Robert Wallis & Tiffany Jow review the Journey through the Afterlife exhibit at the British Museum for Aesthetica Magazine

12/01/2011

In a lecture given in 1949, the British Museum director Sir John Forsdyke advocated against the sensational exhibitions he saw the institution beginning to embrace:

“The important consideration is this: do these sensational exhibits induce people to take an interest in something better?"...

For the full article, visit www.aestheticamagazine.blogspot.com

Dr Robert J. Wallis is Professor of Visual Culture and Director of the MA in Art History, and Tiffany Jow is a candidate for the MA in Art History; both are at Richmond the American International University in London.

Journey through the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead continues until 6 March, 2011. www.britishmuseum.org

Link to this page: http://www.richmond.ac.uk/n/1025.aspx