The Whole Picture
The colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it
$21.24
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
9 March 2021
Summary
Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story… [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again. - Financial Times
A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see the problematic colonial histories behind them. - Sumaya Kassim
Should museum…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781788402453 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1788402456 |
| Author: | Alice Procter |
| Publisher: | Octopus Publishing Group |
| Imprint: | Cassell |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 9 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 246g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 126mm x 28mm |
About The Author
Alice Procter
Alice Procter is an historian of material culture and the creator of Uncomfortable Art Tours. She curates exhibitions, organizes events, makes podcasts and writes things under the umbrella of The Exhibitionist. Procter studied at University College London, and her academic work concentrates on the intersections of postcolonial art practice and colonial material culture, settler storytelling, the concept of whiteness in the 18th and 19th centuries, the curation of historical trauma, and myths of national identity. She has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Front Row, and her work has been featured in the New York Times, the Guardian, the New Statesman, Aljazeera.com and The Times. She is Australian but grew up in Hong Kong and London.
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