James Cuno And Parthenon Marbles

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.

James cuno and parthenon marbles. Cuno has no beef with returning stolen art. Hitchens cuno debate the fate of the parthenon marbles arts. It is also a question of national identity. Should they be returned to greece.

But of course it would. We have learnt not to call them the parthenon marbles. James cuno will be a familiar figure to long time readers of this blog. Ownership necessarily betrays historical balances of power says james cuno art curator historian and president and ceo of the getty trust.

Instead his article focuses on what he considers to be an entirely different class of ancient objects that includes the parthenon marbles. 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. 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. The debate surrounding the parthenon marbles is about more than just repatriation.

Jul 31 2009 3 18 pm edt. We have our own debate with james cuno the president and director of the art institute of. He tells only part of the. What cuno writes about the parthenon marbles and about nefertiti can be easily ignored.

The case for restitution watch the debate here. Christopher hitchens has just released a revised updated edition of his book on the parthenon sculptures. A getty spokeswoman said cuno s article which criticizes unesco was commissioned quite some time ago and not spurred by recent parthenon marbles developments which also include george. Cuno scoffs at athens insistence that returning the marbles would restore the unity of the parthenon.

Museums and the battle over ancient heritage and christopher hitchens columnist for vanity fair and author of the book the parthenon marbles. The promise of muse. 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.