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• Title:The whole picture : the colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it / Alice Procter.
  
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• Variant Title:Colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it
  
• Author/Creator:Procter, Alice (Art historian), author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Cassell, 2020.
  ©2020
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: AM7 .P75 2020
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Art museums--Exhibitions--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Art museums--Acquisitions--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Museum exhibits--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Cultural property--Repatriation.
  Human remains (Archaeology)--Repatriation.
  Art, Colonial.
  Museums.
  
• Medical Subjects: Museums.
  Colonialism.
  Ethnic Violence.
  
• Description:304 pages, xvi pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:"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.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-295) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781788401555 (hardback)
  1788401557 (hardback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: pt. I Palace
  1. Vases & Attitudes
  2. Sarcophagus
  3. Pitt's Diamond
  4. Offering
  5. Forged Relics
  pt. II Classroom
  6. Kangaroo & the Dingo
  7. Mai
  8. Tiger of Mysore
  9. Abolitionists
  10. England's Greatness
  11. Shield
  pt. III Memorial
  12. Haida Carving
  13. Mokomokai
  14. Mining the Museum
  15. Human Zoos
  16. Coffin
  pt. IV Playground
  17. Museum Highlights
  18. Crowd Control
  19. Ship
  20. Sugar Baby
  21. Change the Date
  22. Return.