The Natural History Museum At South Kensington
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The Natural History Museum At South Kensington
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Author : William Thomas Stearn
language : en
Publisher: Rudolph William Sabbott Natural History Books
Release Date : 1981
The Natural History Museum At South Kensington written by William Thomas Stearn and has been published by Rudolph William Sabbott Natural History Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with British Museum (Natural History) categories.
The Natural History Museum At South Kensington
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Author : William Thomas Stearn
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Natural History Museum At South Kensington written by William Thomas Stearn and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
The Natural History Museum
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Author : John C. Thackray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
The Natural History Museum written by John C. Thackray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Art categories.
Taking the reader on a whirlwind journey through the history of the Natural History Museum, this volume covers the people, the influences and the discoveries. It chronicles the most important milestones in the development of the Museum.
The Birds Of America
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Author : John James Audubon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
The Birds Of America written by John James Audubon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with Birds categories.
This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
The Novel And The Menagerie
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Author : Kurt Koenigsberger
language : en
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Release Date : 2007
The Novel And The Menagerie written by Kurt Koenigsberger and has been published by Ohio State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
"The first comprehensive account of the relation of collections of imperial beasts to narrative practices in England, The Novel and the Menagerie explores an array of imaginative responses to the empire as a dominant, shaping factor in English daily life. Kurt Koenigsberger argues that domestic English novels and collections of zoological exotica (especially zoos, circuses, traveling menageries, and colonial and imperial exhibitions) share important aesthetic strategies and cultural logics: novels about English daily life and displays featuring collections of exotic animals both strive to relate Englishness to a larger empire conceived as an integrated whole." "Koenigsberger's investigations range from readings of novels by authors such as Charles Dickens, Virginia Woolf, Salman Rushdie, and Angela Carter to analyses of ballads, handbills, broadsides, and memoirs of showmen. Attending closely to the collective English practices of imagining and delineating the empire as a whole, The Novel and the Menagerie works at the juncture of literary criticism, colonial discourse studies, and cultural analysis to historicize the notion of totality in the theory and practice of the English novel. In exploring the shapes of the novel in England and of the English institutions that collected exotic animals, it offers fresh readings of familiar literary texts and opens up new ways of understanding the character of imperial Englishness across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
On Exhibit
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Author : Barbara J. Black
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2000
On Exhibit written by Barbara J. Black and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Architecture categories.
Why did the Victorians collect with such a vengeance and exhibit in museums? Focusing on this key nineteenth-century enterprise, Barbara J. Black illuminates British culture of the period by examining the cultural power that this collecting and exhibiting possessed. Through its museums, she argues, Victorian London constructed itself as a world city. Using the tools of cultural criticism, social history, and literary analysis, Black roots Victorian museum culture in key political events and cultural forces: British imperialism, exploration, and tourism; advances in science and changing attitudes about knowledge; the commitment to improved public taste through mass education; the growth of middle-class dominance and the resulting bourgeois fetishism and commodity culture; and the democratization of luxury engendered by the French and industrial revolutions. She covers a wide range of genres--from poetry to museum guidebooks to the triple-decker novel--and treats three London museums as case studies: Sir John Soane's house-museum, the Natural History Museum, and the exemplary South Kensington. While On Exhibit provides a fascinating analysis of Victorian society, it also reminds us how modern the Victorians were--how, in crucial ways, our culture derives from the Victorian era. Forging connections among museums, urbanism, and modernity, Black provokes us to examine cultural imperialism and the costs and advantages of cultural consensus.
Museum Through A Lens
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Author : Susan Snell
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Museum Through A Lens written by Susan Snell and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Art categories.
Visit the Natural History Museum 100 years ago. Featuring a wealth of stunning black-and-white photographs from the Museum's archives, this book offers a real flavor of life at one of London's oldest and most famous visitor attractions, from Victorian times until just after World War II. The book focuses on the unusual events that have taken place over the years, the characters working at and visiting the Museum, and of course the remarkable specimens. The photographs go back as far as the 1880s, the earliest years of the Museum, when only a few horse-drawn carriages plied the streets of South Kensington and elephants and gorillas from distant parts of the British Empire were exhibited for the first time. In later years the Museum gardens were to be dug over for vegetable production during World War II and whale carcasses were buried in the grounds to allow the flesh to rot away. Ranging from the amazing to the amusing, the images are evocative and brimming with period detail. The authors are senior archivists and well placed to share their knowledge of the stories that lie behind the silver-nitrate surface of the old photographic prints.
Catalogue Of The Objects Of Indian Art Exhibited In The South Kensington Museum
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Author : Henry Hardy Cole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1874
Catalogue Of The Objects Of Indian Art Exhibited In The South Kensington Museum written by Henry Hardy Cole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1874 with Art categories.
Survey Of London
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1963
Survey Of London written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1963 with London (England) categories.
Dry Store Room No 1 The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum Text Only
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Author : Richard Fortey
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-06-24
Dry Store Room No 1 The Secret Life Of The Natural History Museum Text Only written by Richard Fortey and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-24 with Science categories.
This edition does not include illustrations. ‘Dry Store Room No. 1’ is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination.