Keeping Their Marbles

Author : Tiffany Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Antiquities
ISBN : 9780198817185

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Keeping Their Marbles by Tiffany Jenkins Pdf

For the past two centuries and more, the West has acquired the treasures of antiquity to fill its museums, so that visitors to the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris and the Metropolitan in New York - to name but a few - can wonder at the ingenuity of humanity throughout the ages. However, in the opinion of most people, many of these items are looted property and should be returned immediately. In 'Keeping Their Marbles', Tiffany Jenkins tells the intriguing and sometimes bloody story of how the West came to acquire these treasures. Originally published: 2016.

Author : Christopher Hitchens
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786631824

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The Parthenon Marbles by Christopher Hitchens Pdf

The most powerful case yet made for the return of the Parthenon Marbles The Parthenon Marbles (formerly known as the Elgin Marbles), designed and executed by Pheidias to adorn the Parthenon, are perhaps the greatest of all classical sculptures. In 1801, Lord Elgin, then ambassador to the Turkish government, had chunks of the frieze sawn off and shipped to England, where they were subsequently seized by Parliament and sold to the British Museum to help pay off his debts. This scandal, exacerbated by the inept handling of the sculptures by their self-appointed guardians, remains unresolved to this day. In his fierce, eloquent account of a shameful piece of British imperial history, Christopher Hitchens makes the moral, artistic, legal and political case for re-unifying the Parthenon frieze in Athens. The opening of the New Acropolis Museum emphatically trumps the British Museum’s long-standing (if always questionable) objection that there is nowhere in Athens to house the Parthenon Marbles. With contributions by Nadine Gordimer and Professor Charalambos Bouras, The Parthenon Marbles will surely end all arguments about where these great treasures belong, and help bring a two-centuries-old disgrace to a just conclusion.

Author : John Kalb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0974923508

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Keep Your Marbles by John Kalb Pdf

Your brain is the most complex object in the known universe. But, brain health does NOT have to be complicated! This is now an urgent concern for us all. The good news? We can do something about it. We can keep our marbles. We are not helpless victims of brain aging-IF we know what to do. That's exactly what you'll learn in this book.

Author : Reggie Joiner,Kristen Ivy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0985411694

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Losing Your Marbles by Reggie Joiner,Kristen Ivy Pdf

Author : Joseph Joffo
Publisher : Graphic Universe ™
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781467716512

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A Bag of Marbles by Joseph Joffo Pdf

In 1941, ten-year-old Joseph Joffo and his older brother, Maurice, must hide their Jewish heritage and undertake a long and dangerous journey from Nazi-occupied Paris to reach their other brothers in the free zone.

Author : Howard Morphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351339544

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Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols by Howard Morphy Pdf

Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters a dialogue about museums’ responsibility for the curation of their collections into an infinite future while also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections. Bringing into focus a number of key debates centred on ethnographic collections and their relationship with source communities, Morphy considers the value material objects have to different ‘local’ communities – the museum and the source community – and the value-creation processes with which they are entangled. The focus on values and value brings the issue of repatriation and access into a dialogue between the two locals, questioning who has access to collections and whose values are taken into consideration. Placing the museum itself firmly at the centre of the debate, Morphy posits that museums constitute a kind of ‘local’ embedded in a trajectory of value. Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols challenges aspects of postcolonial theory that position museums in the past by presenting an argument that places relationships with communities as central to the future of museums. This makes the book essential reading for academics and students working in the fields of museum and heritage studies, anthropology, archaeology, Indigenous studies, cultural studies, and history.

Author : Ian Dennis Jenkins
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0674026926

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The Parthenon Sculptures by Ian Dennis Jenkins Pdf

The Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum are unrivaled examples of classical Greek art, an inspiration to artists and writers since their creation in the fifth century bce. A superb visual introduction to these wonders of antiquity, this book offers a photographic tour of the most famous of the surviving sculptures from ancient Greece, viewed within their cultural and art-historical context. Ian Jenkins offers an account of the history of the Parthenon and its architectural refinements. He introduces the sculptures as architecture--pediments, metopes, Ionic frieze--and provides an overview of their subject matter and possible meaning for the people of ancient Athens. Accompanying photographs focus on the pediment sculptures that filled the triangular gables at each end of the temple; the metopes that crowned the architrave surmounting the outer columns; and the frieze that ran around the four sides of the building, inside the colonnade. Comparative images, showing the sculptures in full and fine detail, bring out particular features of design and help to contrast Greek ideas with those of other cultures. The book further reflects on how, over 2,500 years, the cultural identity of the Parthenon sculptures has changed. In particular, Jenkins expands on the irony of our intimate knowledge and appreciation of the sculptures--a relationship far more intense than that experienced by their ancient, intended spectators--as they have been transformed from architectural ornaments into objects of art.

Author : Geoffrey Robertson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781785905421

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Who Owns History? by Geoffrey Robertson Pdf

The biggest question in the world of art and culture concerns the return of property taken without consent. Throughout history, conquerors or colonial masters have taken artefacts from subjugated peoples, who now want them returned from museums and private collections in Europe and the USA. The controversy rages on over the Elgin Marbles, and has been given immediacy by figures such as France's President Macron, who says he will order French museums to return hundreds of artworks acquired by force or fraud in Africa, and by British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn, who has pledged that a Labour government would return the Elgin Marbles to Greece. Elsewhere, there is a debate in Belgium about whether the Africa Museum, newly opened with 120,000 items acquired mainly by armed forces in the Congo, should close. Although there is an international convention dated 1970 that deals with the restoration of artefacts stolen since that time, there is no agreement on the rules of law or ethics which should govern the fate of objects forcefully or lawlessly acquired in previous centuries. Who Owns History? delves into the crucial debate over the Elgin Marbles, but also offers a system for the return of cultural property based on human rights law principles that are being developed by the courts. It is not a legal text, but rather an examination of how the past can be experienced by everyone, as well as by the people of the country of origin.

