David Walsh (4) (1961–)
Autor de A Bone of Fact
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Sobre El Autor
David Walsh, Ph.D., is the founder and president of the National Institute on Media and the Family. This is a non-profit organization created to provide research and information about the impact of media products. He is a psychologist, educator, and parent, and is a frequent guest on radio and mostrar más television programs as an expert on children and the media. He has also written several books and articles on the subject. He won an ABIA Award 2015 in the category of Biography of the Year with his title A Bone of Fact. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Obras de David Walsh
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Nombre legal
- Walsh, David Dominic
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1961
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Australia
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
- Lugares de residencia
- Glenorchy, Tasmania, Australia
- Ocupaciones
- art collector
museum director
professional gambler
author - Organizaciones
- Museum of Old and New (Founder); Berriedale penisula, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
Moorilla Winery (owner); Berriedale penisula, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia - Premios y honores
- Order of Australia (Officer)
Miembros
Reseñas
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- Miembros
- 89
- Popularidad
- #207,492
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 95
- Idiomas
- 4
It's gorgeous, and maintains the irreverent feel of the museum itself. Essays on the history of a set of ancient coins are commingled with extracts of emailed conversations between museum staff and owner David Walsh, transcripts of interviews with artists, and the lyrics to songs written about individual pieces (which together form an album by which was commissioned for the launch and which is included (on CD) in the back of the catalogue).
An example; There several pages of full-colour plates showing scans of one of the sarcophagi (and the mummy contained within) which form part of the museum's collection. These are preceded by an anecdote explaining that the radiology department of the local hospital agreed to perform the scans in recompense after a group of their students got a bit too merry at a party held on the Moorilla grounds, and trashed part of the garden in a golf cart.
MONA is an incredible experience, and this exhibition catalogue does a great job of capturing the flavour of the place.… (más)