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The Whole Picture - The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it (Paperback)
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The Whole Picture - The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it (Paperback)
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Loot Price R330
Discovery Miles 3 300
You Save R75 (19%)
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"Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective
story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such
forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to
view those institutions in the same way again. " Financial Times 'A
smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages
readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural
institutions and see the problematic colonial histories behind
them.' - Sumaya Kassim 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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