Decolonizing Collections: The Reception and Consumption of Classical Casts in Pedagogy in the British Empire

非殖民化收藏：大英帝国教育学中古典作品的接受和消费

• 批准号: 2737898
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University College London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2737898
• 关键词: Decolonizing; Collections; Reception; Consumption; Classical

This project aims at providing for the first time an important and much-needed historical insight into the import,dissemination and role of plaster casts from the antique, as teaching materials and means of faithful representations ofabsent classical works, in pedagogic collections and visual displays of the Indian subcontinent. No different to displaced or"stolen" artefacts in modern museums, casts of classical sculpture, when found in postcolonial environments, areinextricably connected to imperialism narratives: their use and display will illuminate the role of the diffusion of the westernideal in art - through the use of Greek and Roman sculptures - in the implementation of 19th and early 20th centuriescolonial/imperial cultural policies.The project will be based in the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum, one of the finest and best preserved in the UnitedKingdom, and one that is fully grounded in both the teaching culture and collecting practice that determined the set of caststo be sent abroad in 19th c. academia. It will benefit from the interdisciplinary supervision of one of the world experts in thereception of Classical culture in India, and of the partnership with the collection of casts of the Faculty of Visual Arts of theUniversity of Performing and Visual Arts at Colombo (Sri Lanka). It will ultimately have a major impact on initiatives in thedecolonization of both the Ashmolean's collections and the Classics curriculum, and insert an often-neglected category ofmuseum objects into current international debates on colonialism, imperialism and nationalism.

该项目旨在第一次提供一个重要的和急需的历史洞察进口，传播和作用的石膏模型从古董，作为教学材料和手段，忠实地代表缺席的经典作品，在教学收藏和视觉展示的印度次大陆。与现代博物馆中被转移或“被盗”的文物没有什么不同，当在后殖民环境中发现古典雕塑时，它们与帝国主义叙事密不可分：它们的使用和展示将阐明西方艺术在艺术中的传播作用-通过使用希腊和罗马雕塑-在19世纪和20世纪初的殖民/该项目将设在阿什莫林博物馆的铸造画廊，这是英国最好和保存最好的博物馆之一，它完全植根于教学文化和收集实践，这些文化和实践决定了19世纪被送往国外的铸造。学术界它将受益于印度古典文化接受方面的一位世界专家的跨学科监督，以及与科隆博（斯里兰卡）表演和视觉艺术大学视觉艺术学院的合作。它最终将对阿什莫尔博物馆藏品和经典课程的非殖民化举措产生重大影响，并将一个经常被忽视的博物馆物品类别插入当前关于殖民主义，帝国主义和民族主义的国际辩论中。