Research Catalog

Title

Antiquity on display : regimes of the authentic in Berlin's Pergamon Museum / Can Bilsel.

Author

Bilsel, Can.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

xvii, 281 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Classical presences

Uniform Title

Classical presences.

Subjects

• Archaeological museums and collections
• Pergamum (Extinct city)
• Museum architecture > Designs and plans
• Pergamonmuseum (Berlin, Germany)
• Bergama (Turkey) > Antiquities
• Museum techniques
• Antiquities > Collection and preservation
• Archaeology > Philosophy
• Archaeological museums and collections > Germany > Berlin

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-268) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Space and relief in the Pergamon Room ; the original and its double ; On the museum's context: historical monument or a décor? ; A critical biography of the spaces in the museum ; Hegemonies and the longe durée -- No place like Greece: Berlin's Museum Island and the architectures of history : Karl Friedrich Schinkel's A view of Greece in its prime ; Greece: from a trope to a terriroire ; The destination of antiquities: what the museum lacks ; 'All men will be brothers'? Bildung and the vocation of the museum ; The world seen through an Ionic window: the Altes Museum ; The Neues Museum: a tower or a tree? -- Reconstructing Pergamon: antique fragments, modern visions : Marbles lost and found: Carl Humann in Bergama ; The problem of the frieze: tectonic or painterly? ; The Pergamon Panorama: urban visions for Prussia and France ; Temple inside a temple: the first Pergamon Museum by Fritz Wolff -- A museum for the empire: the problem of style : Sculpting the void: Alfred Messel's project for the Museum Island ; The fin-de-siècle critique: redeemer-art ; Art versus ethnology: taxonomies of an empire ; Wilhelm Gode's style rooms: the original setting and the bourgeois intérior -- Reconstructing Babylon: the return of the Archaic : Transgressing Bilderverbot: back to Babylon ; Prussia's Assyria: in search of an organic essence ; The lion of Babylon in the age of the work of art ; Symbol, ornament, art: figures of the counter-enlightenment -- Architecture in the museum: monuments of a mass spectacle : The altar and its frames ; Berlin's museum war ; A total vision: Theodor Wiegand's 'living people's museum' ; Reproductions without originals? -- Epilogue : Regimes of the authentic : The master of the copies ; The rank and file: bureaucracies of the authentic ; Tableaux vivants: performing the aura.

Call Number

JFE 12-7775

ISBN

• 9780199570553 (hardback)
• 0199570558 (hardback)

LCCN

2012001119

OCLC

773811619

Author

Bilsel, Can.

Title

Antiquity on display : regimes of the authentic in Berlin's Pergamon Museum / Can Bilsel.

Imprint

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.

Series

Classical presences

Classical presences.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-268) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 12-7775