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| Object Lessons: The Politics of Preservation and Museum Building in Western China in the Early Twentieth Century | ||
| 作者 | Balachandran, Sanchita |
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| 出處題名 | International Journal of Cultural Property |
| 卷期 | v.14 |
| 出版日期 | 2007 |
| 頁次 | 1 - 32 |
| 出版者 | Cambridge University Press |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.cambridge.org/uk |
| 出版地 | Cambridge, UK [劍橋, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English; 法文=French |
| 摘要 | The preservation of cultural property is never a neutral activity; and the question of who is to possess, care for, and interpret artifacts is highly politi-cally charged. This paper examines how preservation was used as a justification for the removal of pieces of immovable archaeological sites in the early twenti-eth century, and became a tool for building museum collections. This study fo-cuses on a collection of 12 wall painting fragments from the site of Dunhuang, China, which were removed by art historian Langdon Warner in 1924 for the Fogg Art Museum. The removal process resulted in significant damage to some of the fragments as well as to the site itself, calling into question what is pre-served: an intact ancient artifact or an ancient artifact scarred by and embedded with its modern collection history? Using the Harvard collection as an example, I explore the contradictions and legacies of early preservation ethics. |
| ISSN | 09407391 |
| 點閱次數 | 143 |
| 建檔日期 | 2015.09.03 |
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