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Essay. Cultural property: a museum director's perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2005

GD Lowry
GD Lowry
Affiliation:
Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019-5498, USA
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Extract

This essay explores a number of issues concerning the relationship between works of art and cultural property. From the perspective of a museum director, it posits an ontological distinction between the idea of a work of art and the concept of cultural property. The essay concludes by arguing that to the extent that nations place restrictions on the export of their art, they inevitably affect the way their culture is understood and perceived abroad and so alter the larger metanarrative of culture.

Type
Research Article
Information
International Journal of Cultural Property , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , January 1998 , pp. 438 - 445
Copyright
© The International Cultural Property Society

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