No discussion of the Parthenon Sculptures would be complete without talking about the British Museum Act 1963 and its notorious Provision 5(1)(c). Anyone seriously interested in the fate of these sculptures and in the resolution of this issue must confront the reality of this law and what constraints it imposes on us.
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The Parthenon Report: The Crime and The Criminal (Part 2)
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that we’ve driven them out of their temples,
doesn’t mean at all that the gods are dead.
– IONIAN, Constantine Cavafy
PART 2: MOTIVE MATTERS
“The plans for my house in Scotland should be known to you… The Hall is intended to be adorned with columns… If each column were different…I should think the effect would be admirable, but perhaps better if there were two of each kind. In either case I should wish to collect as much marble as possible. I have other places in my house which need it… You do not need any prompting from me to know the value that is attached to a sculptured marble or historic piece.”
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The Parthenon Report: Shifting paradigms and a New Era
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that we’ve driven them out of their temples,
doesn’t mean at all that the gods are dead.
– IONIAN, Constantine Cavafy
In 1962, Thomas Kuhn published his masterwork “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions”, which presented the revolutionary idea that periodic and rather sudden “paradigm shifts” provide whole new ways of understanding things that we have never considered before. He also stated that there are often competing paradigms in circulation – irreconcilable accounts of reality with one account necessarily replacing its predecessor. Consider for example the radical ideas of the earth revolving around the sun, of equal rights for all human beings, or that humans evolved over millions of years and was not created in just six days.