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Loot: The Battle Over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World by Sharon Waxman Publisher Comments “Fast-paced and compelling . . . Waxman has an array of wondrous tales to tell . . . Considerable, admirable, and totally absorbing.”—The Boston Globe For the past two centuries, the West has plundered the treasures of the ancient world... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Exhibiting Contradiction: Essays on the Art Museum in the United States by Alan Wallach Publisher Comments Provocative essays on the history and function of American art museums Since the 1970s, the field of critical museum studies has grown enormously. Increased interest in the cultural role of the art museum derives in part from the rise of critical theory... (read more) List Price $15.16 Your price: $13.45 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Contesting Knowledge: Museums and Indigenous Perspectives by Susan Sleeper Smith Publisher Comments This interdisciplinary and international collection of essays illuminates the importance and effects of Indigenous perspectives for museums. The contributors challenge and complicate the traditionally close colonialist connections between museums and... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.95 Used - Trade Paper
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America's Medicis: The Rockefellers and Their Astonishing Cultural Legacy by Suzanne Loebl Publisher Comments The first book to explore the immense cultural contributions of one of America's wealthiest and most influential families: the Rockefellers. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller sparked her family's passion for art, but it was her husband, John D. Rockefeller Jr... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $16.95 Used - Hardcover
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Museums Matter: In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum (Rice University Campbell Lectures) by James B. Cuno Publisher Comments The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of societys growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society.... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Hardcover
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Scandals, Vandals, and Da Vincis: A Gallery of Remarkable Art Tales by Harvey Rachlin Publisher Comments The secret histories of the worldand#146;s most famous masterpieces Caravaggios, Rembrandts, Monetsand#151;the works of immortal artists such as these are indelibly imprinted in the public mind; they are priceless masterpieces whose beauty, artistry, and... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Museum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Danny Danziger Publisher Comments A unique oral portrait of the Met, drawing on interviews with everyone from the director to the security guards The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the greatest museums in the world. It is an enormous place that takes up five city blocks and has... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Hardcover
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Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners by Sandy Nairne Publisher Comments In 1994 two important paintings by J.M.W. Turner—then valued at twenty-four million pounds—were stolen from a German public gallery while on loan from Tate Britain. In this vivid, personal account, Sandy Nairne who was then Director of... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper: Basic Procedures for Paper Preservation by Anne F Clapp Publisher Comments Curatorial Care of Works of Art on Paper is one of the most authoritative books available on the proper care of prints, drawings, sketches, watercolors, and other works of art on paper. In its previous form, as a monograph published by the Intermuseum... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The National Gallery: An Illustrated History by Alan Crookham Publisher Comments The National Gallery started life in 1824 when the British government purchased the collection of 38 pictures belonging to the estate of wealthy banker John Julius Angerstein. As there was no suitable space available to display the collection, the... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $16.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Museum in America: Innovators and Pioneers by Edward Porter Alexander Publisher Comments The American museum was not born, but made. Visionary museum innovators transformed the private curiosity collections of the 19th century into today's public institutions of education. The Museum in America recounts the colorful histories of thirteen... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $30.75 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Rethinking Curating: Art After New Media (Leonardo) by Beryl Graham Publisher Comments As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art--but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks, difficult to classify... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Making It New: Essays, Interviews, and Talks (Harvest Book) by Henry Geldzahler Publisher Comments This is Geldzahler's (longtime curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) written legacy, a collection of essays, interviews, and talks covering three turbulent decades in which he and the artists he championed defined what was new and important in... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Master Pieces: The Curator's Game by Thomas Hoving Publisher Comments Hoving introduces readers to the challenge of identifying art and to the rewards of familiarity with the great works. A section of paintings and essays introduces a range of artists, themes, techniques, and styles, while progressively demanding "clues... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient Heritage by James Cuno Publisher Comments Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Hardcover
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Rethinking the Museum: And Other Meditations by Stephen E Weil Synopsis In these 19 insightful and frequently witty meditations, Stephen E. Weil examines the purposes and functions of the museum in the late 20th century, proposing museums make encounters with a variety of visitors more central to their operation.... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Thief by Myles J Connor Publisher Comments “There’s a rush to it, an elevation of the senses. . . . It’s a sweet feeling, one I’ll never get tired of, not on my twentieth heist, or my fiftieth, or my hundredth.” Once a promising young rock musician, the son of a... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Subject to Display Subject to Display: Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art Reframing Race in Contemporary Installation Art by Jennifer A Gonzalez Synopsis An exploration of the visual culture of "race" through the work of five contemporary artists who came to prominence during the 1990s.... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Art of the Heist: Confessions of a Master Art Thief, Rock-And-Roller, and Prodigal Son by Jenny Siler Myles J. Connor Publisher Comments From New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, to the Smithsonian Institution in D.C., to Boston's Museum of Fine Art, to dozens of regional museums throughout the United States, no museum was off-limits to legÂendary art thief Myles Connor. He has used... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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How to Visit a Museum by David Finn Synopsis How to Visit a Museum conveys the real excitement of visiting a museum for children and adults in a personal and informal manner. Museum educators will find this book a useful tool for developing programs that help visitors obtain a more rewarding... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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