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...Jane Tompkins Copyright © 1990 by Duke University Press 1990 Jane Tompkins At the Buffalo Bill Museum June 1988 The video at the entrance to the Buffalo Bill Historical Center tells us that Buffalo Bill was the most famous American of his time, that by 1900 over a billion words had been writ­...

...Marianna Jenkins Triumph on Fairmont: Fiske Kimball and the Philadelphia Museum of Art . By George Roberts Mary . Philadelphia and New York : J. B. Lippincott Company , 1959 . Pp. 311 . $6.00 . Copyright © 1960 by Duke University Press 1960 Book Reviews 311 Triumph...

...N. I. White Letters of Thomas Hood. From the Dilke Papers in the British Museum . Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Marchand Leslie A. . New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press , 1945 . Pp. 104 . $2.00 . Copyright © 1946 by Duke University Press 1946 Books 127 Mr...

..., while his writings instructed German soldiers in the methods of the blitzkrieg; and Liddell Hart, though less truculent than Fuller, raised similar opposition. So here are new examples of the old truth that a teacher s personality is at least as important as his brains. NATIONAL MUSEUM OF CANADA R...

... are sorry that Mr. Werner did not include the North Carolina Museum of Art s famous pastel, Le Repos, which was one of the works exhibited in the great Armory Show of 1914 and formerly included in the development of one of the earliest collections of Degas to be formed in this country, the well-known...

... to participate in them, others were deported back to Russia, and still others remained in the West but shaped their politics in dialogue with the Russian revolutionaries. The political spaces created by the revolution, including the soviets, museums, and journals, and the literary, artistic, and political...

... of national parks and the management of museum displays. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Katrina Schlunke Home Natural Histories of Home...

...David A. Ellison This essay looks at three architectural responses to the task of memorializing the mass murder of European Jewry. Both Daniel Libeskind's Jewish Museum and Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe are tautly theorized and well-defended instances of contemporary...

... Columbia), working for Franz Boas, then curator at the Ameri­ can Museum of Natural History, purchased a whalers washing shrine from two Mowa­ chaht chiefs for five hundred dollars and ten secret society songs.1 Hunt wrote to Franz Boas in July 1904: It is the best thing that I have ever bought from...

...Carroll Van West; Mary S. Hoffschwelle Copyright © 1984 by Duke University Press 1984 "Slumbering On Its Old Foundations : Interpretation at Colonial Williamsburg Carroll Van West and Mary S. Hoffschwelle One of the most heralded museum openings of recent date was that of the refurnished...

... of commemorative museums for our modern presidents. The monumental character of presidential libraries and the unique standing of the thirty-seventh president have forced the Duke faculty to confront a more complex issue than the ac­ quisition of an archive. Should we at Duke volunteer a monument to the only...

.... That is, when colonial history is commodified as a national spectacle manu­ factured (in this case, staged and graphically represented), marketed, and managed for consumption someone or something is bound to profit. But who or what, exactly? In the context of Dublin s Kilmainham Gaol museum, other, more spe­...

... touched by the pernicious fluid is gone, though efforts have been made to restore it. The man who did the deed explained later that he wanted to call public attention to a scheme he had worked out, the adoption of which he was certain would bring about world peace. He had gone to the museum...

... Museum of the American Indian (NMAI), which was scheduled to open in early September 2004. The backstory on the NMAI’s formation is now the subject of hundreds of articles and books,1 and the inside...

..., and in illustration. The author, now the curator of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, was for many years curator of the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum. He was also associated with the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, was for a time curator of Decorative Arts of the Philadelphia Museum of Art...

...- Notes on Contributors  219 don, 2009; Burning Ice, Natural History Museum, London, 2006; Carbon 12, Paris, 2012; Carbon 13, Martha, Texas, 2013; and Carbon 14, Royal Ontario Museum, 2013–14. He has had solo exhibitions at the National Portrait Gal- lery, London, and in Melbourne, Australia. He...

... for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, where it is now prominently displayed. As I will show, this six-by-ten-foot mural constructs country music as a national rather than a regional folk art in order to assure the industry and the public of its grassroots origins and to ensure the Country...

... .” Critical Inquiry 30 : 225 – 48 . Massing Michael . 2019 . “ How the Superrich Took Over the Museum World .” New York Times , December 14 . MTL Collective Puar Jasbir K. . 2018 . “ Land of the Lost: MTL Collective talks with Jasbir K. Puar about Decolonization...

..., the appropriation for the increase of the library has been steadily raised to a normal approximating $100,000 a year. And yet with this apparently liberal appropri­ ation, we fall behind the budget of the British Museum with its £22,000 for the purchase of acquisitions. The fact is that neither in the minds...

...: Queen Anne and Chi'ppendale Periods. By Joseph Downs. New York: Macmillan, 1952. Pp. xl, 454. $17.50. This is a superb book in form, in text, and in illustration. The author, now the curator of the Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, was for many years curator of the American Wing...