0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world

Buy Now

The Whole Picture - The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it (Paperback) Loot Price: R358
Discovery Miles 3 580
The Whole Picture - The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it (Paperback): Alice Procter

The Whole Picture - The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it (Paperback)

Alice Procter

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R358 Discovery Miles 3 580

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days

"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.

General

Imprint: Cassell
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: March 2021
First published: 2020
Authors: Alice Procter
Dimensions: 196 x 126 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - B-format
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-1-78840-245-3
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Forgery, falsification & theft of artworks
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > BC to 500 CE, Ancient & classical world
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > Art styles not limited by date > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Colonization & independence
Promotions
LSN: 1-78840-245-6
Barcode: 9781788402453

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture
Elise A Friedland, Melanie Grunow Sobocinski, … Hardcover R5,801 Discovery Miles 58 010
The Ruin of the Eternal City - Antiquity…
David Karmon Hardcover R2,906 Discovery Miles 29 060
Lament - Studies in the Ancient…
Ann Suter Hardcover R2,983 Discovery Miles 29 830
Minos and the Moderns - Cretan Myth in…
Theodore Ziolkowski Hardcover R2,271 Discovery Miles 22 710
Shifting Stones, Shaping the Past…
Catherine Becker Hardcover R4,085 Discovery Miles 40 850
Late Classical and Hellenistic Silver…
Eleni Zimi Hardcover R6,157 Discovery Miles 61 570
Italy's Lost Greece - Magna Graecia and…
Giovanna Ceserani Hardcover R3,252 Discovery Miles 32 520
The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii…
Penelope M. Allison Hardcover R12,050 Discovery Miles 120 500
Memory Of Empires
Georges Bernanos Hardcover R1,540 Discovery Miles 15 400
Persian Art
Vladimir Lukonin, Anatoli Ivanov Hardcover R1,182 Discovery Miles 11 820
Persian Art
Vladimir Lukonin, Anatoli Ivanov Hardcover R545 Discovery Miles 5 450
Rambles and Studies in Greece
John Pentland Mahaffy Paperback R601 Discovery Miles 6 010

See more

Partners