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Thought-provoking discussions on conservation from various points of view. What is Conservation? is an unconventional introduction to the topic of conservation in all its forms, facilitated through discussions with MacArthur Fellows. The discussions took place in New York in the Spring of 2022 alongside an exhibition at Bard Graduate Center called "Conserving Active Matter.� This volume seeks to acquaint readers who are new to the subject by...

Surveys some of the landmark devices in the history of personal computing - including the Commodore 64, Apple Macintosh Plus, Palm Pilot Professional, and Microsoft Kinect - and helps you to understand the historical shifts that have occurred with the design and material experience of each machine.

A first of its kind exploration of early modern European culinary history. Staging the Table in Europe represents the first book-length study of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century illustrated handbooks for cooking and dining that provided instruction for nearly every element of the dining experience, from expertly carving meats and fruits to folding napkins into animal forms, performing tableside magic tricks, and creating tablescapes for cour...

Considers the future of conservation and its connection to the human sciences.  This volume brings together the findings from a five-year research project that seeks to reimagine the relationship between conservation knowledge and the humanistic study of the material world. The project, “Cultures of Conservation, � was supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and included events, seminars, and an artist-in-residence.  The effort to c...

A volume considering questions of conservation that arise with new artistic mediums and practices. Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms‿such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked components‿that pose a new set of questions about what art actually is, both physically and conceptually. For conservators...

A range of contributors address the nature and definition of research

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First published in the United States of America by the University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 2014"--Title page verso.

Debates on the Purpose and Practices of Historical and Ethnographic Museums.

This catalogue is published in conjunction with the exhibition Fabricating power with Balinese textiles held at Bard Graduate Center Gallery, 2017"--Title page verso.

Examines the relationship between making objects and knowing nature in Europe from the mid-15th to mid-19th centuries

History is usually thought of as a tale of time, a string of events flowing in a particular chronological order. But as Karl Schlögel shows in this groundbreaking book, the where of history is just as important as the when. Schlögel relishes space the way a writer relishes a good story: on a quest for a type of history that takes full account of place, he explores everything from landscapes to cities, maps to railway timetables. Do you know th...

Today, China's classical antiquity is often studied through recovered artifacts, but before this practice became widespread, scholars instead reconstructed the distant past through classical texts and transmitted illustrations. Among the most important illustrated commentaries was the Sanli tu, or Illustrations to the Ritual Classics, whose origins are said to date back to the great commentator Zheng Xuan. Design by the Book, which accompanies...

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Derived from the Latin term "ex voto suscepto" meaning made in accordance with a vow, ex votos embody the hopes, dreams, and anxieties of the people who deposited them. Thus, almost anything, no matter its size, weight, form, or original function, can become a votive object. The category ex voto refers to a particular subset of the material world in which objects are not necessarily made with the intention of being votive, but become charged w...