This document outlines the aims and core concepts of a critical history of Universal Expositions (EXPOs). It examines the origins of EXPOs and how their nature has changed over time, from displays of industrial and imperial power in the 19th century to expressions of national identity and globalization today. The document also discusses key EXPOs throughout history, potential positive and negative impacts of EXPOs, and challenges around evaluating their success. Humanities and social science disciplines are identified as useful for critically assessing EXPOs and their role in modern society.
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1) By 1949, there were an estimated 25 museums in China. By 2014, there were 4,500 museums - an increase of over 17,900%.
2) During the 1950s and 1960s, the Chinese government established many provincial and national museums. However, the Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976 caused the closure of thousands of museums and the destruction of artifacts.
3) Since the late 1970s, China's museum sector has expanded dramatically due to economic growth, private museums, and a government goal of having a museum for every 250,000 residents by 2020. However, quality remains uneven and opportunities exist for improving museum education.
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Assessing significance - an introduction to significance - Veronica Bullock of Significance International. Presented at the 2016 Community Heritage Grants Preservation and Collection Management Training Workshops.
This document outlines the aims and core concepts of a critical history of Universal Expositions (EXPOs). It examines the origins of EXPOs and how their nature has changed over time, from displays of industrial and imperial power in the 19th century to expressions of national identity and globalization today. The document also discusses key EXPOs throughout history, potential positive and negative impacts of EXPOs, and challenges around evaluating their success. Humanities and social science disciplines are identified as useful for critically assessing EXPOs and their role in modern society.
The Nature of Illumination: Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture.Martin Kalfatovic
The Nature of Illumination: Cultural Heritage and the Technology of Culture. Martin R. Kalfatovic.Cultural Heritage Information Management Forum. The Catholic University of America. Washington, DC. 5 June 2015
1) By 1949, there were an estimated 25 museums in China. By 2014, there were 4,500 museums - an increase of over 17,900%.
2) During the 1950s and 1960s, the Chinese government established many provincial and national museums. However, the Cultural Revolution from 1966-1976 caused the closure of thousands of museums and the destruction of artifacts.
3) Since the late 1970s, China's museum sector has expanded dramatically due to economic growth, private museums, and a government goal of having a museum for every 250,000 residents by 2020. However, quality remains uneven and opportunities exist for improving museum education.
The document provides an overview of library resources for decorative arts and design at George Mason University, including databases, catalogs, and services for finding books, articles, images, and other materials. It outlines research tools such as databases for art, design, fashion, and related fields as well as catalogs and services for obtaining physical materials. Contact information is provided for the art and art history librarian for assistance with using any of the described resources.
This document discusses examples of Mexico's cultural legacy that the author would include in a time capsule. Some examples mentioned are the ruins of the Templo Mayor, the Teotihuacan Pyramids, the Palacio de Correos architecture, the variety of nature in places like Xochimilco and Chihuahua's desert, the beautiful streets like Reforma and Polanco Neighborhood, cultural practices like the Voladores de Papantla and Alebrijes sculptures, traditions for Día de la Muerte and murals depicting Mexican history and icons like the Virgin of Guadalupe, and examples of Mexico's modernization through museums like the Soumaya.
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HUMAN EVOLUTION WHAT MAKES HUMANS HUMAN. OCT. 18 2012 9:09 AM
Lascaux’s Picassos
What prehistoric art tells us about the evolution of the human brain.
By Katy Waldman
Everyone answers the question “What makes humans
human?” in her own way, but if you were ever a liberal arts
student, you might have to resist the urge to roll your eyes and
reply, “The humanities.” Maybe you’d get more speci!c, quoting
the critic Haldane McFall: "That man who is without the arts is
little above the beasts of the !eld."
OK, so you’d be pretty pretentious, but would you be wrong?
Not really. Paleontologists tend to link the development of
modern human cognition to the rise of our ability to express
ourselves as artists and historians through cave painting,
sculptures, and other prehistoric art. Representing the world in
symbols may have heralded the beginnings of language.
