OD DEJÍN UMENIA K VIZUÁLNEJ KULTÚRE? PRÍKLAD BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART V NEW YORKU

• Authors: Mária Orišková

Title variants

EN

Art history or visual culure? A case study of Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The case study of Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York is an attempt to discuss the issue of multiculturalism in art museums traditionally based on universalistic (Western) aesthetics. The story of Western art which once was central for the museum is now more complicated by the addition of non-Western art/objects. However, one of the biggest American museums - Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York goes beyond the polarities 'high art' vs. 'ethnographic object' showing the hybrid culture as the result of colonialism, migration, slavery, diaspora, conflicts or oppression. The authoress summarizes some important views at relations between art and ethnicity what is one of the main concerns in the museums in multicultural society, presented by Svetlana Alpers, James Clifford or Susan Vogel. Dismantling 'true representations' in the museum opened new issues: the issue of parallelisms and horizontal surveys, both promoted by Homi Bhabha as cultural paradigm during the exhibition 'Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration'. Hybridity, the term used by Annie E. Coombes is articulated as a symptom of what is identified as postcolonial in a sense of the postmodern strategy of bricolage superficially reproducing and celebratory affirming that all are equal. Still, under the cover of celebration (and fast-food like consumption) of differences there is the inequality of access to economic and political power. And only the dominant groups articulate the ways in which such differences are constituted.

Keywords

EN

ETHNOGRAPHY; MUSEOLOGY; POSTCOLONIALISM; BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART; NEW YORK

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Institute of History of Art, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: ARS
• Year: 2005
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 42-52
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Mária Orišková

• M. Oriskova, Katedra teórie a dejin umenia VSVU, Hviezdoslavovo nám. 18, 814 37 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

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06SKAAAA00691735