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The Whole Picture
- Author
- Alice Procter
- Narrator
- Alice Procter
- Publisher
- Octopus
- Publish Date
- 19 March 2020
- Run Time
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation and independence, History of art, Forgery, falsification and theft of artworks
- Rating
- 4.0 (1 review)
What to expect
How 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 guide for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon.
The audiobook 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.
The 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.
(p) 2019 Octopus Publishing Group
User Reviews
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Narration 4.0
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A powerful narrative exploring the role of museums and galleries to collect, store and display objects with complicated history of colonialism, appropriation racism and the many gaps, people lost, forgot eroded from time and history.
This book made me stop, think and reflect about the way I connect with art and antiquities to look at what’s not shared or discussed.avidreader 2026-03-17
Details
- Author
- Alice Procter
- Narrator
- Alice Procter
- Duration
- 7 hours 35 minutes
- Release Date
- 19 March 2020
- ISBN
- 9781788402316
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Octopus
- Genre
- Colonialism and imperialism, National liberation and independence, History of art, Forgery, falsification and theft of artworks
- Rating
- 4.0(1 review)
- Narration
- 4.0(1 review)
Synopsis
Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonize' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?How 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 guide for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. The audiobook 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.The 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.(p) 2019 Octopus Publishing Group
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