Antiquity on Display
Regimes of the Authentic in Berlin's Pergamon Museum
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 19 July 2012
- ISBN 9780199570553
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages308 pages
- Size 240x169x21 mm
- Weight 693 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 99 in text illustrations and 8 colour plates 0
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Short description:
Antiquity on Display offers an insight into the history of the imaginative reproductions of architecture housed in Berlin's Pergamon Museum and the shifting regimes of the authentic in museum displays from the nineteenth century to the present.
MoreLong description:
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.
Antiquity on Display is another fine addition to OUP's Classical Presences series and is highly recommended not just for scholars interested in the reception of antiquity in 18th- and 19th-century Germany, but, thanks to its accessible style, also for anyone planning to visit Berlin.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Plates
Introduction
No place like Greece: Berlin s Museum Island and architectures of history
Reconstructing Pergamon: Antique fragments and modern visions
Berlin s imperial museum: The problem of style
Reconstructing Babylon: The return of the archaic
Architecture in the Museum: Monuments for a Mass Spectacle
Epilogue: Regimes of the authentic Bibliography
Index
