The Whole Picture

The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it

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Beschreibung

<p><b>'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.'</b> <i>Financial Times </i></p><p><b>'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.' </b>Sumaya Kassim</p><p>***</p><p><b>Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?</b></p><p>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. <b>Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours</b>, 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.</p><p>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.</p><p><b><i>The Whole Picture</i> </b>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.</p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9781788402453

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

122 x 194 x 26 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Verlag / Hersteller

Octopus Publishing Ltd.