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Manchester University Press Connoisseurs and Conmen: The Contest for Cultural Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Britain

Name: Connoisseurs and Conmen: The Contest for Cultural Authority in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Brand: Manchester University Press
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This book examines John Hilditch (1872-1930), a notorious collector of Chinese art who lied, hoaxed and manipulated in his struggle against museum experts to become a cultural authority. Previously overlooked as a pest with a dubious collection, this book uses Hilditch to interrogate how far the monumental social, cultural and political changes of the early twentieth century unsettled social and cultural hierarchies and how these hierarchies were remade. It shows how the cultural elites were forced to engage with the public and re-draw the boundaries of citizenship, expertise and high and low culture in response to unprecedented social mobility, the democratisation of culture and politics, as well as the effects of British imperialism which brought ordinary Britons access to antiquities as well as confidence to claim expertise over foreign cultures. The book will interest social and cultural historians of Modern Britain, museum scholars and art historians. -- .

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Brand: Manchester University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1526177390
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Exhibition & Collection Catalogs > Museums
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 28 April 2026
Listed Since: 11 June 2025

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