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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"American Museum of Natural History"”.
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Robber Barons and Humbuggers: The Rise of Philanthropic Museums in Nineteenth-Century New York
<p>New York City's most recognizable museums like the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century thanks to the support of wealthy benefactors. At the same time, social reformers, mostly Protestant and middle …
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Fit to Live, a flexible form concerto for wind ensemble
… for trumpet and wind ensemble. It consists of several fixed sections, or modules, that can be put together in several specific pre-determined ways to create various versions of the piece depending on a soloist or ensemble's desires or logistical needs. The inspiration for the piece comes …
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Native American Chic: The Marketing Of Native Americans In New York Between The World Wars
… René d'Harnoncourt - this dissertation analyzes museum and gallery exhibitions of Native American art mounted in the United States, particularly New York City, during the interwar period, and documents the immediate and lasting impact these shows and their promotion had on the emergence of …
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Critical habitat: Picturing extinction, conservation, and the American animal in the long twentieth century
… Picturing Extinction, Conservation, and the American Animal in the Long Twentieth Century, looks at images of at one time endangered or threatened animals in order to develop what I have named a specifically American conservation aesthetic. Within a conservation aesthetic images are almost …
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Raphael Montañez Ortiz and Alternative Art Spaces, 1966–1971: From Repulsion to Exaltation
… performances, and events that were part of a sustained investigation into how embodied destructive and uncomfortable actions could physically confront rationality and objectivity. His works attend to how rationality and objectivity were valued in the United States as a consequence of …
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Strict Fidelity to Nature: Scientific Taxidermy, U.S. Natural History Museums, and Craft Consensus, 1880s to 1930s
As taxidermy increased in prominence in American natural history museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of trying to replicate nature through mounts and displays became increasingly central. Crude practices of overstuffing skins gave way to a focus on the artistic …
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When You See It: Intersections of Formal and Informal Science Learning
<p>In this dissertation, I examine the role of out-of-school learning environments in the development of new science teachers. The context for the research is the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program, specifically; the first two-year post-graduation new …
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Oviraptorosauria: Morphology, Phylogeny, and Endocranial Evolution
Oviraptorosauria, an extinct lineage of coelurosaurian dinosaurs from the Cretaceous of Asia and North America, includes some of the most morphologically distinctive theropod taxa yet known. Their bizarre appearance and numerous skeletal similarities with extant birds instantly made oviraptorosaurs …