Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (705 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0691154430 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 232 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-08-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Defending the principles of art as the legacy of all humankind and museums as instruments of inquiry and tolerance, Whose Culture? brings reasoned argument to an issue that for too long has been distorted by politics and emotionalism. Watt.. In Whose Culture?, leading figures from universities and museums in the United States and Britain argue that modern nation-states have at best a dubious connection with the ancient cultures they claim to represent, and that archaeology has been misused by nationalistic identity politics. In addition to the editor, the contributors are Kwame Anthony Appiah, Sir John Boa
His books include Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage (Princeton). James Cuno is president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and former director of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The other side, insisting that art remain where it happened to be found, deploys the rhetoric of jealous nationalism in the service of government. "In this new collection of essays, Cuno has also assembled a group of broadly like-minded colleagues, both museum curators and academics, all of whom affirm, from a variety of perspectives, why great encyclopaedic collections can, and ought, to exist. At last they're re-asserting their principles, after an embarrassing period of passivity and pusillanimity."--Robert Fulford, The National Post"For the ge
K. Opoku said THE "UNIVERSAL MUSEUM" OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL.. THE "UNIVERSAL MUSEUM" OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL., May 1, "THE "UNIVERSAL MUSEUM" OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL." according to K. Opoku. THE "UNIVERSAL MUSEUM" OF THE RICH AND POWERFUL., May 1, 2009Cuno ends his introduction to Whose Culrure? with a statement which many of us could easily subscribe to in so far as it appears to be a call for dialogue: "This book will not be the final word in the debate over antiquities. But we hope it will add a new angle to the frame within which the discussion henceforth takes place. Nothing is more important to the fate of the preservation and greater understanding of our world's common ancient past and antique legacy than we resolve the differences that divide the var. 009Cuno ends his introduction to Whose Culrure? with a statement which many of us could easily subscribe to in so far as it appears to be a call for dialogue: "This book will not be the final word in the debate over antiquities. But we hope it will add a new angle to the frame within which the discussion henceforth takes place. Nothing is more important to the fate of the preservation and greater understanding of our world's common ancient past and antique legacy than we resolve the differences that divide the var