title: This obscure object of desire: object, photography, museum and damaged churches
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metadata.value: Ananiev, Vitaly
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Katsaridou, Iro
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2019-04-03T11:04:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2019-04-03T11:04:59Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/spbu19.2018.201
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/15436
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper focuses on a collection of photographs recently (2016) donated to the Museum of
  Byzantine Culture of Thessaloniki, Greece, by Georges Kiourtzian, a Byzantine scholar associated with
  the College de France in Paris. The 17 mounted silver-prints date from the October Revolution of 1917 and
  portray the destruction by bombardments of churches and other monuments in the Kremlin, Moscow. Once
  part of the archive of Thomas Whittemore, the American Byzantine scholar, the photographs were discarded
  by the Byzantine Library in Paris, only to be collected by Georges Kiourtzian and then to find their way
  to the collection of the Museum of Byzantine Culture.
  This paper sheds light on the complicated itinerary of those photographs: from their production as
  documentation, to their use as propaganda material, to the Byzantine Library and their eventual discarding,
  and finally to their new life as museum artefacts in the Museum of Byzantine Culture. The disputed narratives
  of the photographs are revealed, along with challenges and potentials that reorganization and integration
  in this recent museum presents for unravelling contested dynamics of the collection.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Studia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana;Issue 2(24)
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: thing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: object
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: photography
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: rubbish theory
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: biography of object
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: This obscure object of desire: object, photography, museum and damaged churches
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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resources.url: https://dspace.spbu.ru/bitstream/11701/15436/1/01-Ananiev.pdf
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