Museums and museum politics were important elements in the development
of the disciplines of Archaeology and Art History in
nineteenth-century Britain. Here Christopher Whitehead explores some
of the key debates and events which led to the conceptual
differentiation and physical separation of 'archaeological' and
'artistic' material culture, looking especially at the ways in which
objects and histories were contested within museum politics. For
example, in the 1850s, the status of Egyptian antiquities as 'art' or
'archaeology' was keenly debated, and this related closely to
questions about which kinds of museum should house them and the
possible histories and epistemologies in which they might figure. This
concise study serves as a basis for a discussion of the continued
intellectual legacy of this for our understanding, management and
presentation of the past in the museum and in curricula. It is argued
that by understanding the politics and circumstances through which the
two disciplines were delimited and distinguished from one another we
may be able to glimpse, retrospectively, the possibility of
alternative art histories and alternative archaeologies.
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ISBN
9781472521415
Publisert
2015
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Bloomsbury Academic
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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