| Description |
304 pages, xvi pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: pt. I The Palace -- 1.Vases & Attitudes -- 2.The Sarcophagus -- 3.Pitt's Diamond -- 4.An Offering -- 5.Forged Relics -- pt. II The Classroom -- 6.The Kangaroo & the Dingo -- 7.Mai -- 8.The Tiger of Mysore -- 9.Abolitionists -- 10.England's Greatness -- 11.The Shield -- pt. III The Memorial -- 12.A Haida Carving -- 13.Mokomokai -- 14.Mining the Museum -- 15.Human Zoos -- 16.The Coffin -- pt. IV The Playground -- 17.Museum Highlights -- 18.Crowd Control -- 19.The Ship -- 20.Sugar Baby -- 21.Change the Date -- 22.Return |
| Summary |
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. Discover 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 the contemporary artists who are taking on colonial history in their work and activism today |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Museum exhibits
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Cultural property -- Repatriation
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Human remains (Archaeology) -- Repatriation
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Art, Colonial
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Colonies
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Great Britain -- Cultural policy
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| ISBN |
9781788401555 (hardback) |
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