Rethinking the monumental suggests not only a reconsideration of Judy Chicago’s controversial installation The Dinner Party (1979)-- as displayed in the group feminist art exhibition, Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s Dinner Party in Feminist Art History --but also refers to an unfixing of the monumental position of power afforded the museum and a re-invigoration of the debate in feminist visual art regarding the use of the female body. I use the Sexual Politics exhibition, curated by Amelia Jones for the University of California at Los Angeles Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center (1996) as an indicator of the museum as feminist space. Sexual Politics’ controversial reception by both the feminist community and mainstream critics provokes discussion for how the exhibition’s contradictions are part of the exhibition’s success. I uncover that the museum has always been an important factor in the validity of The Dinner Party. Nevertheless, neither the curator nor critic (exemplified by the Christopher Knight’s 1996 review) of Sexual Politics goes far enough to exploit the museum factor as part of their re-readings of The Dinner Party . I note that the exhibition backdrop, the contemporary art museum, is experiencing a crisis in representation in regards to its audience. Guiding institutional models originally identified by Duncan Cameron (1971) in essay Museum: Temple or Forum? prove suspect as the museum embarks toward a more self-reflexive sense of power in the postmodern museum. Janet Wolff’s essay Reinstating Corporeality serves as a point of departure from which to explore the action of museum exhibition as the site suitable for corporeal reinstatement for feminism. Exhibition elements of artwork, audience and environment act as partners in a metaphoric postmodern dance. This view supposes foreclosure on the debate of essentialism in regards to the corporeal in the feminist visual arts through themes and criticisms associated with The Dinner Party. Jones sets out in her exhibition to contribute to the historicization of feminist art. This thesis looks at that initiative and suggests the museum exhibition, as the medium for this historicization, is an integral element to the success of the process.

This study examines the impact of new museological theory on museum education practice at the Vancouver Art Gallery in relation to a re-installation of Emily Carr's work. It is a case study that concerns both the negotiation of meanings around Emily Carr's work as they are situated within current and traditional art historical/ historical beliefs, and the desire to offer museum visitors a more sufficient or comprehensive educational experience. The dissertation examines the installation of Carr in a variety of galleries across Canada (National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver Art Gallery) as a means of contextualizing a range of problems associated with museum practice. The National Gallery chapter explores issues of ideology raised by the new museology. The chapter concerning the display at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria concerns the particularities of site and place (Victoria was Carr's birthplace) as well as notions of resonance and contextualization in art displays. The discussion of the Art Gallery of Ontario concerns contextualization of a different sort, the display created with a solid foundation in educational literature. A temporary exhibition of Carr's work juxtaposed with that of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun in Vancouver offers an entry point into a discussion of subjectivity and curatorial epistemic authority, while the resulting re-installation of Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery (the case) is explored as one possible approach to issues raised in the earlier chapters, by the challenges of post-modem theorists to historical understanding, historiography, and museum practice.

CoordenaÃÃo de AperfeiÃoamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior / Essa tese à o resultado de pesquisa sobre a presenÃa do pÃblico em exposiÃÃes de artes plÃsticas em centros culturais e museus de arte. Utilizando dados da observaÃÃo etnogrÃfica, descrevemos prÃticas sociais e interaÃÃes efetuadas entre os atores sociais durante o tempo em que estÃo em exposiÃÃes. ApÃs aproximarmos o leitor do universo da pesquisa e discutirmos conceitos da abordagem sociolÃgica de exposiÃÃes de arte, tratamos das prÃticas sociais fundamentais do pÃblico em exposiÃÃes, como estudar, brincar, conversar, observar a obra, dar uma olhada, conviver, fazer carinho e namorar. Tentamos tambÃm mostrar como a exposiÃÃo pode consistir em item de um conjunto de atividades significativas para os atores sociais. A tÃtulo de conclusÃo, apresentamos nossas contribuiÃÃes e discutimos os limites do modelo um indivÃduo / uma obra e da concepÃÃo de exposiÃÃo de arte como arena de recepÃÃo de mensagens. / The result of the following thesis was based on research upon public attendance to art exhibition in Cultural Centres as well as Art Museums. Utilizing observing ethnographic facts, we describe social practices and interactions which take place amongst social actors during the time of the exhibit. On bringing the reader to the researching universe and discussing concepts based on a sociologic approach of art exhibition, we cover the fundamental social practices of the public during exhibits on how to study, play, talk, observe the artistic work, take a glimpse, familiarize, caress and court it. We also try to show how the exhibit may consist an item of a group of activities significant to the social actors. As to conclude, we presented our contributions and discussed the limits of the pattern individual / art work and that of the conception of art exhibition as a receptive message arena.

