65–66, Building the British Museum, Marjorie Caygill & Christopher Date 1999, Norman Foster and the British Museum, Norman Foster, Deyan Sudjic & Spencer de Grey 2001, Reported in the list of Sloane's collection given to his executors in 1753. The Weston Gallery of Roman Britain, opened in 1997, displayed a number of recently discovered hoards which demonstrated the richness of what had been considered an unimportant part of the Roman Empire. The construction commenced around the courtyard with the East Wing (The King's Library) in 1823–1828, followed by the North Wing in 1833–1838, which originally housed among other galleries a reading room, now the Wellcome Gallery. The latter benefited from the purchase in 1905 of the Sarawak collection put together by Dr Charles Hose, as well as from other colonial officers such as Edward A Jeffreys. The Ancient Near Eastern collection also had its beginnings in 1825 with the purchase of Assyrian and Babylonian antiquities from the widow of Claudius James Rich. Many changes followed: the first full-time in-house designer and publications officer were appointed in 1964, the Friends organisation was set up in 1968, an Education Service established in 1970 and publishing house in 1973. I started reading about cinema in the late 1960s, the heyday of auteurism: the books that I read then formed my taste and have marked me as a certain kind of cinephile and, 40 years on, after the great adventure (or misadventure) of theory, that is still how I would define myself. A collection of immense importance for its range and quality, it includes objects of all periods from virtually every site of importance in Egypt and the Sudan. Cahiers du cinéma published a French version in 1998; we English readers are still waiting. Phoenician antiquities come from across the region, but the Tharros collection from Sardinia and the large number of Phoenician stelae from Carthage and Maghrawa are outstanding. Of Bollywood and Nollywood and Latin American cinema I know a bit, but not as much as I ought. Mondo Macabro: Weird & Wonderful Cinema around the WorldPete Tombs, St. Martin’s Griffin, 1998. The British Museum houses one of the world's most comprehensive collections of Ethnographic material from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, representing the cultures of indigenous peoples throughout the world. The Reading Room closed in 1997 when the national library (the British Library) moved to a new building at St Pancras. The Reading Room is open to any member of the public who wishes to read there. The shorter English version of this seminal collection of criticism and interviews may be only 292 pages, but Tom Milne’s translation and commentary are exemplary, and there’s no other volume of criticism from Cahiers du cinéma that has influenced me as deeply. Geoff Dyer once wrote: “Spare me the drudgery of systematic examinations and give me the lightning flashes of those wild books in which there is no attempt to cover the ground thoroughly or reasonably.” Bresson’s slender collection of jottings and aphorisms (“The ejaculatory force of the eye”; “The terrible habit of theatre”; “Don’t run after poetry: it penetrates unaided through the joins”) is a witty example of the virtues of brevity. Circles of ConfusionHollis Frampton, Visual Studies Workshop, 1983. The first edition was published in 1986 and changed the way I thought about film acting and stardom. And those ‘witnessed years’, as he calls them, are the fulcrum of the book. Over the years this little volume must surely have been the Bible for many of us. This is Orson WellesOrson Welles and Peter Bogdanovich, edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum, HarperPerennial, 1992. His large library of manuscripts and printed books had particular strengths in English literature, especially Shakespeare, illuminated Books of Hours and French romances. In 1857, Charles Newton was to discover the 4th-century BC Mausoleum of Halikarnassos, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. L’ImaginaireJean-Paul Sartre (mistranslated as The Psychology of the Imagination), Gallimard, 1940. This is the book that taught me about film language – not just the nuts and bolts of how it works, but the aesthetics. As a postgrad studying aesthetics, I was enthralled to find an English-language philosopher who understood cinema! Plus two: it is also an achingly serious discussion about why movies can be so potent, about the way they shape our fantasy lives and so our real lives, about how it really does matter whether or not you can love Withnail & I. Through his sophisticated apologia for melodrama, a despised genre was propelled into the academic spotlight where it has remained ever since. The museum is a non-departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, and as with all national museums in the UK it charges no admission fee, except for loan exhibitions.