The whole picture : the colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it / Alice Procter.
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 th...
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Language: | English |
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London :
Cassell, an imprint of Octopus Publishing Group Ltd,
2020.
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Physical Description: | 304 pages ; 16 pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm |
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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 |
Format: | Book |
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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. |
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Call Number: | N8850 .P76 2020 |
Bibliography Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 286-295) and index. |
ISBN: | 1788401573 9781788401579 9781788401555 1788401557 |