Creating paint from charcoal, iron-rich ochre, crumbled animal
bones, and urine meant understanding how materials could
combine to form substances with new properties. Storing the paint—perhaps in an abalone shell that would be discovered 100,000 years later in a
cavern on the South African coast—required innovation and planning ahead.
Since at least the 1970s, the question of when we !rst acquired our humanness has been tangled up in discoveries about when we began making art.
Richard Klein at Stanford used carvings such as the 30,000-year-old Lion Man of Hohlenstein Stadel to substantiate his theory that a genetic mutation
caused a sudden mental "owering in our ancestors 40,000 years ago. (Homo sapiens have been around for 200,000 years, but apparently they spent
much of that time twiddling their opposable thumbs.) Yet in 1991, the excavation of 77,000-year-old beads and engraved shards of red ochre in South
Africa upended Klein’s hypothesis. It suggested that symbolic thinking had emerged much earlier than anyone had thought—maybe even at the same
time that our modern bodies evolved. The notion of a game-changing genetic mutation fell out of fashion as older and older artifacts were uncovered.
By 2012, Curtis Marean, a paleoanthropologist at Arizona State University, was voicing conventional wisdom when he told Smithsonian’s Erin Wayman:
“It always made sense that the origins of modern human behavior, the full assembly of modern uniqueness, had to occur at the origin point of the
lineage.”
It seems likely that our brains have been equipped for abstraction for as long as we have been human. But how does prehistoric art help us understand
this capacity—which today asserts itself everywhere from the walls of MoMA to the icons on our smartphones? The images in the Lascaux, Nerja, and
Chauvet caverns look far from hyperrealistic. One simple explanation holds that our ancestors didn’t have the time or skill to render horses and cattle
exactly as they appeared. Yet researchers in neuroaesthetics are beginning to wonder whether the abstraction in Paleolithic art actual.
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Tales of the ex-Apes
By Jonathan Marks
UNC-Charlotte
The GAD Distinguished Lecture, given
November 20, 2015, is based on a book
of the same title, recently published by
the University of California Press.
This will be an exploration of meaning
in human evolution without paleoanthro-
pology. I’m not talking about the foot of
Australopithecus sediba or the supraor-
bital torus of Homo erectus; I want to
talk about who we are and where we
came from. I am talking about origin
myths; I am talking about kinship. I am
not talking about human evolution; I’m
talking about how we talk about human
evolution.
Human evolution as bio-politics
Let me start off, then, with a sort of epi-
graph by Carleton Coon. Coon is not
remembered fondly today, because in the
early 1960s, as President of the Ameri-
can Association of Physical Anthropolo-
gists, he was secretly colluding with the
segregationists, giving them preprints of
his book which purported to demonstrate
that the reason that Africans were eco-
nomically and politically subjugated by
Europeans is that they hadn’t been mem-
bers of our species for very long, be-
cause whites had evolved into Homo
sapiens 200,000 years before blacks did.
And I’m happy to say that most of his
contemporaries smacked him down, and
in particular he got into a heated ex-
change with the great fruit fly geneticist
Theodosius Dobzhansky, who, I might
add, was a member of the American An-
(See Marks, page 2)
When the Mines Closed:
Heritage Building in North-
eastern Pennsylvania
By Paul A. Shackel and V. Camille
Westmont
University of Maryland
Introduction
Since 2009, the Anthracite Heritage Pro-
ject has focused on social issues in
Northeastern Pennsylvania (NEPA).
NEPA is a resource rich, economically
poor area located in the northernmost
reaches of the Appalachian Region.
While anthracite coal was discovered in
this region in the late eighteenth century,
large scale extraction of this carbon fos-
sil fuel did not occur until the middle of
the nineteenth century with the develop-
ment of railroads and canal systems. It is
the fuel that helped propel American
industry to become an international
leader in manufacturing. Our goal in this
project is to study the rise and fall of the
anthracite coal industry, and to address
inequities in the community, past and
present, related to work, labor, gender,
race, and immigration.
The NEPA communities, including
the city of Hazleton, the focus of our
study, developed in the mid-nineteenth
century with a massive influx of newly
arrived foreign immigrants who were
necessary for the extraction of coal. This
migration also created a ready workforce
with more available workers than jobs.