The thesis is focused on cultural tourism, declares the importance of exhibitions of modern art in cultural tourism and the importance of marketing strategy of gallery or museum, which is described on the example of Tate Modern gallery.

This study examines the impact of new museological theory on museum education practice at the Vancouver Art Gallery in relation to a re-installation of Emily Carr's work. It is a case study that concerns both the negotiation of meanings around Emily Carr's work as they are situated within current and traditional art historical/ historical beliefs, and the desire to offer museum visitors a more sufficient or comprehensive educational experience. The dissertation examines the installation of Carr in a variety of galleries across Canada (National Gallery, Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Vancouver Art Gallery) as a means of contextualizing a range of problems associated with museum practice. The National Gallery chapter explores issues of ideology raised by the new museology. The chapter concerning the display at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria concerns the particularities of site and place (Victoria was Carr's birthplace) as well as notions of resonance and contextualization in art displays. The discussion of the Art Gallery of Ontario concerns contextualization of a different sort, the display created with a solid foundation in educational literature. A temporary exhibition of Carr's work juxtaposed with that of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun in Vancouver offers an entry point into a discussion of subjectivity and curatorial epistemic authority, while the resulting re-installation of Carr at the Vancouver Art Gallery (the case) is explored as one possible approach to issues raised in the earlier chapters, by the challenges of post-modem theorists to historical understanding, historiography, and museum practice. / Education, Faculty of / Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of / Graduate

While new approaches to displaying art free both the art and the viewer from overly didactic forms of curation, there have been very few attempts to examine how viewers negotiate meaning from art when no goal or directive is provided. While some see difference as the critical factor, others use similarity as a way to introduce new narratives. This dissertation research takes a close look at the kinds of things people observe in visual works of art to expose the specific ways that the offerings in the work are made knowable by its viewer and how different modes of presentation might affect the process. A paired design was developed to find out how juxtaposing works on dimensions of similarity and difference might affect what people see in individual paintings and whether the presence or absence of depictive content would be a factor. In three online experiments, participants were tasked with generating as many single words or short phrase responses as they could over a two-minute time period from a selection of modern and contemporary paintings – 32 abstract and 32 representational. In the first study, paintings were presented sequentially. In the next study, the same pictures were purposefully matched for color, composition, style, and thematic content. In the third study, the same pictures were re-paired to maximize difference. Pairing effected an overall decline in number of total comments for representational paintings compared to isolated single-view sequences. In contrast, significant increases were found for abstract art when the adjacent painting was also abstract. Significant consistency in response patterns for both art types across all three studies provide quantitative and content-based evidence for a normative level of engagement, with specific processing effects relative to art type.

How much art is projected into the home and community as a result of art experiences in the school is difficult to determine without some criterion as a standard for judgement. Based upon this premise, the author attempted, with the cooperation of the art committee of the Dallas Junior League, to test the aesthetic judgement of selected groups of children in the Dallas Public Schools by evaluating their reactions to an exhibition of common household articles currently available on the Dallas market.

[pt] Os projetos de arquitetura expositiva concebidos por Lina Bo Bardi se configuram como parte importante de sua trajetória profissional. Tomando como ponto de partida a exposição Bahia no Ibirapuera (1959), o presente trabalho investiga o percurso expositivo traçado pela arquiteta até Entreato para crianças (1985). Pautada na análise de textos, desenhos, fotografias, reportagens, bem como do contexto histórico-social, esta dissertação investiga a maneira com que os temas, as abordagens e, consequentemente, as concepções espaciais foram se transformando durante esta trajetória. Observou-se que três eixos acompanharam este percurso. O primeiro centrado na inserção do regional no espaço expositivo e na indistinção entre o popular e o erudito; o segundo baseado no vínculo entre arte e trabalho; o terceiro expresso através da experimentação do jogo no espaço expositivo. O papel desempenhado por Lina Bo Bardi transcendia o projeto expográfico, pois além de se envolver globalmente na maioria destas exposições, ela utilizava o espaço expositivo como terreno para debates culturais, sociais e políticos. / [en] The art exhibitions projects conceived by Lina Bo Bardi are an important part of her professional trajectory. Taking Bahia no Ibirapuera (1959) as a start point, this present work analyzes the art exhibition path traced by her until Entreato para crianças (1985). Based on the analysis of texts, drawings, photographs, reports and the historical-social context, this dissertation investigates how the subjects, approaches and the spatial conceptions were transformed during this trajectory. Three axes were found. The first one is focused on the insertion of the regional art in the exhibition space, and on the indistinction between popular and erudite; the second one is based on the bond between art and work; the third one is expressed by the ludic experimentation in the exhibition space. The role practiced by Lina Bo Bardi transcended the expographic project, because besides being completely involved in most of these exhibitions, she also used the exhibition space as a place for cultural, social and political discussions.

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