[6]. And for the undeceived appreciation of Sam Fuller. Important collections include Latvian, Norwegian, Gotlandic and Merovingian material from Johann Karl Bähr, Alfred Heneage Cocks, Sir James Curle and Philippe Delamain respectively. Lucid, rigorous and utterly readable. The Phantom Empire Geoffrey O’BrienDurgnat on Film Raymond DurgnatScience Fiction Movies Philip StrickThe Hollywood Hallucination Parker TylerNegative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies Manny FarberThe Shadow of an Airplane Climbs the Empire State Building Parker TylerFilm as a Subversive Art Amos VogelDictionary of Films Georges SadoulCinema: A Critical Dictionary Edited By Richard RoudOn the History of Film Style David BordwellCity of Nets Otto FriedrichVisionary Film P. Adams SitneyHitchcock François TruffautWho the Devil Made It Peter BogdanovichSigns and Meaning in the Cinema Peter Wollen, The Genius of the System: Hollywood Filmmaking in the Studio EraThomas Schatz, Pantheon Books, 1988, I Lost It At the MoviesPauline Kael, Little, Brown, 1965, Final CutSteven Bach, William Morrow, 1985, Indecent ExposureDavid McClintick, William Morrow, 1982, Signs and Meaning in the CinemaPeter Wollen. And wasn’t the 1970s the period of cinema she loved best? Iampolski, a pre-eminent contemporary Russian theorist, gives a dazzling demonstration of how, when, where and why films quote other films (and other media) and why we should care. For almost 150 years researchers came here to consult the museum's vast library. Ealing Studios Charles Barr, 1977. A thrilling confection of passionate advocacy, youthful extremism, ardent love and lofty disdain. All the while, the collections kept growing. Campanalogia Improved (J.D and C.M. In the second half of the twentieth century, the museum greatly benefited from the bequest of the philanthropist PT Brooke Sewell, which allowed the department to purchase many objects and fill in gaps in the collection.[83][84][85]. Its expansion over the following 250 years was largely a result of expanding British colonisation and has resulted in the creation of several branch institutions, the first being the Natural History Museum in 1881. Art and Politics Now Survey of politically themed art . It leaves no room to mention Ray Durgnat’s crucial book, A Mirror for England, that staked a claim for British cinema when few film enthusiasts in Britain cared; or Rachael Low’s pioneering seven-volume history of British cinema from the very beginning to, alas, only 1939, although Low is a treasure trove of discoveries still being made. Other groups of artifacts represented in the department include the national collection of (c.100) icon paintings, most of which originate from the Byzantine Empire and Russia, and over 40 mediaeval astrolabes from across Europe and the Middle East. Like most people in the unique position of foreknowledge of what others have said, I have avoided the choices that now seem obvious in this survey. Should I opt for something from my collection written by Geoffrey O’Brien? The number of Phoenician inscriptions from sites across Cyprus is also considerable, and include artefacts found at the Kition necropolis (with the two Kition Tariffs having the longest Phoenician inscription discovered on the island), the Idalion temple site and two bilingual pedestals found at Tamassos. Campanalogia Improved (J.D and C.M. Or to the point but about very vague subjects: “Time”. Between 1878 and 1882 Rassam greatly improved the museum's holdings with exquisite objects including the Cyrus Cylinder from Babylon, the bronze gates from Balawat, important objects from Sippar, and a fine collection of Urartian bronzes from Toprakkale including a copper figurine of a winged, human-headed bull. In 2004, the ethnographic collections from Asia were transferred to the department. The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens is a collections-based educational and research institution established by Henry E. Huntington and located in San Marino, California The roof is a glass and steel construction, built by an Austrian steelwork company,[58] with 1,656 uniquely shaped panes of glass. ft). In 1918, because of the threat of wartime bombing, some objects were evacuated via the London Post Office Railway to Holborn, the National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) and a country house near Malvern. Louise Brooks was one of the few actresses with absolute integrity. [64], The British Museum houses the world's largest[h] and most comprehensive collection of Egyptian antiquities (with over 100,000[65] pieces) outside the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. George III, who reigned from 1760 to 1820, is remembered today for his loss both of the American Colonies and his own sanity. [69] These were donated by Professor Fred Wendorf of Southern Methodist University