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Wolfsonian-FIU
As the first 'Founder's Choice' to join Scala's popular 'Director's Choice' series, this stunning book highlights the favourite items of design and culture collected by museum founder Micky Wolfson. As the first 'Founder's Choice' to join Scala's popular 'Director's Choice' series, this stunning book highlights the favourite items of design and culture collected by museum founder Micky Wolfson. Rooted in the greatest century of growth and change humanity has ever known - 1850 to 1950 - The Wolfsonian traces the odyssey from agrarian to urban, colonial empires to Cold War superpowers, the first spike of the Transcontinental Railroad to the advent of television. Offering a unique and personal take on the museum's rich and and varied collection of cultural artifacts, this handy book offers both a guide to Wolfsonian highlights and a glimpse into the art of collecting.
Beauty and Power in the Mediterranean
Through the Honors College at FIU, undergraduate students conducted extensive research using art and propaganda objects from the Wolfsonian-FIU MuseumÕs Research Library located in Miami Beach to produce this book. Objects were selected based upon both aesthetic power and their ability to convey meaning about changing socio-political values. The Wolfsonian was founded in 1986 to exhibit, document and preserve an assemblage of 100,000 objects, including furniture and other decorative arts, paintings, books, prints and ephemera. Objects of propaganda are of particular interest in the museumÕs collection. The seminarÕs research papers have been combined into publication to be included in the collections of major research and archival libraries for further scholarly investigation. Essay topics range from ÒHow the Architecture of Italy and Morocco Influenced 20th Century U.S. ArchitectureÓ to ÒThe Connection between Art and Science in the Changing Views of the Human Body in the MediterraneanÓ. The sixteen essays have been complied into one beautiful publication. This research was selected for presentation at the 2007 Nation Collegiate Honors Council Research Conference in Denver.
Wolfsonian-Florida International University
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is an art museum located in Miami Beach, Florida. The museum highlights its permanent collection of modern art and design, exhibitions, research activities, and educational outreach programs. Information about the museum's opening hours and membership is available.
Graphic Design in Germany
A sweeping and comprehensive catalogue of the graphic arts in Germany from 1890 through World War II, this handsome oversized volume also deals with the methodology of art as a medium of persuasion.
Precarities of 21st Century Childhoods
This book locates internally focused, critical perspectives regarding the social, political, emotional, and mental growth of children. Through the radical openness afforded by psychoanalytic and related frameworks, this volume illuminates, promotes, and helps situate subjectivities that are often blotted out for both the child and society. The overall emphasis is on motifs of lostness and foundness, in terms of the geographies of the psycho-social, and how such motifs govern and regulate what have come to count as the normative indexes of childhood as well as how they exclude other real childhoods.
Playing Place
An essay collection exploring the board game’s relationship to the built environment, revealing the unexpected ways that play reflects perceptions of space. Board games harness the creation of entirely new worlds. From the medieval warlord to the modern urban planner, players are permitted to inhabit a staggering variety of roles and are prompted to incorporate preexisting notions of placemaking into their decisions. To what extent do board games represent the social context of their production? How might they reinforce or subvert normative ideas of community and fulfillment? In Playing Place, Chad Randl and D. Medina Lasansky have curated a collection of thirty-seven fascinating essays, s...
The Grants Register 2023
The Grants Register 2023 is the most authoritative and comprehensive guide available of postgraduate and professional funding worldwide. It contains international coverage of grants in almost 60 countries, both English and non-English speaking; information on subject areas, level of study, eligibility and value of awards; and information on over 6,000 awards provided by over 1,300 awarding bodies. Awarding bodies are arranged alphabetically with a full list of awards to allow for comprehensive reading. The Register contains full contact details including telephone, fax, email and websites as well as details of application procedures and closing dates. It is updated annually to ensure accurate information.
Acts of Possession
The success of internet auction sites like eBay and the cult status of public television's Antiques Roadshow attest to the continued popularity of collecting in American culture. Acts of Possession investigates the ways cultural meanings of collections have evolved and yet remained surprisingly unchanged throughout American history. Drawing upon the body of theoretical work on collecting and focusing on individual as opposed to museum collections, the contributors investigate how, what, and why Americans have collected and explore the inherent meanings behind systems of organization and display. Essays consider the meanings of Thomas Jefferson's Indian Hall at Monticello; the pedagogical the...
