy Matisse, Picasso, Degas and many other famous painters work for just pennies."
"This book, which covers the collecting years of the Cone sisters, breathes life into the time period interweaving the stories of Gertrude and Leo Stein, Alice Tolkas, Matisse, & Picasso."
"The book is well written and well researched and really brings to life these two amazing women and the lives they led."
"Did not know anything about the Cone sisters."
"Became interested in the Cone sisters when attending an exhibit of their collection."
"To have read this book after twice visiting the Cone Wing @ BMA makes me desire to return and give a blessed thanks to these incredible collectors."
"This is a thorough and entertaining history of two Amèrican art collectors."