{"product_id":"b07xxswbnf","title":"The Whole Picture: The colonial story of the art in our museums \u0026 why we need to talk about it","description":"\u003cp\u003eProbing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again.   Financial Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see the problematic colonial histories behind them.' - Sumaya Kassim\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShould museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHow to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is divided into four chronological sections, named after four different kinds of art space: The Palace, The Classroom, The Memorial and The Playground. Each section tackles the fascinating, enlightening and often shocking stories of a selection of art pieces, including the propaganda painting the East India Company used to justify its rule in India; the tattooed Maori skulls collected as 'art objects' by Europeans; and works by contemporary artists who are taking on colonial history in their work and activism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Whole Picture is a much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art, and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52836548215000,"sku":"YSL61186","price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/912etIb-CFL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793270577","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b07xxswbnf","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}