This volume collects the viewpoints of the speakers of the International Symposium held on 28 and 29 May 2018 in Turin, following the opening of the exhibition “Statues Also Die”.
The conference was attended by scholars from different disciplinary and artistic areas, engaged in a critical discussion on the destruction and preservation of material culture in the past as well as in more recent times. These chronologically and geographically widespread phenomena are examined here through the lenses of archaeology, history, contemporary art, sociology, anthropology, and museology.
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Introduction
Christian Greco
Reflection on the Exhibition Anche le statue muoiono
Caterina Cioccopiedi, Paolo Del Vesco
Muslim, Christian or British? Iconoclasm Under Every Sky
Salvatore Settis
Nineveh Is Dead. Long Live Babylon!
Simonetta Graziani
Shadow Sites
An interview with Jananne Al-Ani by Cécile Bourne Farrell
Political Destructions and the Long 19th-Century: Cases from the American Revolution to pre–WW I Europe
Arianna Arisi Rota
Deliberating Destruction to Archaeological Landscapes in the Konya Plain, Turkey
Christoph Bachhuber
“Lost in astonishment”: Palmyra in the Eyes of the West
Maria Teresa Grassi
Anche le statue rivivono – Statues Can Also Come Back to Life
Hourig Sourouzian
The Birth, Fall, and Renaissance of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad: Politics and Propaganda vs. Archaeology and Enhancement in Modern Iraq
Carlo Lippolis
Nation Building, Universal History and the Antiquities Market: from ancient Egypt to the 21st century Arabian Gulf
Karen Exell
Final Remarks
Elena Calandra
