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Book Synopsis The Destiny of the Parthenon Marbles by : Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage
Download or read book The Destiny of the Parthenon Marbles written by Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Destiny of the Parthenon Marbles by : Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, The
Download or read book The Destiny of the Parthenon Marbles written by Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, The and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proceedings from a seminar sponsored by the Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage. Held at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., February 13, 1999. Presentations by Karl E. Meyer, Author of The Plundered Past, and has written extensively on the issues of cultural plunder and restitution; William St. Clair, Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge and author of Lord Elgin and the Marbles; David A. Walden, Secretary to the Canadian Commission for UNESCO; John H. Merryman, Sweitzer Professor of Law and Cooperating Professor of Art Emeritus at Stanford University; Stephen G. Miller, Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley, and Director of the Nemea Excavations in Greece since 1973; Alexandros Mantis, Senior Archaeologist of the Acropolis Division in Greece's Ministry of Culture.
Book Synopsis The Parthenon Marbles by : Christopher Hitchens
Download or read book The Parthenon Marbles written by Christopher Hitchens and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequently seized by Parliament and sold to the British Museum to help pay off his debts. This scandal, exacerbated by the inept handling of the sculptures by their self-appointed guardians, remains unresolved to this day. In his fierce, eloquent account of a shameful piece of British imperial history, Christopher Hitchens makes the moral, artistic, legal and political case for re-unifying the Parthenon frieze in Athens. The opening of the New Acropolis Museum emphatically trumps the British Museum's long-standing (if always questionable) objection that there is nowhere in Athens to house the Parthenon Marbles. With contributions by Nadine Gordimer and Professor Charalambos Bouras, The Parthenon Marbles will surely end all arguments about where these great treasures belong, and help bring a two-centuries-old disgrace to a just conclusion.
Book Synopsis The Parthenon Marbles Dispute by : Alexander Herman
Download or read book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute written by Alexander Herman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-21 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are we still arguing over the Parthenon Marbles? This book offers a fresh take on the history of those famous pieces of ancient sculpture removed from the Acropolis in Athens by Lord Elgin's men in the early 19th century. It explains how they became the cause célèbre of the larger debates around cultural heritage and restitution now taking place. The subject is one that is currently embroiling museums, governments, universities and the public at large. Herman provides a balanced, thorough and critical account of the history of the Marbles, while considering the legalities of their initial removal and the ethics of their retention by the British Museum. It incorporates the views of curators, museum directors, lawyers, archaeologists, politicians and others in both London and Athens. It explains why this particular dispute has not been satisfactorily resolved, and suggests new ways of seeking resolution for the Parthenon Marbles and for the many other cultural treasures held in museum collections outside their countries of origin. The book sets out a way forward for this famously intractable dispute, one based on evidence of past practice, legal rules around the transfer of cultural objects and the role of museums in negotiating international exchanges.
Book Synopsis Stones of Destiny by : J. E. D'Este-Clark
Download or read book Stones of Destiny written by J. E. D'Este-Clark and published by Austin Macauley Publishers. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One man’s greed can change the course of history forever... FIFTH CENTURY BC, ATHENS Humble sculptor, Nikodimos, toils away in his workshop to create a sumptuous marble masterpiece of Athena Parthenos destined for the Parthenon. NINETEENTH CENTURY AD, ATHENS Lord Quimby, blinded by greed, plunders the ancient Parthenon of its dearest treasures, watched by his helpless nephew. PRESENT DAY Young Cambridge student, Max Perceval, discovers a dark secret about his late ancestor and realises all is not what it seems in the Museum of Classical Antiquities.
Book Synopsis The Parthenon Marbles and International Law by : Catharine Titi
Download or read book The Parthenon Marbles and International Law written by Catharine Titi and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-05-24 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon marbles case is the most famous international cultural heritage dispute concerning repatriation of looted antiquities, the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum’s ‘Elgin Collection’. The case has polarised observers ever since Elgin had the marbles hacked out of the ancient temple at the turn of the 19th century in Ottoman-occupied Athens. In 1816, a debt-stricken Elgin sold the marbles to the British government, which subsequently entrusted them to the British Museum, where they have remained since then. Much ink has been spilled on the Parthenon marbles. The ethical and cultural merits of their repatriation have been fiercely debated for years. But what has generally not been considered are the legal merits of their return in light of contemporary international law. This book is the first in legal scholarship to provide an international law perspective of the cause célèbre of international cultural heritage disputes and, in doing so, to clarify the new customary international law on the return of cultural property unlawfully removed from its original context. The book, which includes a foreword by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, is a unique reference work on the legal case for the return of the Parthenon marbles and the new normative framework for the protection of cultural heritage.
