epub |eng | | Author:Cuno, James;

FIVE IDENTITY MATTERS I want to insist that the terrible reductive conflicts that herd people under falsely unifying rubrics like “America,” “The West” or “Islam” and invent collective identities for ...

epub |eng | | Author:Michelle Moon

Chapter 4 Local Flavor: Interpreting Food and Place In the novel Moby-Dick, Herman Melville’s Ishmael is introduced to the island of Nantucket, center of Yankee whaling, through a local inn’s ...

epub |eng | 2020-03-11 | Author:Jessica D. Jenkins

29 A Formidable Opponent Anti-Suffrage Pennant, 1900–1920, Lorenzo State Historic Site, Cazenovia, NY, https://parks.ny.gov/historic-sites/15/details.aspx LORENZO STATE HISTORIC SITE, CAZENOVIA, NY, NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION ...

epub |eng | | Author:Nigel Spivey [Spivey, Nigel]

Fig. 30 Detail of ‘the François Vase’, c.570 BC: Ajax (AIAS) carrying the body of Achilles (ACHIL[L]EUS, in retrograde). The full story of how Achilles died was told in the ...

epub |eng | 2020-07-14 | Author:James Gardner [Gardner, James]

Of the Louvre’s many paintings by Hubert Robert, none is more disconcerting than his Imaginary View of the Grande Galerie in Ruins from 1796, which depicts the building as a ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-14 | Author:Cuno, James;

CONTEXTS AND CONTEXTS It comes down to a very fundamental division in museums. There are art museums and there are what can generally be called natural history or history museums. ...

epub |eng | 2020-02-18 | Author:Susan A. Fletcher

Part VII ACTION FIGURES On Christmas Day 1987, a boy named Dan ran downstairs at his grandmother’s house to the awaiting Christmas tree and presents. To his sheer delight, “Standing ...

epub |eng | 2020-06-14 | Author:Stanley Mazaroff

9 BERENSON’S FAUSTIAN BARGAIN WITH DUVEEN In an art market unrestricted by ethical standards, the dealer who was widely considered to be the most unscrupulous was Joseph Duveen. Duveen’s biographer ...

epub |eng | 2011-09-20 | Author:Michel Laclotte [Laclotte, Michel]

Imparting one’s interest—and even better, one’s vocation—is a joy for any teacher. A certain number of our students (generally speaking, the ones who had left the university some time before ...

epub |eng | 2014-11-14 | Author:Anne Gerritsen & Giorgio Riello

Notes 1 L. H. Sigourney (1868), Letters of Life. New York: D. Appleton, p. 46; and (1854), Sketch of Connecticut, Forty Years Since. Hartford: Oliver D. Cooke and Sons, pp. ...

epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Tim Grove [Tim Grove]

11. You Can’t Write My History History is written by the winners, they say. But it is often the losers who care more about it. —Carolyn Gilman “You cannot write ...

epub |eng | 2012-11-30 | Author:Justin Paton

Gentlemen, be kind. Of all the paintings which are here, seek out the worst, and remember that two thousand unfortunates have bitten their brushes in two, despairing of even doing ...

epub |eng | | Author:Ulrich Boser

9. SELF-PORTRAIT I Was the One MYLES CONNOR spent the night of the Gardner robbery sleeping in a Chicago prison cell, awaiting sentencing on stolen property charges, the final coda ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-02 | Author:Pete Gershon

epub |eng | 2016-03-14 | Author:Brumann, Christoph,Berliner, David & David Berliner

Conclusion Over time, there have been remarkable shifts in the value and meaning attached to Indonesia’s cultural heritage (Salazar 2012). The postcolonial government has successfully managed to use the most ...