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Illicit Antiquities
The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international 'antiquities' market. Objects are excavated without record, smuggled across borders and sold for exorbitant prices in the salesrooms of Europe and North America. In some countries this looting has now reached such a scale as to threaten the very survival of their archaeological and cultural heritage. This volume highlights the deleterious effects of the trade on cultural heritage, but in particular it focuses upon questions of legal and local responses: How can people become involved in the preservation of their past and what, in economic terms, are the costs and benefits? Are international conventions or export restrictions effective in diminishing the volume of the trade and the scale of its associated destruction?
Neil Brodie is an Archaeologist who since 1988 has been Coordinator of the Illicit Antiquities Research Centre at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge. Kathryn Walker Tubb is an Archaeological Conservator and Lecturer at the Institue of Archaeology, University College London. She has co-organized a major international conference entitled 'Conservation and the AntiquitiesTrade' in 1993 for the UK Institute for Conservation Archaeology Section.
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Cultural Resource Management in Contemporary Society
This innovative collection of essays from an international range of contributors describes various means of preserving, protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the context of economic development, competing claims of \"ownership\" of particular cultural resources, modern uses of structures and space, and other aspects of late twentieth-century life.
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Plaster Casts
This volume originates from an international conference (Oxford University, 2007). Texts address plaster casts and related themes from antiquity to the present day, and from Egypt to America, Mexico and New Zealand. They are of interest to classical archaeologists, art historians, the history of collecting, curators, conservators, collectors and artists. Articles explore the functions, status and reception of plaster casts in artists' workshops and in private and public collections, as well as hands-on issues, such as the making, trading, display and conservation of plaster casts. Case-studies on artists' use of material and technique include ancient Roman copyists, Renaissance sculptors and painters, Dutch 17th-century workshops, Canova, Boccioni and others. A second theme is the role of plaster casts in the history of collecting from the Renaissance to the present day.
Several papers address the dissemination of visual ideas, models and ideals through the medium. Papers on modern and contemporary art illuminate the changing uses and semantic values of plaster casts in this period. Amongst the types of casts discussed are artists' models and final works as well as casts after antiquities, including sculpture, architecture and gems (dactyliothecae). The volume demonstrates the richness of the field, both in terms of the material itself and modern scholarship concerned with it. Conceived as a handbook for students, academics, curators and collectors, the text will form a standard work on the role of plaster casts in the history of Western sculpture.
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Archaeology and Capitalism
The editors and contributors to this volume focus on the inherent political nature of archaeology and its impact on the practice of the discipline. Pointing to the discipline's history of advancing imperialist, colonialist, and racist objectives, they insist that archaeology must rethink its muted professional stance and become more overtly active agents of change. The discipline is not about an abstract \"archaeological record\" but about living individuals and communities, whose lives and heritage suffer from the abuse of power relationships with states and their agents. Only by recognizing this power disparity, and adopting a political ethic for the discipline, can archaeology justify its activities. Chapters range from a critique of traditional ethical codes, to examinations of the capitalist motivations and structures within the discipline, to calls for an engaged, emancipatory archaeology that improves the lives of the people with whom archaeologists work.
A direct challenge to the discipline, this volume will provoke discussion, disagreement, and inspiration for many in the field.
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Acquisition and Exhibition of Classical Antiquities
Cultural property and its stewardship have long been concerns of
museums, archaeologists, art historians, and nations, but recently
the legal and political consequences of collecting antiquities have
also attracted broad media attention. This has been the result, in
part, of several high-profile trials, as well as demands by various
governments for the return of antiquities to their countries of
origin.
These circumstances call out for public discussion that moves
beyond the rather clear-cut moral response to looting, to consider
the implications of buying, selling, and exhibiting antiquities. To
whom should they belong? What constitutes legal ownership of
antiquities? What laws govern their importation into the United
States, for instance? What circumstances, if any, demand the return
of those antiquities to their countries of origin? Is there a
consensus among archaeologists and museum directors about these
issues?
These and other pertinent issues are addressed in the essays and
responses collected in this volume. Delivered at a 2007 symposium
by eminent museum directors and curators, legal scholars,
archaeologists, and historians and practitioners of art and
architecture, these papers comprise a rich and nuanced reference
work.
Contributors: Malcolm Bell III, Nancy Bookidis, Douglas E.
Bradley, James Cuno, Dennis P. Doordan, Patty Gerstenblith, Charles
R. Loving, Michael Lykoudis, Joanne M. Mack, Mary Ellen O'Connell,
Robin F. Rhodes, Marcia Rickard, Kimerly Rorschach, C. Brian Rose,
Charles Rosenberg, Stefano Vassallo, Charles K. Williams II.
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