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Antiquity on Display
Can Bilsel
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Description for Antiquity on Display
Antiquity on Display offers an insight into the history of the imaginative reproductions of architecture housed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the nineteenth century to the present. Series: Classical Presences. Num Pages: 304 pages, 99 in text illustrations and 8 colour plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3D; ACG; AMX; HBLA1; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 666.
Reconstructing the lost monuments of Antiquity became, after 1800, a complement to Europe's colonial imagination. Countless archaeologists and architects travelled to the East, excavated extinct cities, and shipped their finds to Europe for display in imperial museums. Antiquity on Display is a critical biography of Berlin's Pergamon Museum and its popular architectural displays: the Great Altar of Pergamon, the Market Gate of Miletus, and the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. In this volume, Bilsel argues that the museum has produced a modern décor, an iconic image, which has replaced the lost antique originals, rather than creating an explicitly hypothetical representation ... Read more
Reconstructing the lost monuments of Antiquity became, after 1800, a complement to Europe's colonial imagination. Countless archaeologists and architects travelled to the East, excavated extinct cities, and shipped their finds to Europe for display in imperial museums. Antiquity on Display is a critical biography of Berlin's Pergamon Museum and its popular architectural displays: the Great Altar of Pergamon, the Market Gate of Miletus, and the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. In this volume, Bilsel argues that the museum has produced a modern décor, an iconic image, which has replaced the lost antique originals, rather than creating an explicitly hypothetical representation ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Classical Presences
Number of Pages
308
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780199570553
SKU
V9780199570553
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About Can Bilsel
Can Bilsel is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Architecture and Art History at the University of San Diego. He is also the founding director of the University of San Diego's Architecture Program.
Reviews for Antiquity on Display
Antiquity on Display is another fine addition to OUP's Classical Presences series and is highly recommended not just for scholars interested in the reception of antiquity in 18th- and 19th-century Germany, but, thanks to its accessible style, also for anyone planning to visit Berlin.
Lydia Tjapkes-Langerwerf, Classical Journal
a formidable book
Mike Crang, Antiquity
Antiquity on ... Read more
Lydia Tjapkes-Langerwerf, Classical Journal
a formidable book
Mike Crang, Antiquity
Antiquity on ... Read more