Speaker Profiles

Richard Wendorf

Richard Wendorf

director, Boston Athenaeum
Vanderwarker's Pantheon
Peter Vanderwarker
March 24, 2009
00:49:51
Peter Vanderwarker discusses his exhibition of photographs of iconic Boston buildings and portraits of people who currently shape the city's intellectual, architectural, and environmental culture.
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Richard Wendorf: The Literature of Collecting
Richard Wendorf
December 2, 2008
01:00:02
Richard Wendorf discusses his investigation of the relationship between the theoretical texts devoted to collecting, and the rich, fictional texts that also take collecting as their focus.
America's Membership Libraries: Then and Now
Richard Wendorf
March 4, 2008
01:04:25
Richard Wendorf tracks the evolution of a particular kind of American library during the past three centuries.
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Shooting My First Library: An Illustrated Talk
Thomas Kellner
February 14, 2008
01:09:21
Thomas Kellner discusses his Boston Athenaeum series of photographs with Richard Wendorf. In July of 2006 the German fine art photographer Thomas Kellner spent two weeks at the Boston Athenaeum as bicentennial artist-in-residence.
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Acquired Tastes: The Boston Athenaeum, 1807 - 2007
Richard Wendorf
March 8, 2007
01:10:55
In celebration of the Boston Athenaeum's bicentennial, Richard Wendorf presents an illustrated lecture drawing upon many objects that form part of the bicentennial exhibition.
Ownership of Cultural Property
Bernard Margolis
January 18, 2007
00:56:43
This series examines a number of issues that have long confronted the library world, and which hold implications for libraries for the future.
Image of After Sir Joshua: Essays on British Art and Cultural History (Studies in British Art) (v. 15)
Author: Richard Wendorf
Publisher: Paul Mellon Centre BA (2005)
Binding: Hardcover, 180 pages
Image of Sir Joshua Reynolds: The Painter in Society (Essays in Art and Culture)
Author: Richard Wendorf
Publisher: Harvard University Press (1998)
Binding: Paperback, 264 pages
Image of William Collins and Eighteenth-Century English Poetry (Minnesota Archive Editions)
Author: Richard Wendorf
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press (1981)
Binding: Paperback, 229 pages
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