Tastemakers, ‘Foreign Merchants’ and the Making of the V&A’s Islamic Art Collection.
The relationship of the V&A with three dealers, Krikor Minassian, Hagop Kevorkian and Dikran Kelekian, proffering goods from the Ottoman Empire they had recently fled, provides an interesting case study for viewing asymmetries of power in the 20th-century art world. Referred to by museum staff a...
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University of Leicester
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Museum & Society |
| Online Access: | https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/mas/article/view/2369 |