The porous museum: the politics of art, rupture and recycling in modern Romania

"The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest. The museum has functioned successively as a museum of art, a communist museum, the headquarters of the communist secret police,...

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1. Verfasser: Nicolescu, Gabriela 1980- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Abschlussarbeit Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Bloomsbury Visual Arts 2023
Schriftenreihe:Bloomsbury collections
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Zusammenfassung:"The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest. The museum has functioned successively as a museum of art, a communist museum, the headquarters of the communist secret police, and a museum of folk art. Gabriela Nicolescu traces the museum’s spectacular biography and follows the transformation of its practices and aesthetics through three very different political regimes in the 20th and early 21st century: monarchist, socialist and post-socialist. Nicolescu’s fascinating study starts with a focus on a dumped and smashed statue of the revolutionary figureheads Marx, Engels and Lenin in the museum’s rear yard as an expression of the complicated journey of modern Romania. She considers questions of recycling and rupture, with some exhibits and practices carried over from one regime to another, and others discarded in favour of the completely new. Through this process, the museum can been seen as a microcosm of the wider nation state and the ways in which the past is remembered or rejected. The interdependency of politics, ethics and aesthetics that Nicolescu terms ‘porosity’ is an attribute of museums all over the world. Applying original anthropological research to key ethnographic museums in Romania and elsewhere in Europe, the book moves beyond regional and media stereotypes by arguing for the influence of local oral histories on national history."
Beschreibung:Revision of the author's doctoral thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015, under the title: 'Art, politics and the museum : tales of continuity and rupture in modern Romania'
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 212 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781350231115
9781350196650
DOI:10.5040/9781350231115

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