Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage
by James Cuno
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Author: James CunoEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-05-11
ISBN: 0691137129
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Book Review: WILL CUNO AND CO EVER LEARN?
Summary: 3 Stars
WILL CUNO AND CO EVER LEARN?
Cuno is a defender of the so-called "universal museums", now called "encyclopedic museums" and perhaps more correctly, imperialistic or totalitarian museums. The museum that never has enough of anything and seeks a total control of all cultural objects by all means, including the use of force by the army of the country where the museum is situated-Louvre, British Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago. These museums now lament the end of the imperialistic and colonial period in which they amassed most of their stock. This was the period when the Europeans could take virtually from any country what ever cultural object they desired. That period is, mercifully, at an end and Cuno and co are agitating for the return to that system, so-called partage system which enabled the Europeans to take away massive archaeological objects from countries like Egypt. Cuno labels those who seek the return of the stolen cultural objects as nationalists but what about those who fight to keep the objects in the museums of the West, are they internationalists or what?
This new book does not advance in anyway the debate about the restitution of cultural objects. On the contrary it will only help to solidify the known positions. That leading museum directors do not understand the desire of Africans and Asians to recover their stolen cultural objects, is a sad commentary on the cultural landscape of the world. The perspective would have appeared better without the addition of this book which will only serve as additional object for heated controversies and it comes from a museum director of one of the leading museums of the Western world.
Kwame Opoku. 22 May,2008.
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