Surplus labor allowed the coal operators
to keep wages relatively low with the
threat that there were always willin.
This document provides an overview of a presentation on rethinking American history with a technological focus. It discusses key questions around what the history of technology can teach about American history and vice versa. It also discusses using internet technology to teach history. The document lists relevant textbook chapters and articles on topics like industrialization, transportation, urban growth, and political upheaval between 1800-1900 in the US. It provides sample syllabi and outlines technological developments and their social impacts during this period.
Last Gasp is a publisher and distributor of books, comics, and other media. They have been in business for over 40 years publishing independent and underground works. This catalog provides an overview of some of the books and items they have in stock, including contact information for ordering. Prices and availability are subject to change.
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The document provides an overview of early human art from the Paleolithic period, beginning around 77,000 BCE. Key points discussed include engraved ochre fragments found at Blombos Cave in South Africa dating to 77,000 BCE, which represent some of the earliest known examples of human artistic expression. Other early art discussed includes cave paintings from Lascaux, France around 15,000-13,000 BCE depicting animals such as bison and horses. The document examines debates around defining art and discusses how archaeological discoveries are continually updating our understanding of early human history and artistic practices.
This slideshow is enhanced content for "The Period of Significance is Now" an interview with Erin Carlson Mast, Morris J. Vogel and Lisa Lopez in the Summer 2014 Forum Journal ('Stepping into the
Future at Historic Sites'). Use this presentation with the accompanying worksheet (http://www.slideshare.net/PreservationNation/fjsummer2014pworksheet) To learn more about Preservation Leadership Forum and how you can become a member visit: http://www.preservationnation.org/forum
History Of Design Overview Of Movement And DesignersJanet Ellis
Design history involves understanding and evaluating the past from different perspectives rather than just presenting facts. The Industrial Revolution in the 18th-19th centuries influenced everyday life. In response, the Arts and Crafts Movement from 1880-1910 promoted traditional craftsmanship and using natural materials, led by William Morris. Art Nouveau in the late 19th century was influenced by Morris' emphasis on nature and craft. The Bauhaus school in Germany in the 1920s embraced industry while influenced by Arts and Crafts, promoting simplicity and absence of ornamentation.
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This document provides a summary of a talk on decolonising economics using collections from the BLDS digital archive. It discusses three main points:
1. Examples of postcolonial science from Somalia, including a large interdisciplinary project on camels that documented indigenous knowledge.
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The document discusses inventions from ancient Egypt. It notes that Egyptians made important contributions to paper/writing, timekeeping, and agriculture. They invented hieroglyphics around 3300-3200 BC, which were some of the earliest forms of writing. Hieroglyphics used about 700 symbols divided into phonograms representing sounds and ideograms representing ideas/objects. Egyptians also invented sundials for telling time and developed irrigation techniques using shaduf tools to water crops. Overall, the document outlines several key inventions from ancient Egypt that have shaped modern society.
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2. Moustaches?
• Steampunk is an inspired movement of creativity and
imagination. With a backdrop of either Victorian England
or America’s Wild West at hand, modern technologies
are re-imagined and realized as elaborate works of art,
fashion, and mechanics. If Jules Verne or H.G. Wells
were writing their science fiction today, it would be
considered “steampunk.” www.ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com
• Neil Stephenson’s The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's
Illustrated Primer (1995)
• Thomas Pynchon’s Against the Day (2006)
3. Something is happening here …
• Bookends Scenarios 2009:
– Local, organic, hand-made PLUS connected, tech-savvy,
Global
• Post-modern society – past, present, future all at once
– Hipster Aesthetic, Creative Anachronists, “Artisans”
• The Library as source, inspiration and enabler
My presentation will highlight many weird and wonderful things from our collection here at the State Library – the knowledge of which will help you help your customers. But first, the term steampunk? Have you noticed that moustaches are popular, both on men’s faces and in design? A certain style of moustache..
Wrapping paper, post it notes – kids are using them in craft. This is a manifestation of the steampunk aesthetic – defined here.
