La storia del mondo in 100 oggetti View By Neil MacGregor
| Title | : | La storia del mondo in 100 oggetti |
| Author | : | Neil MacGregor |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 706 pages |
| ISBN | : | 8845927431 |
Se il tentativo di restituire un periodo o un personaggio storico attraverso una mostra ha sempre qualcosa dell azzardo, per l idea di raccontare la storia della civilt umana sulla Terra attraverso 100 oggetti da una pietra da taglio abbandonata in Tanzania due milioni di anni fa a una carta di credito islamica emessa nel 2009 mancano le definizioni Eppure Neil MacGr Se il tentativo di restituire un periodo o un personaggio storico attraverso una mostra ha sempre qualcosa dell azzardo, per l idea di raccontare la storia della civilt umana sulla Terra attraverso 100 oggetti da una pietra da taglio abbandonata in Tanzania due milioni di anni fa a una carta di credito islamica emessa nel 2009 mancano le defi ni zio ni Eppure Neil MacGregor non solo ha raccolto la sfida, ma le ha aggiunto un ulteriore gradiente di difficolt ha cio pensato di descrivere i 100 oggetti, tutti provenienti dalle collezioni del British Museum, alla ra dio, in altrettante puntate da un quarto d ora l una trasmesse tre anni fa dalla BBC Per far lo, ha sostituito alle immagini un numero e quivalente di storie, raccontate con la sua vo ce, ma anche lasciando la parola a una folla di studiosi, esperti, artisti Risultato Un successo enorme accom pagnato da discussioni accesissime su ogni media possibile, e persino da scommesse su quale sarebbe stato il prossimo oggetto in cluso , che ha incoraggiato MacGregor a trasformare tutto il materiale trasmesso in ci che, in filigrana, era gi questo libro Che adesso si pu aprire come un enciclo pedia, leggere come un romanzo, o visitare come una Wunderkammer un perso nalissimo museo portatile da percorrere una stanza dopo l altra, seguendo le connessioni che la nostra eccezionale guida di volta in volta ci indica, oppure stabilendone di nostre, attraverso il tempo e lo spazio finch le rifrazioni di questa stupefacente macchina ottica non ci costringeranno a vedere anche il presente con occhi diversi
about Author
Neil MacGregor was born in Glasgow to two doctors, Alexander and Anna MacGregor At the age of nine, he first saw Salvador Dal s Christ of Saint John of the Cross, newly acquired by Glasgow s Kelvingrove Art Gallery, which had a profound effect on him and sparked his lifelong interest in art MacGregor was educated at Glasgow Academy and then read modern languages at New College, Oxford, where he Neil MacGregor was born in Glasgow to two doctors, Alexander and Anna MacGregor At the age of nine, he first saw Salvador Dal s Christ of Saint John of the Cross, newly acquired by Glasgow s Kelvingrove Art Gallery, which had a profound effect on him and sparked his lifelong interest in art MacGregor was educated at Glasgow Academy and then read modern languages at New College, Oxford, where he is now an honorary fellow The period that followed was spent studying philosophy at the cole Normale Sup rieure in Paris coinciding with the events of May 1968 , and as a law student at Edinburgh University, where he received the Green Prize Despite being called to the bar in 1972, MacGregor next decided to take an art history degree The following year, on a Courtauld Institute University of London summer school in Bavaria, the Courtauld s director Anthony Blunt spotted MacGregor and persuaded him to take a master s degree under his supervision Blunt later considered MacGregor the most brilliant pupil he ever taught.From 1975 to 1981, MacGregor taught History of Art and Architecture at the University of Reading He left to assume the editorship of The Burlington Magazine He oversaw the transfer of the magazine from the Thomson Corporation to an independent and charitable status.In 1987 MacGregor became a highly successful director of the National Gallery in London There he was dubbed Saint Neil , partly because of his popularity at that institution and partly because of his devout Christianity, and the nickname stuck after his departure from the Gallery During his directorship, MacGregor presented three BBC television series on art Painting the World in 1995, Making Masterpieces, a behind the scenes tour of the National Gallery, in 1997 and Seeing Salvation, on the representation of Jesus in western art, in 2000 He declined the offer of a knighthood in 1999, the first director of the National Gallery to do so.MacGregor was made director of the British Museum in August 2002, at a time when that institution was 5 million in deficit He has been lauded for his diplomatic approach to the post, though MacGregor rejects this description, stating that diplomat is conventionally taken to mean the promotion of the interests of a particular state and that is not what we are about at all He has vowed never to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, saying that it is the museum s duty to preserve the universality of the marbles, and to protect them from being appropriated as a nationalistic political symbol He did agree to discuss a loan of the marbles on the condition that Athens rejects all claims of ownership to them.In January 2008, MacGregor was appointed chairman of the World Collections programme, for training international curators at British museums The exhibition The First Emperor, focussing on Qin Shi Huang and including a small number of his Terracotta Warriors, was mounted in 2008 in the British Museum Reading Room That year MacGregor was invited to succeed Philippe de Montebello as the Director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York He declined the offer as the Metropolitan charges its visitors for entry and is thus not a public institution In 2010, MacGregor presented a series on BBC Radio 4 and the World Service entitled A History of the World in 100 Objects, based on objects from the British Museum s collection From September 2010 to January 2011 the British Museum lent the ancient Persian Cyrus Cylinder to an exhibition in Tehran This was seen by at least a million visitors by the Museum s estimation, than any loan exhibition to the United Kingdom had attracted since the Treasures of Tutankhamun exhibition in 1972 On 4 November 2010 MacGregor was appointed to the Order of Merit by Queen Elizabeth II.In July 2011, MacGregor spoke at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh about the Cyrus Cylinder and provided a concise summary of the role the artefact has played in Middle East pol 
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