Author: M. A. Il'ina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785884311107
Category : Ethnological museums and collections
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Kunstkamera 290
Author: M. A. Il'ina
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785884311107
Category : Ethnological museums and collections
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9785884311107
Category : Ethnological museums and collections
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
The Art and Architecture of Russia
Author: George Heard Hamilton
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300053272
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Offers a survey of the painting and architecture of Russia
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300053272
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Offers a survey of the painting and architecture of Russia
Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia 2003
Author:
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781857431377
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9781857431377
Category : Asia, Central
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
Keeping Their Marbles
Author: Tiffany Jenkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191631884
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains. In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for return. Contrary to the arguments of campaigners, she shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history. Instead, this ground-breaking book makes the case for museums as centres of knowledge, demonstrating that no object has a single home, and no one culture owns culture.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191631884
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The fabulous collections housed in the world's most famous museums are trophies from an imperial age. Yet the huge crowds that each year visit the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, or the Metropolitan in New York have little idea that many of the objects on display were acquired by coercion or theft. Now the countries from which these treasures came would like them back. The Greek demand for the return of the Elgin Marbles is the tip of an iceberg that includes claims for the Benin Bronzes from Nigeria, sculpture from Turkey, scrolls and porcelain taken from the Chinese Summer Palace, textiles from Peru, the bust of Nefertiti, Native American sacred objects, and Aboriginal human remains. In Keeping Their Marbles, Tiffany Jenkins tells the bloody story of how western museums came to acquire these objects. She investigates why repatriation claims have soared in recent decades and demonstrates how it is the guilt and insecurity of the museums themselves that have stoked the demands for return. Contrary to the arguments of campaigners, she shows that sending artefacts back will not achieve the desired social change nor repair the wounds of history. Instead, this ground-breaking book makes the case for museums as centres of knowledge, demonstrating that no object has a single home, and no one culture owns culture.
Treasures from Native California
Author: Travis Hudson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315416360
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is the first English-language study and catalog detailing ethnographic work and material collections of the indigenous populations done by early Russian travelers to California.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1315416360
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This is the first English-language study and catalog detailing ethnographic work and material collections of the indigenous populations done by early Russian travelers to California.
Greco-Scythian Art and the Birth of Eurasia
Author: Caspar Meyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019968233X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Drawing on evidence from archaeology, art history, and textual sources to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, Meyer offers unique introductions to the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to Asia and classical Greece, modern museum and visual culture studies, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 019968233X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
Drawing on evidence from archaeology, art history, and textual sources to contextualize Greco-Scythian metalwork in ancient society, Meyer offers unique introductions to the archaeology of Scythia and its ties to Asia and classical Greece, modern museum and visual culture studies, and the intellectual history of classics in Russia and the West.
A. Kertész, Photographer
Author: André Kertész
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography, Artistic
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825
Author: Andreas Schönle
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501757725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years of 1762 and 1825. Through a series of rich case studies, the editors reconstruct the social group's worldview, complex identities, conflicting loyalties, and evolving habits. The studies explore the institutions that shaped these nobles, their attitude to state service, the changing patterns of their family life, their emotional world, religious beliefs, and sense of time. The creation of a Europeanized elite in Russia was a state-initiated project that aimed to overcome the presumed "backwardness" of the country. The evolution of this social group in its relations to political authority provides insight into the fraught identity of a country developing on the geopolitical periphery of Europe. In contrast to postcolonial studies that explore the imposition of political, social, and cultural structures on colonized societies, this multidisciplinary volume explores the patterns of behavior and emotion that emerge from the processes of self-Europeanization. The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825, will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in Russian history and culture, particularly in light of current political debates about globalization and widening social inequality in Europe.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501757725
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
This illuminating volume provides a new understanding of the subjective identity and public roles of Russia's Europeanized elite between the years of 1762 and 1825. Through a series of rich case studies, the editors reconstruct the social group's worldview, complex identities, conflicting loyalties, and evolving habits. The studies explore the institutions that shaped these nobles, their attitude to state service, the changing patterns of their family life, their emotional world, religious beliefs, and sense of time. The creation of a Europeanized elite in Russia was a state-initiated project that aimed to overcome the presumed "backwardness" of the country. The evolution of this social group in its relations to political authority provides insight into the fraught identity of a country developing on the geopolitical periphery of Europe. In contrast to postcolonial studies that explore the imposition of political, social, and cultural structures on colonized societies, this multidisciplinary volume explores the patterns of behavior and emotion that emerge from the processes of self-Europeanization. The Europeanized Elite in Russia, 1762–1825, will appeal to scholars and general readers interested in Russian history and culture, particularly in light of current political debates about globalization and widening social inequality in Europe.
Beyond the Edges
Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Lev Shternberg
Author: Sergei Kan
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803224702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861 1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country s peoples. Lev Shternberg, who as a political exile during the late tsarist period had conducted ethnographic research in northeastern Siberia, was one of the anthropologists who directed this survey and consequently played a major role in influencing the professionalization of anthropology in the Soviet Union. But Shternberg was much more than a government anthropologist. Under the new regime he continued his work as the senior curator of the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, which began in the early 1900s. In the last decade of his life Shternberg also played a leading role in establishing a new Soviet school of cultural anthropology and in training a cohort of professional anthropologists. True to the ideals of his youth, he also continued an active involvement in the intellectual life of the Jewish community, even though the new regime was making it increasingly difficult. This in-depth biography explores the scholarly and political aspects of Shternberg s life and how they influenced each other. It also places his career in both national and international perspectives, showing the context in which he lived and worked and revealing the important developments in Russian anthropology during these tumultuous years.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803224702
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
This intellectual biography of Lev Shternberg (1861 1927) illuminates the development of professional anthropology in late imperial and early Soviet Russia. Shortly after the formation of the Soviet Union the government initiated a detailed ethnographic survey of the country s peoples. Lev Shternberg, who as a political exile during the late tsarist period had conducted ethnographic research in northeastern Siberia, was one of the anthropologists who directed this survey and consequently played a major role in influencing the professionalization of anthropology in the Soviet Union. But Shternberg was much more than a government anthropologist. Under the new regime he continued his work as the senior curator of the St. Petersburg Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, which began in the early 1900s. In the last decade of his life Shternberg also played a leading role in establishing a new Soviet school of cultural anthropology and in training a cohort of professional anthropologists. True to the ideals of his youth, he also continued an active involvement in the intellectual life of the Jewish community, even though the new regime was making it increasingly difficult. This in-depth biography explores the scholarly and political aspects of Shternberg s life and how they influenced each other. It also places his career in both national and international perspectives, showing the context in which he lived and worked and revealing the important developments in Russian anthropology during these tumultuous years.