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Procter, Alice (Art historian)
Subjects
Art museums -- Exhibitions -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Museum exhibits.
Cultural property -- Repatriation.
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Repatriation.
Art, Colonial.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Great Britain -- Colonies.
Great Britain -- Cultural policy.
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Procter, Alice (Art historian)
Art museums -- Exhibitions -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Museum exhibits.
Cultural property -- Repatriation.
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Repatriation.
Art, Colonial.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Great Britain -- Colonies.
Great Britain -- Cultural policy.
MARC Display
The
whole
picture
: the
colonial
story
of the
art
in
our
museums
&
why
we
need
to
talk
about
it / Alice Procter.
by
Procter, Alice (
Art
historian)
Cassell, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, 2020.
Call #:
306.470941 P964w
Subjects
Art
museums
-- Exhibitions -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Museum exhibits.
Cultural property -- Repatriation.
Human remains (Archaeology) -- Repatriation.
Art
,
Colonial
.
Postcolonialism and the arts.
Great Britain -- Colonies.
Great Britain -- Cultural policy.
ISBN:
9781788401555 (hc)
Alternate title:
Colonial
story
of the
art
in
our
museums
&
why
we
need
to
talk
about
it.
Colonial
story
of the
art
in
our
museums
and
why
we
need
to
talk
about
it
Description:
304 p. ; xvi numbered p. of plates : color ill., color portraits ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 286-295) and index.
Contents:
Part I. The palace -- 1. Vases & attitudes -- 2. The sarcophagus -- 3. Pitt's diamond -- 4. An offering -- 5. Forged relics -- Part II. The classroom -- 6. The kangaroo & the dingo -- 7. Mai -- 8. The tiger of Mysore -- 9. Abolitionists -- 10. England's greatness -- 11. The shield -- Part III. The memorial -- 12. A Haida carving -- 13. Mokomokai -- 14. Mining the museum -- 15. Human zoos -- 16. The coffin -- Part IV. The playground -- 17. Museum highlights -- 18. Crowd control -- 19. The ship -- 20. Sugar baby -- 21. Change the date -- 22. Return -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography --
Picture
credits -- Index -- Acknowledgements.
Summary:
"Should
museums
be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize'
our
galleries? Must Rhodes fall? How to deal with the
colonial
history of
art
in
museums
and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that
we
are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable
Art
Tours, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew
about
art
history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. The book is divided into four chronological sections, named after four different kinds of
art
space : The Palace, The Classroom, The Memorial and The Playground. Each section tackles the fascinating, enlightening and often shocking stories of a selection of
art
pieces, including the propaganda painting the East India Company used to justify its rule in India ; the tattooed Maori skulls collected as '
art
objects' by Europeans ; and works by contemporary artists who are taking on
colonial
history in their work and activism today. The
Whole
Picture
is a much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives
about
art
, and rethink and disrupt the way
we
interact with the
museums
and galleries that display it."--Publisher.
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Adult Nonfiction
306.470941 P964w
Core Collection - Adult
Checked out
Aug 15, 2024
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