ANTIQUITY ON DISPLAY CLPR C

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-957055-3
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Classical Presences

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.

Zielgruppe

For students and scholars of art history, architectural history, museum studies, archaeology, and European and postcolonial studies. Also of interest to museum professionals and those interested in historic preservation and museum reconstructions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bilsel

Bilsel, Can

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 19. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures
List of Plates
Introduction
1: No place like Greece: Berlin s Museum Island and architectures of history
2: Reconstructing Pergamon: Antique fragments and modern visions
3: Berlin s imperial museum: The problem of style
4: Reconstructing Babylon: The return of the archaic
5: Architecture in the Museum: Monuments for a Mass Spectacle
Epilogue: Regimes of the authentic Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bilsel, Can
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.