The whole picture : the colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it / Alice Procter.

  • Procter, Alice (Art historian)
Date:
2020
  • Books

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Description

"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."--Back cover.

Publication/Creation

London : Cassell, 2020.

Physical description

304 pages, xvi pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.

Contents

Part I. The palace : 1. Vases & attitudes -- 2. The sarcophagus -- 3. Pitt's diamond -- 4. An offering -- 5. Forged relics -- Part II. The classroom : 6. The kangaroo & the dingo -- 7. Mai -- 8. The tiger of Mysore -- 9. Abolitionists -- 10. England's greatness -- 11. The shield -- Part III. The memorial : 12. A Haida carving -- 13. Mokomokai -- 14. Mining the museum -- 15. Human zoos -- 16. The coffin -- Part IV. The playground : 17. Museum highlights -- 18. Crowd control -- 19. The ship -- 20. Sugar baby -- 21. Change the date -- 22. Return -- Conclusion -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Picture credits -- Index -- Acknowledgements.

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    History of Medicine
    YW.AN
    Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9781788401555
  • 1788401557