Museum

Museum

Latin Mūsēum, from Greek Mouseion, shrine of the Muses, from Mouseios, of the Muses, from Mousa, Muse.

Principle

Pieces of art I have seen, where and when, in order to step back and make links between places and currents.

Pieces of art experienced

Research

  • Museum as Process by Carol S. Jeffers, The Journal of Aesthetic Education 2003
    • discussing the role of museums not as passive repository of pieces of art but also
      • "establishing an <<ideology of aesthetic autonomy [...]>>"
      • and that "present <<ideology in material form>>."
    • imperial pillages
    • uprooting the piece of art out of its context, in particular regarding its historical and geographical origins
    • Debord's The Society of the Spectacle and his notions of "spectacle", "commodifying", ...
    • "traditional Western theories of knowledge and aesthetics, whose primary focus is upon the individual <<knower as perceiver>>."
    • John Dewey's "spectator theory of knowledge"
    • Mary Jane Jacob's "process of institutionalization"
    • "reconceptualizing the museum, for example, as a free and open space in which diverse groups construct public and personal knowledge through processes of conversation and community. In this alternative, the public actively establishes and fulfills a new kind of educational mission as its museum."
    • "What is needed is the free and open space that allows for people to construct and contextualize meanings about art through the community-building process of dialogue."
    • "processes, which promote the movement of ideas and discourse among diverse community members, must flow from a constructivist epistemology that usually arises out of a pragmatist philosophy."

See also

To do

  • link to http://www.GoogleArtProject.com visited places
  • consider
    • history museum
    • historical places (like Greek ruins)
  • write down museum name and date of visits to gather a list of content
    • import exhibition name
  • eventually use Museum.Template? to create a page per museum
  • ask help from people I have visited museums with
    • in particular Lea and Gilbert
  • find a proper way to organize the notes made in each place
    • example at MOMA NYC, 20th November 2009 (inspired by a packed MOMA and a Tim Burton preview, invitation only)
      • the increase of quantity of pieces of art leads to an incapacity to integrate the news and thus require
      • better filters
        • more scalable, with a more efficient information organization
      • social stratification (vernissages, special exhibits, ...)
        • creating an "Art for the masses" and free session (first Sunday of each month)
          • leading to a different way to experience the artwork, a special context
            • Is this what the artist expected? Are those good conditions?
      • Can we expect one day to establish the EREOI of a painting? Is it what art auction (like Sothebys) is trying to accomplish?
      • Is there an aesthetics asymptote (independently of the progresses of technique) thus perpetually forcing "avant-guarde" to appear unpleasant?
    • gather notes from older visits
    • life itself can be a piece of art
      • in particular the quality of the thinking process
      • discussed in Shanghai Pudong park with a Dutch couch surfer
    • evolution of the concept of art through history (and also for me)
  • official links
  • Geocoded Art Explore the Greatest Paintings of the World

Inspired by

Seeing "yet another painting of Monet" and thinking about it at L'Orangerie during the MET visit.

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