Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage

Name: Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage
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ISBN: 9780691148106

ISBN-10: 0691148104

ISBN-13: 9780691148106

Edition: 2011 (Revised)

Authors: James Cuno

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Whether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the acquisition of undocumented antiquities by museums encourages the looting of archaeological sites, countries such as Italy, Greece, Egypt, Turkey, and China have claimed ancient artifacts as state property, called for their return from museums around the world, and passed laws against their future export. But inWho Owns Antiquity?, one of the world's leading museum directors vigorously challenges this…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

James Cuno is the president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust. He served as president and director of the Art Institute of Chicago from 2004 until 2011. He is the author of Who Owns Antiquity? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage, coauthor of The Modern Wing: Renzo Piano and the Art Institute of Chicago, and coauthor and editor of Whose Culture? The Promise of Museums and the Debate over Antiquities and Whose Muse? Art Museums and the Public Trust.