Museen der anderen 'Art', Künstlermuseen als Versuche einer alternativen Museumspraxis

The aim of this dissertation was, to show possible parallelisms regarding the content and the structure of artists’ museums in the Seventies of the 20th century in relation with the order concepts of the aristocratic "Kunst- and Wunderkammern" in the 15th century. They aimed to be a mirror of the manifold appearances and regularities of the world, by combining naturalia, artificialia, scientifica and curiosa. Therefore, the museum conceptions of Claes Oldenburg and Daniel Spoerri have been analysed in detail. The analysis demonstrated that both museum concepts show important characteristics of the Renaissance’s "Kunst- and Wunderkammern" with the intention, to show up modified ways of thinking by means of a changed classification and assignment of known objects which became "out of place" in the museum area. In this way, they deconstructed historically strengthened visual and ideological codes which are, among other things, conveyed through institutions such as museums and which therefore contribute to determine the knowledge and the life experience of history and our perception of it. Marcel Duchamp had a decisive part in this process. His miniature "Boîte-en-Valise", which set new standards in the evaluation and presentation of art, curiously revived a classification structure which up to that moment had been considered surpassed and unscientific; the one of the "Kunst- and Wunderkammern". The method, to play a "cartesian" game with objects found in the surrounding world, always with the intention to show different possible images of an anyway fragmentary world view, continued in the collection efforts and artistic manifestations until the Seventies of the 20th century. In the course of a repeated museum criticism, this trend led to new museum conceptions by artists.

Grantor dc:publisher

Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University

Year dc:date

2000

Author dc:creator

• Legge, Astrid

Contributors dc:contributor

• Holländer, Hans

• info:eu-repo/classification/ddc/700
• Künste, Bildende Kunst allgemein
• Duchamp, Marcel
• Spoerri, Daniel
• Oldenburg, Claes
• Kunstmuseum
• Konzeption

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• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess

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ger

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