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.
Book Synopsis A Short Guide to the Sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum (Elgin Collection). by : British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Download or read book A Short Guide to the Sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum (Elgin Collection). written by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Parthenon Marbles and International Law by : Catharine Titi
Download or read book The Parthenon Marbles and International Law written by Catharine Titi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2023-06-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parthenon marbles case is the most famous international cultural heritage dispute concerning repatriation of looted antiquities, the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum’s ‘Elgin Collection’. The case has polarised observers ever since Elgin had the marbles hacked out of the ancient temple at the turn of the 19th century in Ottoman-occupied Athens. In 1816, a debt-stricken Elgin sold the marbles to the British government, which subsequently entrusted them to the British Museum, where they have remained since then. Much ink has been spilled on the Parthenon marbles. The ethical and cultural merits of their repatriation have been fiercely debated for years. But what has generally not been considered are the legal merits of their return in light of contemporary international law. This book is the first in legal scholarship to provide an international law perspective of the cause célèbre of international cultural heritage disputes and, in doing so, to clarify the new customary international law on the return of cultural property unlawfully removed from its original context. The book, which includes a foreword by Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, is a unique reference work on the legal case for the return of the Parthenon marbles and the new normative framework for the protection of cultural heritage.
Download or read book The Parthenon written by Mary Beard and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ruined silhouette of the Parthenon on its hill above Athens is one of the world's most famous images. Its 'looted' Elgin Marbles are a global cause celebre. But what actually are they? In a revised and updated edition, Mary Beard, award winning writer, reviewer and leading Cambridge classicist, tells the history and explains the significance of the Parthenon, the temple of the virgin goddess Athena, the divine patroness of ancient Athens.
Book Synopsis A Guide to the Sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum by : British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities
Download or read book A Guide to the Sculptures of the Parthenon in the British Museum written by British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Parthenon Marbles in a Museum Environment by : Nikolaos Liakos
Download or read book The Parthenon Marbles in a Museum Environment written by Nikolaos Liakos and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thinking about the Elgin Marbles by : John Henry Merryman
Download or read book Thinking about the Elgin Marbles written by John Henry Merryman and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2009-06-10 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this insightful work begins with a critical reexamination of the rival Greek and British claims to the Elgin Marbles. That case study identifies the questions that continue to dominate the growing international debate about cultural property policy and which are subsequently explored in a newly-expanded array of essays: Why are people concerned about cultural property Is cultural nationalism a sound organizing principle for dealing with cultural property questions? Or is it a relic of 19th century romanticism, kept alive by the power of Byron's poetry? How can one rationalize cultural nationalism with the idea that works of art and antiquities are the cultural heritage of all mankind? What are alternative ways of thinking about cultural property policy and law? The work goes on to pay particular attention to the law and policy relating to cultural property export controls and the evolution and development of the 1995 UNIDROIT Convention on the Return of Stolen and Illegally Exported Cultural Property. The second part of this highly-regarded book addresses a number of contemporary art law issues in essays on counterfeit art, the moral rights of artists, the artist's resale right (droit de suite), the litigation over the Mark Rothko estate, and problems of museum trustee negligence, conflict of interests, and misuse of inside information. The author, John Henry Merryman, is an Emeritus and Affiliated Professor in the Department of Art at Stanford Law School. He is a widely respected authority in the fields of international cultural property and art law.
Book Synopsis The Sculpture of the Parthenon (the Elgin Marbles). by : Nikolaos Gialourēs
Download or read book The Sculpture of the Parthenon (the Elgin Marbles). written by Nikolaos Gialourēs and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Museums, World Heritage, and Interpretation - the Case of the Parthenon Marbles by : Moira G. Simpson
Download or read book Museums, World Heritage, and Interpretation - the Case of the Parthenon Marbles written by Moira G. Simpson and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Sculptures of the Parthenon, in the British Museum by : Arthur Hamilton Smith
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Sculptures of the Parthenon, in the British Museum written by Arthur Hamilton Smith and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Utimut written by Mille Gabriel and published by IWGIA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies a need to move beyond discussions of ownership, power and control in favour of exploring new kinds of partnerships between museums and the peoples or countries of origin, partnerships based on equitability and reconciliation.
