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Tastemakers, ‘Foreign Merchants’ and the Making of the V&A’s Islamic Art Collection.

Alyson Wharton · 2020

Catalogue summary

The V&A’s dealings with Krikor Minassian, Hagop Kevorkian, and Dikran Kelekian reveal how museum staff used suspicion, social control, and financial interest toward Armenian dealers.

Why this matters

Their Ottoman displacement and collecting careers expose a power relationship that extends the museum’s colonial analysis to institutional treatment of foreign merchants.

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Published in
Museum and Society
Year
2020
Language
English
DOI
10.29311/mas.v18i2.2369

Citation

Alyson Wharton 2020. Tastemakers, ‘Foreign Merchants’ and the Making of the V&A’s Islamic Art Collection.. Museum and Society. https://doi.org/10.29311/mas.v18i2.2369

Topics

Language, literature, and translationArchaeology, art, and material culture

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