Who Owns Antiquity? : Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage (New in Paper).

Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisitio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cuno, James
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Antiquities > Collection and preservation > Philosophy.
Cultural property.
Cultural property > Repatriation.
Museums > Acquisitions > Philosophy.
Museums > Collection management > International cooperation.
Antiquités > Collections et conservation > Philosophie.
Patrimoine culturel > Restitution.
Musées > Acquisitions > Philosophie.
Musées > Gestion des collections > Coopération internationale.
Cultural property
Cultural property > Repatriation
History & Archaeology.
Archaeology.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological sites, countries such as Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and China have claimed ancient artifacts as state property, called for their return from museums around the world, and passed laws against their future export. But.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (285 pages)
ISBN:9781400839247
1400839246

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