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The 1931 international colonial exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The exposition displayed the people, material(...)
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April 2000, Cambridge
Hybrid modernities : architecture and representation at the 1931 colonial exposition, Paris
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The 1931 international colonial exposition in Paris was a demonstration of French colonial policy, colonial architecture and urban planning, and the scientific and philosophical theories that justified colonialism. The exposition displayed the people, material culture, raw materials, manufactured goods, and arts of the global colonial empires. Yet the event gave a contradictory message of the colonies as the "Orient"--the site of rampant sensuality, decadence, and irrationality--and as the laboratory of Western rationality. In "Hybrid modernities", Patricia Morton shows how the exposition failed to keep colonialism's two spheres separate, instead creating hybrids of French and native culture. At the exposition, French pavilions demonstrated Europe's sophistication in art deco style, while the colonial pavilions were "authentic" native environments for displaying indigenous peoples and artifacts from the colonies. The authenticity of these pavilions' exteriors was contradicted by vaguely exotic interiors filled with didactic exhibition stands and dioramas. Intended to maintain a segregation of colonized and colonizer, the colonial pavilions instead were mixtures of European and native architecture. Anticolonial resistance erupted around the Exposition in the form of protests, anticolonial tracts, and a countercolonial exposition produced by the Surrealists. Thus the Exposition occupied a "middle region" of experience where the norms, rules, and systems of French colonialism both emerged and broke down, unsustainable because of their internal contradictions. As Morton shows, the effort to segregate France and her colonies failed, both at the colonial exposition and in greater France, because it was constantly undermined by the hybrids that modern colonialism itself produced.
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Construit au début du XIXe siècle, au moment où le port de Bordeaux cherche une seconde vie, l'entrepôt Lainé a abrité les épices et les marchandises précieuses ramenées des colonies pendant plus d'un siècle. Désaffecté, menacé de destruction, il est heureusement racheté par la ville de Bordeaux en 1973 pour devenir un lieu à vocation culturelle. Une nouvelle(...)
L'entrepôt : Musée Bordeaux
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Construit au début du XIXe siècle, au moment où le port de Bordeaux cherche une seconde vie, l'entrepôt Lainé a abrité les épices et les marchandises précieuses ramenées des colonies pendant plus d'un siècle. Désaffecté, menacé de destruction, il est heureusement racheté par la ville de Bordeaux en 1973 pour devenir un lieu à vocation culturelle. Une nouvelle page de son histoire commence alors. Réaménagé par les architectes Pistre & Valode et Andrée Putman qui lui rendent son aspect d'origine, l'entrepôt devient musée d'art contemporain, offrant aux artistes une architecture épurée.
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April 2000, Paris
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Museums and memory
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and(...)
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Museums today are more than familiar cultural institutions and showplaces of accumulated objects; they are the sites of interaction between personal and collective identities, between memory and history. The essays in this volume consider museums from personal experience and historical study, and from the memories of museum visitors, curators, and scholars. Representing a variety of fields—history, anthropology, art history, and museum scholarship—the contributors discuss museums across disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries. The essays range widely over time (from the Renaissance to the second half of the twentieth century), and place (China, Japan, the United States, and Germany), in exhibitions explored (photography, Native American history, and “Jurassic technology”), and institution (the Chinese Imperial Collection, Renaissance curiosity cabinets, and modern art museums). Memory operates thematically among the essays in diverse and provocative ways. The papers are organized according to three suggestive themes: experimental ways of theorizing and designing contemporary museums with an explicit interest in history and memory; discussions of personal encounters with historical exhibits; and the professional risks at stake for collectors and curators who shape the institutional presentation of history and memory. The contributors are Susan A. Crane, Wolfgang Ernst, Michael Fehr, Paula Findlen, Tamara Hamlish, Alexis Joachimides, Suzanne Marchand, Julia A. Thomas, and Diana Drake Wilson.
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June 2000, Stanford
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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias(...)
