Decolonizing the Colony: Challenges to Systemic Change in the American Art Museum

IF 0.2 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY Journal of Curatorial Studies Pub Date : 2021-10-01 DOI:10.1386/jcs_00043_1
Andrew Mcclellan
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This article seeks to identify impediments to, as well as opportunities for, change in American art museums in the face of demands for social justice and greater inclusivity. Focusing specifically on the representation of American art in well-established encyclopaedic museums, I argue that inherited collections and taxonomies, mapped onto the physical spaces of museums, limit the speed and degree to which aesthetic priorities, values and narratives may adapt in order to meet shifting demographics and visitor expectations. In effect, the challenge for many museums is to confront and navigate an institutionalized form of white supremacy baked into their intellectual and material foundations. I end by analysing several recent strategies that have aimed at dismantling conventions and complicating the canon.
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殖民地非殖民化:美国美术馆系统变革的挑战
面对社会正义和更大包容性的要求,本文试图找出美国美术馆变革的障碍和机遇。我特别关注美国艺术在成熟的百科全书式博物馆中的表现,认为继承的藏品和分类法,映射到博物馆的物理空间上,限制了美学优先事项、价值观和叙事的适应速度和程度,以满足不断变化的人口统计和游客期望。事实上,许多博物馆面临的挑战是直面和驾驭一种制度化的白人至上主义形式,这种形式已经融入了它们的知识和物质基础。最后,我分析了最近几项旨在废除惯例和使正典复杂化的战略。
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期刊介绍: The Journal of Curatorial Studies is an international, peer-reviewed publication that explores the cultural functioning of curating and its relation to exhibitions, institutions, audiences, aesthetics and display culture. The journal takes a wide perspective in the inquiry into what constitutes ''the curatorial''. Curating has evolved considerably from the connoisseurship model of arranging objects to now encompass performative, virtual and interventionist strategies. While curating as a spatialized discourse of art objects remains important, the expanded cultural practice of curating not only produces exhibitions for audiences to view, but also plays a catalytic role in redefining aesthetic experience, framing cultural conditions in institutions and communities, and inquiring into constructions of knowledge and ideology. As a critical and responsive forum for debate in the emerging field of curatorial studies, the journal will foster scholarship in the theory, practice and history of curating, as well as that of exhibitions and display culture in general. The journal supports in-depth investigations of contemporary and historical exhibitions, case studies of curators and their engagements, and analyses of the critical dynamics influencing the production of exhibitions in art and broader display culture. The Journal of Curatorial Studies invites contributions from scholars within curatorial studies, art history, museum studies, cultural studies, and other academic disciplines. The journal publishes both thematic and open issues, and features research articles, contemporary and historical case studies, interviews with curators, artists and theorists, and reviews of books, exhibitions and conferences.
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