Extinct Monsters To Deep Time
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Extinct Monsters To Deep Time
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Author : Diana E. Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2019-02-18
Extinct Monsters To Deep Time written by Diana E. Marsh and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-18 with Art categories.
Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century. Describing participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time, the author provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public. From the introduction: In exhibit projects, the tension plays out between curatorial staff—academic, research, or scientific staff charged with content—and exhibitions, public engagement, or educational staff—which I broadly group together as “audience advocates” charged with translating content for a broader public. I have heard Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the NMNH, say many times that if you look at dinosaur halls at different museums across the country, you can see whether the curators or the exhibits staff has “won.” At the American Museum of Natural History in New York, it was the curators. The hall is stark white and organized by phylogeny—or the evolutionary relationships of species—with simple, albeit long, text panels. At the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Johnson will tell you, it was the “exhibits people.” The hall is story driven and chronologically organized, full of big graphic prints, bold fonts, immersive and interactive spaces, and touchscreens. At the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where Johnson had previously been vice president and chief curator, “we actually fought to a draw.” That, he says, is the best outcome; a win on either side skews the final product too extremely in one direction or the other. This creative tension, when based on mutual respect, is often what makes good exhibitions.
Extinct Monsters To Deep Time
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Author : Diana E. Marsh
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Extinct Monsters To Deep Time written by Diana E. Marsh and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Art categories.
Via the Smithsonian Institution, an exploration of the growing friction between the research and outreach functions of museums in the 21st century. Describing participant observation and historical research at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History as it prepared for its largest-ever exhibit renovation, Deep Time, the author provides a grounded perspective on the inner-workings of the world’s largest natural history museum and the social processes of communicating science to the public. From the introduction: In exhibit projects, the tension plays out between curatorial staff—academic, research, or scientific staff charged with content—and exhibitions, public engagement, or educational staff—which I broadly group together as “audience advocates” charged with translating content for a broader public. I have heard Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the NMNH, say many times that if you look at dinosaur halls at different museums across the country, you can see whether the curators or the exhibits staff has “won.” At the American Museum of Natural History in New York, it was the curators. The hall is stark white and organized by phylogeny—or the evolutionary relationships of species—with simple, albeit long, text panels. At the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Johnson will tell you, it was the “exhibits people.” The hall is story driven and chronologically organized, full of big graphic prints, bold fonts, immersive and interactive spaces, and touchscreens. At the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, where Johnson had previously been vice president and chief curator, “we actually fought to a draw.” That, he says, is the best outcome; a win on either side skews the final product too extremely in one direction or the other. This creative tension, when based on mutual respect, is often what makes good exhibitions.
Reimagining Dinosaurs In Late Victorian And Edwardian Literature
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Author : Richard Fallon
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-04
Reimagining Dinosaurs In Late Victorian And Edwardian Literature written by Richard Fallon and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Reimagining Dinosaurs argues that transatlantic popular literature was critical for transforming the dinosaur into a cultural icon between 1880 and 1920
Scenes From Deep Time
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Author : Martin J. S. Rudwick
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-12-15
Scenes From Deep Time written by Martin J. S. Rudwick and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-12-15 with Art categories.
How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.
Extinct Monsters
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Author : Henry Neville Hutchinson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Extinct Monsters written by Henry Neville Hutchinson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Dinosaurs categories.
List of British localities where remains of the mammoth have been discovered p. [258]-260.
Identity Culture And The Science Performance Volume 1
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Author : Vivian Appler
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-08-11
Identity Culture And The Science Performance Volume 1 written by Vivian Appler and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-08-11 with Performing Arts categories.
Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1: From the Lab to the Streets is the first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance. A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, it examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations. The book's chapters trace the theatrical and ethical contours of live science events, re-enact historical stagings of scientific expertise, and demonstrate the pedagogical and activist potentials in performing science in community settings. Alongside the scholarly chapters, From the Lab to the Streets features creative work by contemporary science-integrative artists and interviews with popular science communicators Sahana Srinivasan (host of Netflix's Brainchild) and Raven Baxter (“Raven the Science Maven”) and artists from performance ensembles The Olimpias and Superhero Clubhouse. In exploring the science performance as a vital but flawed method of public engagement, it offers a critique of the racist, ableist, sexist, and heteronormative ideologies prevalent across the history of science, as well as highlighting science performances that challenge and redress these ideologies. Along with its complementary volume From the Curious to the Quantum, this book documents the varied ways in which identity categories and cultural constructs are formed and reformed through science performances.
Mendel S Ark
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Author : Amy Lynn Fletcher
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2014-09-19
Mendel S Ark written by Amy Lynn Fletcher and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-19 with Science categories.
Does extinction have to be forever? As the global extinction crisis accelerates, conservationists and policy-makers increasingly use advanced biotechnologies such as reproductive cloning, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and bioinformatics in the urgent effort to save species. Mendel's Ark considers the ethical, cultural and social implications of using these tools for wildlife conservation. Drawing upon sources ranging from science to science fiction, it focuses on the stories we tell about extinction and the meanings we ascribe to nature and technology. The use of biotechnology in conservation is redrawing the boundaries between animals and machines, nature and artifacts, and life and death. The new rhetoric and practice of de-extinction will thus have significant repercussions for wilderness and for society. The degree to which we engage collectively with both the prosaic and the fantastic aspects of biotechnological conservation will shape the boundaries and ethics of our desire to restore lost worlds.
Contested Holdings
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Author : Felicity Bodenstein
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2022-02-14
Contested Holdings written by Felicity Bodenstein and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-14 with Art categories.
Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate, restitution is considered as part of a larger set of processes of return that affect museums and collections, as well as notions of heritage and object status. Covering a range of case studies and a global geography, the authors aim to historicize and bring depth to contemporary debates in relation to both the return of material culture and human remains. Defined as contested holdings, differing museum collections ranging from fine arts to physical anthropology provide connections between the treatment and conceptualization of collections that generally occupy separate realms in the museum world.
Prehistoric Monsters
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Author : Allen A. Debus
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-11-21
Prehistoric Monsters written by Allen A. Debus and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-21 with Nature categories.
Over centuries, discoveries of fossil bones spawned legends of monsters such as giants and dragons. As the field of earth sciences matured during the 19th century, early fossilists gained understanding of prehistoric creatures such as Tyrannosaurus, Triceratops and Stegosaurus. This historical study examines how these genuine beasts morphed in the public imagination into mythical, powerful engines of destruction and harbingers of cataclysm, taking their place in popular culture, film, and literature as symbols of "lost worlds" where time stands still.
Biological Extinction
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Author : Partha Dasgupta
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-09-05
Biological Extinction written by Partha Dasgupta and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Business & Economics categories.
Questions why species are becoming extinct, and how we can protect the natural world on which we all depend.