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Regulating Indiana Jones.

Publication: Regulation
Publication Date: 22-MAR-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
WHO OWNS ANTIQUITY? Museums and the Battle over Our Ancient Heritage

By James Cuno

228 pages; Princeton, 2008

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Those who read Who Owns Antiquity? hoping for the answer to its titular question will come away unsatisfied. The book makes one sweeping, unenforceable claim of a common artistic inheritance that doesn't come close to settling the issue. It comes near the end, when author James Cuno writes of his transformative visit to the Louvre in Paris. He found that he could identify with the many ancient exhibits "as exquisite works of human manufacture. There was no sense that they belonged to anyone. They were works of art, no more anyone's property than the great ideas that have come down to us over the centuries. They weren't in any meaningful way possessible."

Oh, horseradish. Obviously they were, and are, "possessible." Museums have alarms and security guards for...



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