James Cuno And Parthenon Marbles

Instead his article focuses on what he considers to be an entirely different class of ancient objects that includes the parthenon marbles.

James cuno and parthenon marbles.

We have our own debate with james cuno the president and director of the art institute of. Christopher hitchens has just released a revised updated edition of his book on the parthenon sculptures. The works of phidias were completed in 432 b c but it might be argued that the parthenon marbles were created in 1687 when that shell turned the parthenon into a husk and many of its. We have our own debate with james cuno the president and director of the art institute of chicago and author of the recent book who owns antiquity.

He tells only part of the. Jul 31 2009 3 18 pm edt. James cuno will be a familiar figure to long time readers of this blog. As any who have read this book will know it takes pretty much the opposite viewpoint to james cuno s new book on the ownership of cultural property.

Unlike the churches and mosques that foreign powers built on the acropolis which were subsequently removed by the newly independent greek government the marbles are physically integral to the parthenon itself. Cuno has no beef with returning stolen art. The debate surrounding the parthenon marbles is about more than just repatriation. The promise of muse.

What cuno writes about the parthenon marbles and about nefertiti can be easily ignored. But of course it would. It is also a question of national identity. Cuno scoffs at athens insistence that returning the marbles would restore the unity of the parthenon.

Hitchens cuno debate the fate of the parthenon marbles arts. Museums and the battle over ancient heritage and christopher hitchens columnist for vanity fair and author of the book the parthenon marbles. Ownership necessarily betrays historical balances of power says james cuno art curator historian and president and ceo of the getty trust. Representing the anti restitution side of the museum establishment in the usa he has been one of the most outspoken critics of the return of artefacts.

The case for restitution watch the debate here. James cuno has personal experience of the current scramble empowered by aggressive nationalism to claw back a multitude of. Almost half the sculpted marbles on the parthenon were taken by lord elgin ambassador to constantinople in the early 1800s and soon after sold james cuno whose culture.