The whole picture : the colonial story of the art in our museums & why we need to talk about it / by Alice Procter

Includes endnotes, bibliography and an index

'[Atrocities] prove...that colonial activity, colonial enterprise, colonial conquest, which is based on contempt for the native and justified by that contempt, inevitably tends to change him who undertakes it; that the colonizer, who in order to ease his conscience gets into the habit of seeing the other man as an animal, accustoms himself to treating him like an animal, and tends objectively to transform himself into an animal. It is this result, this boomerang effect of colonization, that i wanted to point out'' Aimé Césaire, In "Discourse on Colonialism"

In The Whole Picture, art historian and Uncomfortable Art Tour guide Alice Procter provides a manual for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art, and fills in the blanks with the stories that have been left out of the art history canon for centuries. Should museums be made to give back their marbles? Is it even possible to 'decolonise' our galleries? Must Rhodes fall?

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