The Whole Picture: The Colonial Story of the Art in Our Museums & Why We Need to Talk About It - Brossura

Procter, Alice

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1788402456 ISBN 13: 9781788402453

Casa editrice: Cassell, 2021

Riassunto

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale - think again.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Alice Procter is an historian of material culture based at UCL. She has six years of tourguiding experience at heritage sites and galleries, and curates exhibitions, organises events, makes podcasts and writes things under the umbrella of The Exhibitionist. Alice's academic work concentrates on the intersections of postcolonial art practice and colonial material culture, settler storytelling, the concept of whiteness in the 18th and 19th centuries, the curation of historical trauma, and myths of national identity. She has has recorded material for the Tate's newly updated audio guides showcasing different voices. Alice is Australian but mostly grew up in England.

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Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?

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.

The Whole Picture 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.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Cassell
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 1788402456
• ISBN 13: 9781788402453
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 319
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile