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Book Synopsis The British Museum; Its Antiquities and Natural History. A Hand-book Guide for Visitors. [A Catalogue of the Antiquities Only.] By H. G. Clarke by : British Museum
Download or read book The British Museum; Its Antiquities and Natural History. A Hand-book Guide for Visitors. [A Catalogue of the Antiquities Only.] By H. G. Clarke written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1847 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The British Museum by : David Mackenzie Wilson
Download or read book The British Museum written by David Mackenzie Wilson and published by Peoples of the Past. This book was released on 2002 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British Museum is the oldest publicly funded museum in the world. This volume tells the story of the collections, the buildings that house them, and the people who have administered and curated them since its foundation in 1753.
Book Synopsis The British Museum: Its Antiquities and Natural History, a Hand-book Guide for Visitors. By Henry G. Clarke by : British Museum
Download or read book The British Museum: Its Antiquities and Natural History, a Hand-book Guide for Visitors. By Henry G. Clarke written by British Museum and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Parthenon Sculptures by : Ian Dennis Jenkins
Download or read book The Parthenon Sculptures written by Ian Dennis Jenkins and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photographs focus on the pediment sculptures that filled the triangular gables at each end of the temple; the metopes that crowned the architrave surmounting the outer columns; and the frieze that ran around the four sides of the building, inside the colonnade. Comparative images, showing the sculptures in full and fine detail, bring out particular features of design and help to contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book further reflects on how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. In particular, Jenkins expands on the irony of our intimate knowledge and appreciation of the sculptures--a relationship far more intense than that experienced by their ancient, intended spectators--as they have been transformed from architectural ornaments into objects of art.
Download or read book The Brutish Museums written by Dan Hicks and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.
Book Synopsis Keeping Their Marbles by : Tiffany Jenkins
Download or read book Keeping Their Marbles written by Tiffany Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. However, in the opinion of most people, many of these items are looted property and should be returned immediately. In 'Keeping Their Marbles', Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of how the West came to acquire these treasures. Originally published: 2016.
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Download or read book Eternal Egypt written by Edna R. Russmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is published in conjunction with a traveling exhibition organized by the American Federation of Arts and The British Museum and drawn exclusively from the collection of The British Museum, which is among the finest in the world. Illustrated with images of the works in the exhibition, as well as comparative materials, Eternal Egypt is that rare book of interest and value to the general and scholarly audience alike."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Collecting the World by : James Delbourgo
Download or read book Collecting the World written by James Delbourgo and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2019-03-18 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize A Times Book of the Week When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first free national public museum in the world. Collecting the World tells the story of the eccentric collector whose thirst for universal knowledge brought it into being. A man of insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging interests, Hans Sloane assembled a collection of antiquities, oddities, and artifacts from around the British Empire to form the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time. With few curbs on his passion, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects from China, India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Wampum beads, rare manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin: nothing was off limits. The first biography of Sloane based on his complete writings, Collecting the World portrays one of the Enlightenment's most original luminaries. "A magnificent scholarly coup and an enthralling read... It conveys the excitement of original research as well as the thrill of tracking exotic curiosities to their source." --Sunday Times "Delbourgo's engrossing new biography situates Sloane within the welter of intellectual and political crosscurrents that marked his times." --New York Times Book Review "A superb biography--humane, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself." --Times Literary Supplement "A superb book, enjoyably written, beautifully illustrated, and based on deep knowledge of the sources." --The Telegraph
Book Synopsis Joseph Banks and the British Museum by : Neil Chambers
Download or read book Joseph Banks and the British Museum written by Neil Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concentrating on the explorer and naturalist Joseph Banks (1743-1820), this book explores the early history of collections at the British Museum. Taking Banks' extraordinary career as its basis, it examines the changes that took place during a period of transition that led to collecting on an increasingly global scale.
Book Synopsis Wondrous Curiosities by : Stephanie Moser
Download or read book Wondrous Curiosities written by Stephanie Moser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on her exloration of the British Museum's world-famous collection of Egyptian antiquities, this pioneering study reveals the powerful role of museums in shaping our understanding of science, culture, and history.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ... by : British Museum (Natural History). Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Drawings in the British Museum (Natural History) ... written by British Museum (Natural History). Library and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art by : National Art Library (Great Britain)
Download or read book First Proofs of the Universal Catalogue of Books on Art written by National Art Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Museums, Their History and Their Use by : David Murray
Download or read book Museums, Their History and Their Use written by David Murray and published by Glasgow, J. MacLehose and sons. This book was released on 1904 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books by :
Download or read book British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Who Owns History? by : Geoffrey Robertson
Download or read book Who Owns History? written by Geoffrey Robertson and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest question in the world of art and culture concerns the return of property taken without consent. Throughout history, conquerors or colonial masters have taken artefacts from subjugated peoples, who now want them returned from museums and private collections in Europe and the USA. The controversy rages on over the Elgin Marbles, and has been given immediacy by figures such as France's President Macron, who says he will order French museums to return hundreds of artworks acquired by force or fraud in Africa, and by British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has pledged that a Labour government would return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Elsewhere, there is a debate in Belgium about whether the Africa Museum, newly opened with 120,000 items acquired mainly by armed forces in the Congo, should close. Although there is an international convention dated 1970 that deals with the restoration of artefacts stolen since that time, there is no agreement on the rules of law or ethics which should govern the fate of objects forcefully or lawlessly acquired in previous centuries. Who Owns History? delves into the crucial debate over the Elgin Marbles, but also offers a system for the return of cultural property based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts. It is not a legal text, but rather an examination of how the past can be experienced by everyone, as well as by the people of the country of origin.
Book Synopsis Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: L to Z by : National Art Library (Great Britain)
Download or read book Universal Catalogue of Books on Art: L to Z written by National Art Library (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 1140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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