ART 2233: Art in Life Repatriation and Art Smuggling Assignment For the written

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ART 2233: Art in Life Repatriation and Art Smuggling Assignment

For the written portion of the assignment, find your own news story about art smuggling and/or repatriation from a reputable news source online (The New York Times, Time magazine, etc.) and discuss it within the context of what you have learned in your assigned reading. If you are unsure if the news story you have chosen is appropriate, you may send me the link for approval. Your written assignment should include the following: 1. Summarize the issue of repatriation and/or art smuggling (depending on the topic of your news story) and what it means within the context of art objects. 2. Introduce the specific case of repatriation and/or art smuggling that you chose to read a news story about. Provide a link to the article. 3. Relate the case from your news story to what you read for this class and consider the consequences of works of art being removed from their places of origin. Why did you choose this news story to discuss? What have you learned about repatriation and/or art smuggling? What are the ramifications of works of art being removed from their places of origin?

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elongThe art is the heritage of the country, in olden days the sculpture, the paintings, and the carving on the wall, leaf or other available materials are the treasure of that time, it represents their culture, ceremonies, nature of worship, dressing sense and their deities.

With the passage of time the history of the world undergone many changes, the rulers changed and colonization took place with very invasion the culture of that country is destroyed or smuggled from one place to another.

The several museums they display different  antiques that do not belong to that countries, these antiques are actually representing the history and culture of some other country, for example, a part of Parthenon sculpture that is a broken piece of the original masterpiece was bought by Lord Elgin from the Greek government of that time, who found it unprotected and dirty and moved it to England with him.

Repatriation or smuggling of art is moving an article from one country to another that is prohibited by the law of land and requires a special permit. In the US the government reward with a large incentive if reported accurately about the art pieces being smuggled into the country without permit and illegally. It results in the seizure of the commodity if not declared properly.

The case in study is the monument of Patheon with the Greek government and the British Government, Lord Elgin who found it unprotected and dirty and moved it to England with him. The marble sculpture is around 200 years old it is part of the Parthenon temple, The Parthenon temple was built around 2500 years ago. The marble sculpture is around 200 years old it is part of the Parthenon temple, The Greek government is carrying out the restoration of the Parthenon temple, thus it wants all the fragmented part of the sculpture that scattered and kept with other museums too. The heads of a centaur and a human in a dramatic fight are in Athens and bodies are in London. The Greek government is asking for it to give back the glory back to the monuments by restoring it fully. The Greek government argues that it is illegally taken during the Turkish occupation and should be returned. The UK government maintains that it is bought from the regime of that time. Now, this is a complicated matter to establish whether brought legally or illegally.

I choose this story because in comparison I have read that those Egyptian monuments that are in the Metropolitan Museum and adorn it is being returned to the Egyptian government that contains 19 objects illegally taken from Tutankhamun's tomb during excavation. Metropolitan has helped the Egyptian government in finding out many illegally exported antiques to be returned to Egypt.

The of Parthenon sculpture without the head looks as if it is murdered. It is the culture of the society and its glorious art the smuggled articles are better to be returned to its origin.

In the universal surveys, it is established that the smuggling is happening due to corruption, in any form like bribing the official or hiding idols like an established case of Mr. Kapoor from India who was caught and jailed. He spans four continents in trying to untangle Kapoor’s network. he smuggled from India and south-east Asia to private collectors and major museums in the west.

There is one more point to be remembered is that some antiques are actually sold by poor people who had actually possed it from generation to generation in lieu of one square meal, those articles have landed into the private collection or in various museums mostly with western countries.

Not every antique can be returned to its homeland. But in a legal way whatever is possible and legitimate have to go back to its origin.in return like the Government offer and in lieu of it get other masterpieces in a rotation.

https://www.ft.com/content/0f48fa90-3cc9-11e8-b7e0-52972418fec4

https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Joukowsky_Institute/courses/worldofmuseums09/files/9704876.pdf

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