Cover; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Part I: Museums, Knowledge and Disciplinarity; 1. Museums and the construction of knowledge; 2. Museum worlds and the bounding of knowledges; Part II: Art and Archaeology in 1850s London; 3. Notions of art and archaeology in museum debate; 4. New boundaries; 5. Final thoughts; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X
Summary
Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual differentiation and physical separation of 'archaeological' and 'artistic' material culture, looking especially at the ways in which objects and histories were contested within museum politics. For example, in the 1850s, the status of Egyptian antiquities as 'art' or 'archaeology' was keenly debated, and this related closely to questions about whi
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146) and index
