Screen LibraryKeeping their marbles : how the treasures of the past ended up in museums ... and why they should stay there /
For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and the Metropolitan in New York -- to name but a few -- can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. But...
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: |
For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, and the Metropolitan in New York -- to name but a few -- can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. But all this came at a huge cost. From the Napoleonic campaigns that filled the Louvre with Egyptian artifacts, to the plunder that accompanied British imperialism across the globe, the amazing collections in the West's great museums were wrenched from their original context by means that often amount |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (page 353) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780199657599 0199657599 |
| Index Number: | AM135 |
| CLC: | G26-05 |
| Call Number: | G26-05/J529 |
| Contents: | Great explorers and curious collectors -- The birth of the public museum -- Antiquity fever -- Cases of loot -- Museum wars -- Who owns culture? -- The rise of identity museums -- Atonement : making amends for past wrongs -- Burying knowledge : the fate of human remains -- Concluding thoughts. |