Neil Stephenson’s Diamond Age, depicts a future society rich in technology, with a subculture of people who choose to live as the Victorians did.
One review of ATD wrote that the decade either side of 1900 was characterised by enormous technological leaps fired by a mixed up combination of abstract mathematical speculation, global power struggles and sheer mysticism. Time travel and splitting the atom appeared equally plausible or implausible. Louis Menand.
So far we know only one is possible…
Observation – as technology progresses apace, there is still a need for authentic and tangible connections to the past. It is a counter-culture in some ways.
Our Bookends Scenarios project from 2009 which looked at alternative futures to 2030 for the public library network in NSW identified a possible scenario where people will want to connect locally with communal market gardens, craft guilds and men’s sheds, while at the same time embracing the cyber world.
Something is happening - apart from my 10 year daughter appreciating elaborate moustaches.
It’s representative of an emerging dichotomy in our society – two parallel streams coexisting.
You see the hipster with his vinyl records and craft beer, but he is also an app producer by day. He is a consumer of online media, but takes pleasure in owning an authentic 1890s moustache comb, and wants to make wax for it.
Otherwise normal working modern women, are creative anachronists on weekends, spending time making medieval costumes and armour, using methods as close to the original as possible.
As our society bounds ahead with mass production, convenient products and ICT, we also yearn for the one-off, hand-made or bespoke product.
Which leads me to this presentation – how can libraries tap into this yearning & help our community in these pursuits?
The State Library, and by extension public libraries, are extremely well placed to help.
Our collection here, especially that in the State Reference Library, is a staggeringly good resource for makers, restorers and anyone who is just interested in old stuff, how it looked, how it worked and how it was made.
This lovely poster shows that the State Library really promoted its technical collection – how to make and do stuff – advertisements from 1919. Happily we still have this collection…
Before I became a bureaucrat, I was a keen reference librarian here at the Library. I was often assigned reference requests to help library clients who wanted to make or repair old stuff. In those days, everything that the library had acquired prior to 1980 (more than 1 million items) was only available via the card catalogue, so people (particularly offsite clients) relied on us to find stuff for them.
I’ll draw on some of the obscure and interesting requests that I worked on, and the books and resources that were made available.
Happily today, due to our e-records project of the past few years, these items are accessible via our online catalogue, and yes, many are available free to NSW public libraries on ILL.
Note – Have you checked our computer catalogue?
Starting with steam – we have many many items – one example was a client restoring a steam engine.
How to make and operate a forge – the Blacksmith from Timbertown in Wauchope told me he used our collection when setting up the forge there.
How can I dry my own fruit? – two examples here from 1944 – timber frame wire and glass using the sun. The other using combo of sun and stove.
Barber techniques – mnoustache wax, Brilliantine, Pomades, lotion recipes from a 19c Paris barber
Plan for a horse drawn buggy – the Squatter’s Express
Buggy’s need suspension – here is the diameter of metal required per pound of buggy. Or the specific gravities of certain oceans and other liquids.
Useful in boat building – we have many plans for wooden boats and canoes
All of those items are from the printed book catalogue. However it pays to dig deeper into other arcane indexes… and finding aids, compiled by librarians of the past. These drawers have our Plays index and Motor car index
Occasionally doing a catalogue search for an arcane topic will pull up a record that says “Research Cards” or “Trade Catalogues”.
These are little known collections – but a great resource.
Pre-automation (by that I mean online catalogue), we had a research team here at the SL, who compiled a card index to books, chapters, articles etc on diverse topics, in response to information requests from the public.
I used the cards for some quite quirky requests, including:
Dome roofs, antennae, amplifiers
Trade Catalogues of boring machines held at the State Library of NSW.
Box title boring machines
Notes: Boring machinery -- catalogs
Of course this is a box of drilling machinery catalogues and specifications, and the trade catalogues collection is far from boring.
The Trade Catalogues include brochures, instruction manuals and catalogues of goods – eg washing machines, tractors, venetian blinds..
So far I have only touched on our printed collections and a range of catalogues and indexes. Of course there is a whole other series of collections of original or unpublished materials here at the Library. Pictures, manuscripts, maps and realia.
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