Quando il teatro va al museo. Una storia di oggi
Altre Modernità, 2011 From the early 1970s, the British playwrights of the last thirty years have often turned their attention to existing collections, museums or curatorship. This essay will analyse two plays which are built around a “question of attribution”.
Mariacristina Cavecchi
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Bibliography of Art and Architecture in the Islamic World
American Journal of Islam and Society, 2014 Index Islamicus, begun in 1906, is a database of bibliographic information of publications in all areas of studies connected with the Islamic world. Since that time, interest in Islamic art and architecture has surged from specialists to many scholars ...
Tammy Gaber
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Visiting Professorships at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015
Calenda, 2012 Visiting Professorships at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, 2013-2015 The deadline for all professorship applications is January 15, 2013. Two professorships are available at the Courtauld Institute to present the best recent scholarship on historical American art.
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DiSCmap : digitisation of special collections mapping, assessment, prioritisation. Final project report [PDF]
, 2009 Traditionally, digitisation has been led by supply rather than demand. While end users are seen as a priority they are not directly consulted about which collections they would like to have made available digitally or why.
Birrell, Duncan +5 more
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SOAS Library: Chinese art and archaeology collection [PDF]
, 2014 Chinese art has always been well-represented within SOAS Library. This article provides an overview of the Chinese art and archaeology collection, highlighting materials that make it unique, from rare books to literati paintings and woodblock prints.
Wood, Jiyeon
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Progress in strain monitoring of tapestries
, 2008 This paper reports interdisciplinary research between conservators and engineers designed to enhance the long-term conservation of tapestries (tapestry-weave hangings) on longterm display.
Chambers, A.R. +5 more
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The Ghost Begins by Coming Back. Revenants And Returns In Maud Sulter’s Photomontages [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter considers the photomontage work of the artist and writer Maud Sulter (1960-2008), focussing on her series from 1993, Syrcas which explores the cross cultural connections of a child of African heritage growing up in Germany during the Third ...
Cherry, Deborah
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‘Most I saw were very dirty, some very ragged and all of very coarse cloth’: the conservation of the nineteenth-century student gown in the Hunterian, University of Glasgow [PDF]
, 2012 A rare and important 19th century student gown in the collection of the Hunterian Museum had survived remarkably intact over the years, but to ensure its future long-term preservation, it was sent to the University of Glasgow Centre for Textile ...
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Variations sur la galerie des Glaces pour le château de Choisy ?
Bulletin du Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles, 2006 Thirty very finished drawings and watercolours by Charles de La Fosse held in Würzburg form the puzzle of a mysterious ceiling decoration. Four sheets by Michel Corneille the Younger are the key: a copy from La Fosse in a private collection, two sections
Bénédicte Gady
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Re-Introducing Visitors: Thoughts and Discussion on John Falk’s Notion of Visitors’ Identity-Related Visit Motivations [PDF]
, 2010 Until today museums have tried to identify and segment their audiences based on their demographics. After years of conducting research in the US, John Falk in 2009 introduced a descriptive and predictive framework for identifying visitors on the basis of
Christidou, D
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