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In 1801 a British nobleman stripped the Parthenon of many of its sculptures and took them to England. Controversy over their acquisition by the British Museum continues to this day. Was it preservation, or pillage?
The Yamatai Controversy Andonyama kofun – burial mound of Emperor Sujin Known in academia as“The Yamatai Controversy” , in the last century archaeologists and historians had two main contenders for the location of Yamatai. Kinki in the Yamato region of Japan and Northern Kyushu. However, an...
story of the Parthenon sculptures, or perhaps more correctly, many people have some knowledge of the story behind the Elgin Marbles & as such, each person has developed their own views on the sub- ject, their own idea of what is the correct view to take, of who is right & who is ...
I’ll continue to use the Elgin Marbles question because it provides a better example. My research question is: Did Lord Elgin’s contemporaries consider his acquisition of the Parthenon marbles legal? The keywords/phrases I developed are: “Elgin Marbles,” controversy, acquisition, legality, ...
The second meeting in a row to take place in an oil-rich state has naturally caused a high degree of controversy but more noticeable was the absence from the conference of leaders from most of the important power blocs in the world. The UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer was an outlier in ...
Manet instead exhibited at the Salon des Refuses where it sparked public notoriety and controversy. I don’t think it has anything whatsoever to do with prostitution and the scandalous reaction relates more to misinterpretation and the prudish moral climate of 19th century. Manet’s composition ...
This past September the Beijing-based artist, never one to shy from controversy, posted on his Twitter account photographs of himself in a German hospital being treated for head injuries sustained during an encounter with Chinese police preventing him from testifying at an activist’s trial. ...
Fun fact: Hornblower’s implied sexual encounter with a Russian Countess caused controversy when the story first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. * George Orwell’s dystopian talking-animal adventure Animal Farm. After the pigs Snowball and Napoleon lead a revolution against the drunken farmer...
Behind the Breath ‘Fear is excitement without breath’ is a famous quote by one of the founders of Gestalt Therapy, Fritz Perls. His partner, Laura Perls, arguably, had a major influence on the birth and development of this therapeutic modality, particularly in its focus on embodied work. ...