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Monastery and Museum in Mustang and Ladakh (2024)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C., & Tythacott, L. (2024). Monastery and Museum in Mustang and Ladakh. In C. Luczanits, & L. Tythacott (Eds.), Tibetan Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues (24-85). Vajra Books

Introduction (2024)
Book Chapter
Luczanits, C., & Tythacott, L. (2024). Introduction. In C. Luczanits, & L. Tythacott (Eds.), Tibetan Monastery Collections and Museums: Traditional Practices and Contemporary Issues (13-25). Vajra Books

From Songlines to Transvangarde: contemporary Indigenous Australian art at two private galleries in London, 1988-2020 (2024)
Thesis
Ahmad, A. From Songlines to Transvangarde: contemporary Indigenous Australian art at two private galleries in London, 1988-2020. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

This thesis explores what, precisely, constitutes the criterion of quality applied by the individual and collective Directors at the Rebecca Hossack Gallery (RHG) and the October Gallery (OG) in London in the assessment of a work of art. The purpose... Read More about From Songlines to Transvangarde: contemporary Indigenous Australian art at two private galleries in London, 1988-2020.

The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen statues (2021)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L., Chea, S., & Muong, C. (2021). The Looting of Koh Ker and the Return of the Prasat Chen statues. In L. Tythacott, & P. Ardiyansyah (Eds.), Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution (62-86). NUS Press

Collecting and Returning Southeast Asia’s Past (2021)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L., & Ardiyansyah, P. (2021). Collecting and Returning Southeast Asia’s Past. In L. Tythacott, & P. Ardiyansyah (Eds.), Returning Southeast Asia's Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution (1-37). NUS Press

Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. (2021)
Book
Tythacott, L., & Ardiyansyah, P. (Eds.). (2021). Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution. NUS Press

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from the region to museums and private collections around the world. Today, however, power relations are shift... Read More about Returning Southeast Asia’s Past: Objects, Museums, and Restitution..

Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar (2020)
Thesis
Tan, H. Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Gifts have been accumulated, stored and displayed at sacred sites in Myanmar for millennia as they have elsewhere within the Buddhist world. This thesis is the first attempt to analyse the phenomenon known as the ‘pagoda museum’ that existed since at... Read More about Meritorious Curating and the Renewal of Pagoda Museums in Myanmar.

The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects (2018)
Book Chapter
Tythacott, L. (2018). The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects. In L. Tythacott (Ed.), Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France (3-24). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113395-1

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book examines the movements and shifting meanings attached to Yuanmingyuan artefacts. The Yuanmingyuan was one of the most important pal... Read More about The Yuanmingyuan and its Objects.

"True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain (2018)
Book Chapter
Pierson, S. (2018). "True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain. In L. Tythacott (Ed.), Collecting and Displaying China's "Summer Palace" in the West. The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France (72-86). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113395-5

This chapter considers how the novelty of the Yuanmingyuan objects was received and conceived of by collectors shortly after the 1860 aggression. It explores how these new objects were incorporated into a developing canon of "Chinese" things, particu... Read More about "True Beauty of Form and Chaste Embellishment": Summer Palace Loot and Chinese Porcelain Collecting in Nineteenth-century Britain.

Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France (2017)
Book
Tythacott, L. (Ed.). (2017). Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315113395

In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted o... Read More about Collecting and Displaying China's 'Summer Palace' in the West: The Yuanmingyuan in Britain and France.

Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches (2014)
Book
Tythacott, L., & Arvanitis, K. (Eds.). (2014). Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches. Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315596495

This book examines contemporary approaches to restitution from the perspective of museums. It focuses on the ways in which these institutions have been addressing the subject at a regional, national and international level. In particular, it explores... Read More about Museums and Restitution: New Practices, New Approaches.