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Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities
James Cuno
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Paperback. The international controversy over who "owns" antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. This book assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake in this struggle - and why the museums' critics couldn't be more wrong. Editor(s): Cuno, James. Num Pages: 232 pages, 44 halftones. BIC Classification: ABC; GM; HD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 12. Weight in Grams: 434.
The international controversy over who owns antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake in this struggle--and why the museums' critics couldn't be more wrong. Source countries and archaeologists favor tough cultural property laws restricting the export of antiquities, have fought for the return of artifacts ... Read more
The international controversy over who owns antiquities has pitted museums against archaeologists and source countries where ancient artifacts are found. In his book Who Owns Antiquity?, James Cuno argued that antiquities are the cultural property of humankind, not of the countries that lay exclusive claim to them. Now in Whose Culture?, Cuno assembles preeminent museum directors, curators, and scholars to explain for themselves what's at stake in this struggle--and why the museums' critics couldn't be more wrong. Source countries and archaeologists favor tough cultural property laws restricting the export of antiquities, have fought for the return of artifacts ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
434g
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691154435
SKU
V9780691154435
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About James Cuno
James Cuno is president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust and former director of the Art Institute of Chicago. His books include Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage (Princeton).
Reviews for Whose Culture?: The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities
In this new collection of essays, Cuno has also assembled a group of broadly like-minded colleagues, both museum curators and academics, all of whom affirm, from a variety of perspectives, why great encyclopaedic collections can, and ought, to exist... [The volume] marks an important advance. After an uncertain, not to say timorous, few decades, the leadership of at least some ... Read more