The Masterpieces of the Pergamon and Bode Museum
Author: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Antikensammlung
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Published: 1995
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9783805314237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Germany). Antikensammlung
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9783805314237
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carola Wedel
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9783897735491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Anja Edelmann
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9783886097081
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Péter György
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 6155211582
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These essays are case-studies, the cases unraveling our cultural roots, memory itself. If a museum is the subject, then for instance the way the museum changes face, function, its manner of speech; how, a repository of collections and the cultural memory of humankind itself turns into one of the objects, memories, a custodian and exponent of its own history, or the opposite: how it connects with its modernized environs and changing audience: us. How has, or might the sanctum be transformed into a public venue, go from an inward looking, reverential enclosure to a space full of life. In other studies included here the author speaks of spatial and incarnate remembrance: the radical difference between a monument and a memorial. The duality of “always remembering” and “never forgetting”: a past depersonalized and dehistoricized as it was seized and processed. Of the layers of meaning attached to concentration camps, transmuting essence of artworks, and the difficult, the contradictory but inescapable processing of history and the past, of self-identical existence in history. So that we know we are alive. And how that is so.
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2022-12-05
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9004532455
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The volume exposes the modus operandi of Wilhelm Bode’s strategic involvement in the art market and the formation and dissolution of public and private collections, showcasing his complex agency within the art marketplace of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Author: Janet Kempf
Publisher:
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9783791341491
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: White-Spunner Barney
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1643137239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The intoxicating history of an extraordinary city and her people—from the medieval kings surrounding Berlin's founding to the world wars, tumult, and reunification of the twentieth century. There has always been a particular fervor about Berlin, a combination of excitement, anticipation, nervousness, and a feeling of the unexpected. Throughout history, it has been a city of tensions: geographical, political, religious, and artistic. In the nineteenth-century, political tension became acute between a city that was increasingly democratic, home to Marx and Hegel, and one of the most autocratic regimes in Europe. Artistic tension, between free thinking and liberal movements started to find themselves in direct contention with the formal official culture. Underlying all of this was the ethnic tension—between multi-racial Berliners and the Prussians. Berlin may have been the capital of Prussia but it was never a Prussian city. Then there is war. Few European cities have suffered from war as Berlin has over the centuries. It was sacked by the Hapsburg armies in the Thirty Years War; by the Austrians and the Russians in the eighteenth century; by the French, with great violence, in the early nineteenth century; by the Russians again in 1945 and subsequently occupied, more benignly, by the Allied Powers from 1945 until 1994. Nor can many cities boast such a diverse and controversial number of international figures: Frederick the Great and Bismarck; Hegel and Marx; Mahler, Dietrich, and Bowie. Authors Christopher Isherwood, Bertolt Brecht, and Thomas Mann gave Berlin a cultural history that is as varied as it was groundbreaking. The story vividly told in Berlin also attempts to answer to one of the greatest enigmas of the twentieth century: How could a people as civilized, ordered, and religious as the Germans support first a Kaiser and then the Nazis in inflicting such misery on Europe? Berlin was never as supportive of the Kaiser in 1914 as the rest of Germany; it was the revolution in Berlin in 1918 that lead to the Kaiser's abdication. Nor was Berlin initially supportive of Hitler, being home to much of the opposition to the Nazis; although paradoxically Berlin suffered more than any other German city from Hitler’s travesties. In revealing the often-untold history of Berlin, Barney White-Spunner addresses this quixotic question that lies at the heart of Germany’s uniquely fascinating capital city.
Author: Can Bilsel
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012-07-19
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0199570558
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Antiquity on Display" offers an insight into the history of the imaginative reproductions of architecture housed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the 19th century to the present.
Author: Edward Porter Alexander
Publisher: Rowman Altamira
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780759105096
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1979, Edward P. Alexander's Museums in Motion was hailed as a much-needed addition to the museum literature. In combining the history of museums since the eighteenth century with a detailed examination of the function of museums and museum workers in modern society, it served as an essential resource for those seeking to enter to the museum profession and for established professionals looking for an expanded understanding of their own discipline. Now, Mary Alexander has produced a newly revised edition of the classic text, bringing it the twenty-first century with coverage of emerging trends, resources, and challenges. New material also includes a discussion of the children's museum as a distinct type of institution and an exploration of the role computers play in both outreach and traditional in-person visits.