John Pedro Schwartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 9185447 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Pedro Schwartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Pedro |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWARTZ J P |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World
Contents: Introduction: challenges and directions in an emerging field of research, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz Part I Local Representations of Modernity: Collecting the nation: lexicography and national pedagogy in al-nahda al-'arabiya, Nadia Bou Ali Between looters and private collectors: the tragic fate of Lebanese antiquities, Helene Sader Tawfik Canann - collectionneur par excellence: the story behind the Palestinian amulet …
TransLatin Joyce
TransLatin Joyce
In a near-perfect convergence of international academic and market interests, middlebrow and highbrow print cultures, modernist and postmodernist aesthetics, Cold War hegemonies and decolonization struggles, and cosmopolitan and postcolonial agendas, James Joyce became a key point of reference in the writings of Iberian and Ibero-American pre-boom, boom, and post-boom authors. TransLatin Joyce proposes new ways of addressing the following questio…
To Help the Nation to Save Its Soul”
In a 1927 lecture the Director of the British Museum Sir Frederic Kenyon countered the futurist leader F. T. Marinetti's calls for the destruction of museums by arguing that “in times of upheaval . . . salvation is to be found in adherence to tradition” rather than in “break[ing] loose from” it. Kenyon explained the museum's role in promoting this salvation: A visit to a museum will not by itself quench a revolution. It would have been useless to…
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To Help the Nation to Save Its Soul”
In a 1927 lecture the Director of the British Museum Sir Frederic Kenyon countered the futurist leader F. T. Marinetti's calls for the destruction of museums by arguing that “in times of upheaval . . . salvation is to be found in adherence to tradition” rather than in “break[ing] loose from” it. Kenyon explained the museum's role in promoting this salvation: A visit to a museum will not by itself quench a revolution. It would have been useless to…
TransLatin Joyce
TransLatin Joyce
In a near-perfect convergence of international academic and market interests, middlebrow and highbrow print cultures, modernist and postmodernist aesthetics, Cold War hegemonies and decolonization struggles, and cosmopolitan and postcolonial agendas, James Joyce became a key point of reference in the writings of Iberian and Ibero-American pre-boom, boom, and post-boom authors. TransLatin Joyce proposes new ways of addressing the following questio…
Archives, Museums and Collecting Practices in the Modern Arab World
Contents: Introduction: challenges and directions in an emerging field of research, Sonja Mejcher-Atassi and John Pedro Schwartz Part I Local Representations of Modernity: Collecting the nation: lexicography and national pedagogy in al-nahda al-'arabiya, Nadia Bou Ali Between looters and private collectors: the tragic fate of Lebanese antiquities, Helene Sader Tawfik Canann - collectionneur par excellence: the story behind the Palestinian amulet …
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Arab countries (1 work) · Archaeological Research and Protection (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Archives (1 work) · Archivistique (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Art History and Market Analysis (1 work) · Classics (1 work)