Author : Dorothy King
Publisher : Hutchinson Publishing Group
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Classical antiquities
ISBN : 0091800137

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The Elgin Marbles by Dorothy King Pdf

Oxbow says: This book's author does not shy away from expressing her opinions on the destruction of ancient sites in Greece and her belief that the Elgin Marbles are best left in the care of the British Museum, or at least for the time being.

Author : Randal N. M. Graham
Publisher : ECW Press
Page : 567 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 17-09-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781773050560

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Beforelife by Randal N. M. Graham Pdf

ItÕs okay if you donÕt believe in the afterlife. The people who live there donÕt believe in you, either. What if you went to heaven and no one there believed in Earth? This is the question at the heart of Beforelife, a satirical novel that follows the post-mortem adventures of widower Ian Brown, a man who dies on the bookÕs first page and finds himself in an afterlife where no one else believes in Òpre-incarnation.Ó The other residents of the afterlife have mysteriously forgotten their pre-mortem lives and think that anyone who remembers a mortal life is suffering from a mental disorder called the ÒBeforelife Delusion.Ó None of that really matters to Ian. All he wants to do is reunite with Penelope, his wife. Scouring the afterlife for any sign of her, Ian accidentally winds up on a quest to prove that the beforelife is real. This puts him squarely into the crosshairs of some of historyÕs greatest heroes and villains, all of whom seem unhealthily obsessed with erasing IanÕs memories and preventing him from reminding anyone of their pre-mortem lives. Only by staying a step ahead of his enemies can Ian hope to keep his much-needed marbles, find Penelope, and restore the publicÕs memories of the beforelife.

Author : Christopher Hitchens,Robert Browning,Graham Binns
Publisher : Verso
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 1859842208

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The Elgin Marbles by Christopher Hitchens,Robert Browning,Graham Binns Pdf

The Elgin Marbles, designed and executed by Phidias to adorn the Parthenon, are some of the most beautiful sculptures of ancient Greece. In 1801 Lord Elgin, then British ambassador to the Turkish government in Athens, had pieces of the frieze sawn off and removed to Britain, where they remain, igniting a storm of controversy which has continued to the present day. In the first full-length work on this fiercely debated issue, Christopher Hitchens recounts the history of these precious sculptures and forcefully makes the case for their return to Greece. Drawing out the artistic, moral, legal and political perspectives of the argument, Hitchens's eloquent prose makes The Elgin Marbles an invaluable contribution to one of the most important cultural controversies of our times.

Author : Pamela Carey
Publisher : Barking Cat Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06
Category : Adult children of aging parents
ISBN : 1891724185

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Elderly Parents with All Their Marbles by Pamela Carey Pdf

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-150).

Author : Ellen Forney
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101617199

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Marbles by Ellen Forney Pdf

Cartoonist Ellen Forney explores the relationship between “crazy” and “creative” in this graphic memoir of her bipolar disorder, woven with stories of famous bipolar artists and writers. Shortly before her thirtieth birthday, Forney was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Flagrantly manic and terrified that medications would cause her to lose creativity, she began a years-long struggle to find mental stability while retaining her passions and creativity. Searching to make sense of the popular concept of the crazy artist, she finds inspiration from the lives and work of other artists and writers who suffered from mood disorders, including Vincent van Gogh, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Styron, and Sylvia Plath. She also researches the clinical aspects of bipolar disorder, including the strengths and limitations of various treatments and medications, and what studies tell us about the conundrum of attempting to “cure” an otherwise brilliant mind. Darkly funny and intensely personal, Forney’s memoir provides a visceral glimpse into the effects of a mood disorder on an artist’s work, as she shares her own story through bold black-and-white images and evocative prose.

Author : Jacob Singer
Publisher : Jacob Singer
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1432775448

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The, Vase with the Many Coloured Marbles by Jacob Singer Pdf

The name of Nelson Mandela is familiar to many, as a warrior against the injustices of apartheid. But many South Africans worked to break the power of the Verwoerd regime: the Black ANC and PAC, but also English and Afrikaans-speaking whites. In The Vase with the Many Coloured Marbles, Jacob Singer draws on his personal knowledge and experience to reach out to all South Africans, especially those who left the country because of violence; who live in exile all over the world. Jacob tells the stories of men and women who were harassed and discriminated against, and of politicians in the government who surreptitiously worked against the very regime that had employed them. Youll read about unsung heroes such as Emily Kleintjies, who crossed the apartheid barrier and established a life for herself as a white woman. You dont have to be South African or a student of history to learn from this remarkable book, which shares a wealth of unique experience. Everyone who is concerned with justice and the human condition will be fascinated and enlightened by the tragedies and triumphs shared in Jacob Singers words.

Author : Mark P. Block
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 076432294X

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The Encyclopedia of Modern Marbles, Spheres, & Orbs by Mark P. Block Pdf

This beautiful and thought-provoking reference explores the close relationships among contemporary studio art glass marbles, spheres, and orbs and their predecessors, the marbles of childhood, as well as areas of significant divergence. Over 900 gorgeous color photos display the vast range available today, including handmade and machine-made marbles, edition types, regular stock, open edition production stock, prototypes, limited editions, experimental works, and studio glass. Many rare and historical examples are shown. The thorough and engaging text provides a history of the studio glass movement, manufacturing processes, artists' marks, essential information on building and caring for a collection, and methods of valuing items in a collection. Also included are a glossary, a bibliography, an index, and values in the captions. All glass fanciers will learn about this new generation of modern styles.