The Whole Picture The colonial story of the art in our museums and why we need to talk about it 1st edition by Alice Procter ISBN 1788401557 9781788401555

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ISBN 10:    1788401557
ISBN 13: 978-1788401555
Author:   Alice Procter

If you think art history has to be pale, male and stale – think again.
Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to ‘decolonise’ our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?
From the stolen Wakandan art in Black Panther, to Emmanuel Macron’s recent commitment to art restitution, and Beyoncé and Jay Z’s provocative music video filmed in the Louvre, the question of decolonising our relationship with the art around us is quickly gaining traction. People are waking up to the seedy history of the world’s art collections, and are starting to ask difficult questions about what the future of museums should look like.
In The Whole Picture, art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries.
The book is divided into four chronological sections, named after four different kinds of art space:
The Palace
The Classroom
The Memorial
The Playground
Each section tackles the fascinating and often shocking stories of five different art pieces, including the propaganda painting that the East India Company used to justify its control in India; the Maori mokomokai skulls that were traded and collected by Europeans as ‘art objects’; and Kara Walker’s controversial contemporary sculpture A Subtlety, which raised questions about ‘appropriate’ interactions with art. Through these stories, Alice brings out the underlying colonial narrative lurking beneath the art industry today, and suggests different ways of seeing and thinking about art in the modern world.

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.

The Whole Picture The colonial story of the art in our museums and why we need to talk about it 1st Table of contents:

Part Summaries

Part I—The Palace: In this section, Procter describes a type of gallery space—the “Palace”

Chapter I: Vases and Attitudes 

Chapter 4: An Offering, 

Part II—The Classroom: In this section, Procter explores spaces that are more concerned with cataloging than with personal curation, such as fairs and the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations’ (held in London in 1851)

Chapter 11: The Shield 

Part III—The Memorial: Procter describes the Memorial as “a place of commemoration, and often of grief.

Chapter 13: Mokomokai

Chapter 14: Mining the Museum 

Chapter 16: The Coffin 

Part IV: The Playground:

Chapter 17: Museum Highlights 

Chapter 19: The Ship

Chapter 20: Sugar Baby 

Impressions

The Whole Picture is a fantastic introduction to how society may reconsider objects that art and cultural institutions hold within their collections and how these objects strengthen specific narratives at the expense of others. Procter challenges her readers to take a deeper look at museum practices and their role in perpetuating racist views through curatorial decisions that are often skewed by political, historical, and personal biases. The book’s discussion on the removal of colonial monuments is also timely considering the renewed wave of civil rights movement in the United States and other parts of the world.

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