The Whole Picture av Alice Procter

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<p><b>''Probing, jargon-free and written with the pace of a detective story... [Procter] dissects western museum culture with such forensic fury that it might be difficult for the reader ever to view those institutions in the same way again.''</b><i>Financial Times </i><br><br><b>''A smart, accessible and brilliantly structured work that encourages readers to go beyond the grand architecture of cultural institutions and see the problematic colonial histories behind them.'' </b>Sumaya Kassim<br><br>***<br><br><b>Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to ''decolonize'' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?</b><br><br>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. <b>Alice Procter, creator of the Uncomfortable Art Tours</b>, provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of