in Texas, and comprise the entire collection of artefacts and environmental remains from his excavations at Prehistoric sites in the Sahara Desert between 1963 and 1997. [f] However, in August 1939, due to the imminence of war and the likelihood of air-raids, the Parthenon Sculptures, along with the museum's most valued collections, were dispersed to secure basements, country houses, Aldwych Underground station, the National Library of Wales and a quarry. The collections of ancient jewellery and bronzes, Greek vases (many from graves in southern Italy that were once part of Sir William Hamilton's and Chevalier Durand's collections), Roman glass including the famous Cameo glass Portland Vase, Roman gold glass (the second largest collection after the Vatican Museums), Roman mosaics from Carthage and Utica in North Africa that were excavated by Nathan Davis, and silver hoards from Roman Gaul (some of which were bequeathed by the philanthropist and museum trustee Richard Payne Knight), are particularly important. Along with Bazin’s unfinished Jean Renoir this is one of the best monographs I know on any director. Provocative, opinionated and a little crazy. My list is therefore devised partly to champion books neglected by everyone else. The Elgin Marbles. The book that almost single-handedly revived serious interest in the long-reviled world of silent film. Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny FarberManny Farber, Library of America, 2009, King Vidor, AmericanRaymond Durgnat and Scott Simmon, University of California Press, 1988, Pursuits of Happiness: The Hollywood Comedy of RemarriageStanley Cavell, Harvard University Press, 1981. It also created the opportunity to redevelop the vacant space in Robert Smirke's 19th-century central quadrangle into the Queen Elizabeth II Great Court – the largest covered square in Europe – which opened in 2000. A masterpiece of stills photography that captures the world behind the movie camera, culminating in her extraordinary on-set pics of Marilyn and The Misfits. Ingmar BergmanJacques Aumont, Cahiers du cinéma, 2003. Substantially revised in 2007 and made available for free download, this is exemplary film criticism, a book Ford would have delighted in deriding yet kept close by his bed, I’m sure. The great American novelist turned his attention to a Hollywood he knew well for this collection of short stories about a washed-up screenwriter, which retain their relevance and punch to this day. [100][106] Nevertheless, it has returned items such as Tasmanian Aboriginal burial remains when this was consistent with legislation regarding the disposal of items in the collections. (Wilson, David, M. (2002). The large collection of some 1800 Japanese prints and paintings owned by Arthur Morrison was acquired in the early twentieth century. The only example of a great film era (the 1970s) meeting a worthy, attentive journalist. This depressed the hell out of me, but it’s a great read. A beautiful, idiosyncratic articulation of the job of the film director. Prehistoric Greece and Italy (3300 BC – 8th century BC), Etruscan (8th century BC – 1st century BC), Ancient Greece (8th century BC – 4th century AD), Ancient Rome (1st century BC – 4th century AD). Frampton wasn’t just the high priest of ‘structural cinema’, with his cerebral but playful masterpieces, Zorns Lemma and (nostalgia), but a superb essayist on classic photography and on the ontology of film as “the last machine”. This department was founded in 1920. From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German FilmSiegfried Kracauer. Histoire économique du cinémaPierre Bachlin, La Nouvelle Edition, 1947. 1702) Campanalogia Improved (5th Edition 1766) Clavis Campanalogia or A Key to the Art of Ringing (1788) The department also includes the national collection of horology with one of the most wide-ranging assemblage of clocks, watches and other timepieces in Europe, with masterpieces from every period in the development of time-keeping. Reliefs and sculptures from the site of Persepolis were donated by Sir Gore Ouseley in 1825 and the 5th Earl of Aberdeen in 1861 and the museum received part of a pot-hoard of jewellery from Pasargadae as the division of finds in 1963 and part of the Ziwiye hoard in 1971. An enthralling account of a man enraptured by cinema, written by another man enraptured by cinema. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. Explore Archives & Manuscripts. Prehistoric objects from the region include a bird-shaped pestle and a group of stone mortars from Papua New Guinea. The Dictionary is not only an indispensable book about cinema, but one of the most absurdly ambitious literary achievements of our time. The museum's various libraries hold in excess of 350,000 books, journals and pamphlets covering all areas of the museum's collection.
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