Museum Vaults: Excerpts from the Journal of an Expert

Museum Vaults: Excerpts from the Journal of an Expert
Author: Marc-Antoine Mathieu
Publisher: NBM Publishing
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2008-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1561635146

The next volume in the striking collection in co-publication with the Louvre museum. An art assessor must evaluate the vast collections of the Louvre in an alternate Kafkaesque world where all is warehoused in an endless ever deepening succession of basement levels. Mathieu, an artist who marries Escher with Kafka, brings stinging irony to the pompousness of art history.

Museum Vaults

Museum Vaults
Author: Marc-Antoine Mathieu
Publisher: Paw Prints
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009-04-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781442002012

In a dark, half-ruined museum, an expert investigates its subterranean levels in an attempt to catalog all of it's abandoned treasures.

Fabricate 2024

Fabricate 2024
Author: Bob Sheil
Publisher: UCL Press
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2024-04-04
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1800086342

Fabricate 2024: Creating Resourceful Futures is the fifth volume in the series of Fabricate publications. The first conference – ‘Making Digital Architecture’ – explored the ways in which technology, design and industry are shaping the world around us. Since then, we have become finely attuned to the negative impacts of this shaping. The 2024 conference, hosted in Copenhagen, sets focus on the pressing need to develop new models for architectural production that rethink how resource is deployed, its intensity, its socio-ecological origins and sensitivity to environment. This book features the work of designers, engineers and makers operating within the built environment. It documents disruptive approaches that reconsider how fabrication can be leveraged to address our collective and entangled challenges of resource scarcity, climate emergency and burgeoning demand. Exploring case studies of completed buildings and works-in-progress, together with interviews with leading thinkers, this edition of Fabricate offers a plurality of tangible models for design and production that set a creative and responsible course towards resourceful futures.

Displacements

Displacements
Author: Angelika Bammer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1994-12-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780253208972

Essays in this volume examine the effects of leaving one's native culture or experiencing the imposition of a colonising culture.

Moscow

Moscow
Author: Caroline Brooke
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 310
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780195309522

Caroline Brooke explores the way in which Moscow has reinvented itself over the years and the fascination it has exerted over the many writers, artists, and composers who made the city their home.

Nature's Keeper

Nature's Keeper
Author: Gary Ferguson
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2012
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 159152086X

Once hailed by Time magazine as "the Johnny Appleseed of nature museums," John Ripley Forbes arguably did as much as anyone in history to keep the wonders of nature alive for America's children. Through seven decades of passionate, tireless effort, Forbes helped create outdoor-based science and learning centers in more than 200 communities across the country. Nature's Keeper chronicles the life of this extraordinary educator, from his teen years with renowned conservationist William Hornaday, to his celebrated "animal lending libraries" of the 1950s and 1960s, to his final preservation victories at the end of the twentieth century.

The World Without Us

The World Without Us
Author: Alan Weisman
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2008-08-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780312427900

A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: National Endowment for the Arts
Publisher:
Total Pages: 288
Release: 1983
Genre:
ISBN:

Reports for 1980- include also the Annual report of the National Council on the Arts.