Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest 9781839760525, 9781839760501, 9781839760518, 2021930005

Engines of Culture: Philanthropy and Art Museums 1560001739, 9781560001737

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Tear Gas Epiphanies: Protest, Culture, Museums 9780773557000, 9780773557017, 9780773558298

Museums are frequently sites of struggle and negotiation. They are key cultural institutions that occupy an oftentimes u

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Museums and Communities: Diversity, Dialogue and Collaboration in an Age of Migrations 1527516083, 9781527516083

This volume presents seventeen essays critically reflecting on the collaborative work of the contemporary ethnographic m

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The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements 9780226394961

In The Art of Moral Protest, James Jasper integrates diverse examples of protest—from nineteenth-century boycotts to rec

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Museums and Modernity: Art Galleries and the Making of Modern Culture 9781350050730, 9781859735084

Short-listed for the Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2003 Museums have been the subject of intense debate in recent years a

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Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science 9780226293233

In this intriguing history, James Gilbert examines the confrontation between modern science and religion as these dispar

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Museums in a Digital Culture: How Art and Heritage Become Meaningful 9789048524808

This collection of essays takes up the question of the cultural meaning of the information and communications technology

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Things American: Art Museums and Civic Culture in the Progressive Era 9780812205657

Things American examines the relationship between American museums and cultural democracy in the first part of the twent

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Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today 9780759124110, 9780759124103

Aimed at museum educators, Multiculturalism in Art Museums Today seeks to marry museum and multicultural education theor

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The Economics of Art Museums 9780226241777

The National Bureau of Economic Research organized a project to explore the economic issues facing the major art museums

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