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Bilsel, Can

 
9780199570553: Antiquity on Display: Regimes of the Authentic in Berlin's Pergamon Museum
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0199570558 ISBN 13 : 9780199570553
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Reconstructing the lost monuments of Antiquity became, after 1800, a complement to Europe's colonial imagination. Countless archaeologists and architects travelled to the East, excavated extinct cities, and shipped their finds to Europe for display in imperial museums.

Antiquity on Display is a critical biography of Berlin's Pergamon Museum and its popular architectural displays: the Great Altar of Pergamon, the Market Gate of Miletus, and the Ishtar Gate of Babylon. In this volume, Bilsel argues that the museum has produced a modern décor, an iconic image, which has replaced the lost antique originals, rather than creating an explicitly hypothetical representation of Antiquity. Addressing the dilemmas raised by the continuing presence of these displays, which embody the distinctive traits of the artistic and ideological programs of the last two centuries, Bilsel questions what the process of reproduction and authentication of Antiquity in the museum tells us about our changing perceptions of historic monuments. Documenting the process through which these imaginative reproductions of architecture were conceived, staged, and came to be perceived as authentic monuments, this volume offers an insight into the history of Berlin's Museum Island and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the nineteenth century to the present.

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À propos de l'auteur

Can Bilsel is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Art, Architecture and Art History at the University of San Diego. He is also the founding director of the University of San Diego's Architecture Program.


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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199570558
ISBN 13 
9780199570553
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
308
Coordonnées du fabricant
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