Culture as Scandal: The Hermitage Story
Author:   Geraldine Norman ,  Mikhail Piotrovsky
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
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9781848225633


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   24 January 2023
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Geraldine Norman ,  Mikhail Piotrovsky
Publisher:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Imprint:   Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
ISBN:  

9781848225633


ISBN 10:   1848225636
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   24 January 2023
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Postponed Indefinitley
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

Table of Contents

Preface; Introduction to the Hermitage; Chapter 1: The History of Scandal; Chapter 2: Opening to the World; Chapter 3: Fighting over New Art; Chapter 4: Restitution; Chapter 5: Construction and Corruption; Chapter 6: Sales and Purchases; Chapter 7: Thefts; Chapter 8: Fluctuating Attributions; Chapter 9: Political Aftertaste of Scandal; Chapter 10: The Pandemic and After; Notes; Bibliography; Acknowledgements; Index

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Mikhail Piotrovsky has been Director of the State Hermitage Museum since 1992. He is also Chairman of the Association of the Museums of Russia and a long-serving member of the President's Council on Culture. An Islamic scholar, he is head of the Oriental Department of St Petersburg University. Geraldine Norman is a former journalist with The Times and the Independent and the author of The Hermitage: The Biography of a Great Museum (1997). She was briefly the Director of the Hermitage Rooms at Somerset House (2000-2001) and subsequently founded and ran, until 2020, the UK Friends of the Hermitage..

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