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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"looted"”.
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Materialising Power: The Role of looted European Cultural Objects in Nazi Elite Self-fashioning
… examines how Nazi elites instrumentalised looted cultural objects as tools of power, ideology, and self-fashioning. It argues that looting was not a by-product of war but a deliberate strategy central to Nazi cultural policy, disguising theft as legality while reinforcing the regime’s …
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A discussion of the influence of antiquty in the art and architecture produced during the reign of emperor Napoleon 1st
… The first chapter considers the presentation of looted artwork in the Louvre. How specific ancient statues were displayed is explored in relation to Napoleon’s imperial dreams and French society’s Republican and subsequently Imperial redefinition. The second chapter studies the impact of the …
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A Safe House for Orphan Parts an Architectural Proposal for a US Center for Illicit Antiquities
… are a wildly varying group of rescues. These looted “parts” become displaced from their site or museum context and either disappear into private collections or spend years in government facilities awaiting repatriation. In parallel globally and in the United States, the means and methods of …
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Ancient Maya Afterlife Iconography: Traveling Between Worlds
… or from artifacts with no context, likely looted items. Both sources of information can be problematic and can skew interpretations. Cosmological tales documented after the Spanish invasion show evidence of the religious conversion that was underway. Noncontextual artifacts are often …
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Postconflict Community Development in Sierra Leone: Western, Cultural, and National Influences
… civilians, burned down crops and villages, and looted homes and community structures in a quest to overturn the long-corrupt government. Since 2002 communities have begun the process of developing toward a sustainable peace. Using grounded theory and inductive analysis, this qualitative research …
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What’s in a Poche?
… begin to actively take a stance on unearthing looted cultural properties and responding to repatriation requests. Through the design of architectural moments that allow artifacts to covertly emerge from and disappear into the poche, the project addresses the issue of repatriation, and imagines …
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SAMO©... Pedro Kilkerry, Jean-Michel Basquiat, das pilhagens ou o modus da crítica
… their “consecrations”, that is to say, looted their experiences. Generally speaking, critique approaches of these artists has taken place mainly under two lines of analysis, which I define in the dissertation as: the attempt to relate them to white artists, as a way of “giving coherence” …
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Past, Present, Future
Past, Present, Future is an immersive and interactive art installation that seeks to put displaced Congolese and African artwork - commonly displayed in world museums - into their original cultural context. The exhibit's immersive experience sheds light on the colonial exploitation of African …