Keeping Their Marbles
How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums - And Why They Should Stay There
(Sprache: Englisch)
The story of how the museums of the West acquired the treasures of antiquity, from the Benin Bronzes to the Bust of Nefertiti - and why they should not be returned to the lands from which they came.
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The story of how the museums of the West acquired the treasures of antiquity, from the Benin Bronzes to the Bust of Nefertiti - and why they should not be returned to the lands from which they came.
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The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft.Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects and Aboriginal human remains.
In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for return. Contrary to the arguments of campaigners, she shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history.
Instead, this ground-breaking book makes the case for museums as centres of knowledge, demonstrating that no object has a single home and no one culture owns culture.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Keeping Their Marbles “
INTRODUCTION; PART ONE; 1 GREAT EXPLORERS AND CURIOUS COLLECTORS; 2 THE BIRTH OF THE PUBLIC MUSEUM; 3 ANTIQUITY FEVER; 4 CASES OF LOOT; PART TWO; 5 MUSEUM WARS; 6 WHO OWNS CULTURE?; 7 THE RISE OF IDENTITY MUSEUMS; 8 ATONEMENT: MAKING AMENDS FOR PAST WRONGS; 9 BURYING KNOWLEDGE: THE FATE OF HUMAN REMAINS; CONCLUDING THOUGHTS; NOTES; INDEX
Autoren-Porträt von Tiffany Jenkins
Tiffany Jenkins is an author, academic, broadcaster and columnist who for four years wrote a weekly column on social and cultural issues in the Scotsman. Her writing credits include BBC Culture, Apollo, the Independent, the Art Newspaper, the Guardian and Spectator. She has consulted widely in academia and museums on cultural policy, most recently advising scholars and practitioners at the University of Oslo, theNorwegian Theatres and Orchestras, and the National Touring Network for Performing Arts. As part of this, she contributed a comparative study of cultural education in England and Norway. She was previously the director of the Arts and Society Programme at the Institute of Ideas and has been a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, Departmentof Law. Her first degree is in art history, her PhD in sociology. She divides her time between London and Edinburgh.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Tiffany Jenkins
- 2016, 384 Seiten, 17 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 24,2 x 16,4 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199657599
- ISBN-13: 9780199657599
- Erscheinungsdatum: 25.02.2016
Sprache:
Englisch
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