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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Khadija von Zinnenburg CarrollPublisher: The University of Chicago Press Imprint: University of Chicago Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9780226802060ISBN 10: 022680206 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 16 February 2022 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Writing as Listening Chapter 2: El Penacho Chapter 3: The View from the Vitrine Chapter 4: The Real and the Replica Chapter 5: Collecting and Catastrophe Chapter 6: Monuments and Exile Chapter 7: Relational Ethics and the Future of Museums Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThe Contested Crown is a beautifully written and engaging work, effectively weaving together family history, colonial studies, museum politics, conservation dilemmas, national agendas, and personal reflections. Carroll situates the book in a global art history while also considering a psychological dimension of the protagonists' feelings, from guilt to intimacy. -- Sally Price, author of Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly """Reflecting on the repatriation of cultural property, this study covers disputed objects from the differing perspectives of ownership on the part of European museums in Austria, the UK, France, and Germany that currently hold cultural artifacts originally taken from Mexico. . . . Carroll reflects on the controversial five-centuries-long history in Mexico and Austria of El Penacho, the titular contested crown, believed to have belonged to Aztec Emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin. . . . The study concludes with an analysis of the ethics of keeping artifacts in museums in the future."" * Choice * ""The Contested Crown is a beautifully written and engaging work, effectively weaving together family history, colonial studies, museum politics, conservation dilemmas, national agendas, and personal reflections. Carroll situates the book in a global art history while also considering a psychological dimension of the protagonists’ feelings, from guilt to intimacy.” -- Sally Price, author of Paris Primitive: Jacques Chirac's Museum on the Quai Branly “I urge you to spend some time with The Contested Crown—an original, personal, and creative insight into the repatriation debate from someone uniquely placed to comment. The book invites us all to situate ourselves within a story that has deep historical roots and casts long shadows on all of our lives.” -- Charlotte Joy, author of Heritage Justice" Author InformationKhadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is an Austrian-Australian artist and historian. She is chair of Global Art at the University of Birmingham and professor at the Central European University. She is the author of Art in the Time of Colony, The Importance of Being Anachronistic, Botanical Drift, and Bordered Lives. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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