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Collections at Risk
Derricks, Claire; Delvaux, Luc
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Description for Collections at Risk
Paperback. Conflicts and wars, and specifically the 2011 Revolution in Egypt, have brought to light the worrying question of the preservation of the cultural heritage in the world. The roles of museums and international institutions have become ever more important in this respect. Series: Material and Visual Culture of Ancient Egypt. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. Weight in Grams: 399.
Conflicts and wars, and more specifically the 2011 Revolution in Egypt, have brought to light the worrying question of the preservation of the cultural heritage in the world. The roles of museums and international institutions have become ever more important in this respect.
Recognizing that cultural treasures can form the basis for education and economic prosperity, the organizers devoted the 29th Annual Meeting of ICOM's International Committee for Egyptology (CIPEG) to the theme of Collections at Risk: New Challenges in a New Environment.
The present volume contains several of the papers read during those sessions in ... Read more
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Lockwood Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Series
Material and Visual Culture of Ancient Egypt
Number of Pages
360
Place of Publication
Atlanta, United States
ISBN
9781937040604
SKU
V9781937040604
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Ref
99-50
About Derricks, Claire; Delvaux, Luc
Claire Derriks is Curator Emeritus at the Royal Museum of Mariemont, Belgium and Professor at the Royal Institute for History of Art and Archaeology, Brussels.
Reviews for Collections at Risk
... this volume gathers a number of little-known stories behind the formation, interpretation and display of collections of Egyptian artefacts. [...] This volume thus fits well within and increasing consciousness of the random routes by which collections appear - asking us to reconsider constructions of 'ancient Egypt' based on such idiosyncratic material'
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