Fair America: world's fairs in the United States
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Since their inception with New York's Crystal Palace Exhibition in the mid-nineteenth century, world's fairs have introduced Americans to “exotic” pleasures such as belly dancing and the Ferris Wheel; pathbreaking technologies such as telephones and X rays; and futuristic architectural, landscaping, and transportation schemes. Billed by their promoters as “encyclopedias of civilization,” the expositions impressed tens of millions of fairgoers with model environments and utopian visions. Setting more than 30 world’s fairs from 1853 to 1984 in their historical context, the authors show that the expositions reflected and influenced not only the ideals but also the cultural tensions of their times. As mainstays rather than mere ornaments of American life, world’s fairs created national support for such issues as the social reunification of North and South after the Civil War, U.S. imperial expansion at the turn of the 20th-century, consumer optimism during the Great Depression, and the essential unity of humankind in a nuclear age.
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An edited transcript of the third BALTIC international seminar, Curating New Media focuses on the relationship of new media art to the institution. Curators, artists and academics share their perspectives on the curating, collecting, commissioning and presenting of computer-based art in one of the first books to be published specifically on this subject.
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January 1900, Gateshead, England
Curating new media : third BALTIC International Seminar, 2001
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An edited transcript of the third BALTIC international seminar, Curating New Media focuses on the relationship of new media art to the institution. Curators, artists and academics share their perspectives on the curating, collecting, commissioning and presenting of computer-based art in one of the first books to be published specifically on this subject.
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Cet ouvrage ouvre les portes des plus grands musées d’Europe qui, dans toute la diversité de leur conception et de leurs collections, ont eu pour volonté commune d’offrir une histoire des arts et des cultures. L’on découvrira les collections encyclopédiques du Vatican, les sculptures classiques de la cour du Belvédère, les collections impériales russes des palais de(...)
Grands musées d'Europe : le rêve du musée universel
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Cet ouvrage ouvre les portes des plus grands musées d’Europe qui, dans toute la diversité de leur conception et de leurs collections, ont eu pour volonté commune d’offrir une histoire des arts et des cultures. L’on découvrira les collections encyclopédiques du Vatican, les sculptures classiques de la cour du Belvédère, les collections impériales russes des palais de l’Ermitage, les collections des Habsbourg réunies au Kunsthistorisches Museum de Vienne, les collections des Bourbons conservées au musée du Prado. L’on verra dans le musée du Louvre et dans le British Museum, la réalisation du rêve napoléonien de musée universel. Dans le projet d’une citadelle de la culture, l’on reconnaîtra le système muséal prussien installé sur la Museumsinsel de Berlin, et, plus circonscrit, le Rijskmuseum d’Amsterdam. Huit chapitres et un corpus photographique pour connaître l’historique de ces musées, la genèse et l’évolution des collections, pour cheminer à travers ces lieux emblématiques qui accueillent des chefs-d’œuvre de l’Histoire. Introduction d'Antonio Paolucci. Rédaction scientifique de Valerio Terraroli.
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The theme of the first Rotterdam International Architecture Biennial was mobility--as it relates to the city and the landscape, and the design culture that comes with it. Held between May and July 2003, the biennial brought together numerous universities, architects, urbanists, spatial planners and designers to swap experiences and discuss new strategies for giving shape(...)
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August 2003, Rotterdam
Mobility : a room with a view. International Architecture Biennale Rotterdam.
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The theme of the first Rotterdam International Architecture Biennial was mobility--as it relates to the city and the landscape, and the design culture that comes with it. Held between May and July 2003, the biennial brought together numerous universities, architects, urbanists, spatial planners and designers to swap experiences and discuss new strategies for giving shape to (car) mobility. This unique book shows the results of this international research in its various forms: statistics, photography, text, visual collage and design proposals. These together give a tangible and insightful look at the mobile cultures found in a wide range of cities and countries, from Mexico City, Hong Kong and Guangzhou, to Djakarta, Budapest, the Ruhr Valley, Beirut, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Peking and Holland. The aim of the publication is twofold. On the one hand, to understand infrastructures and motorway culture by studying their different cultural and geographical contexts. On the other, to draw up an agenda for the future, one that establishes the role to be played by various design disciplines. This research and publication endeavor is the fruit of a collaboration between the universities of Wuppertal, Aachen, Berlin, California, Monterrey (Mexico), Tokyo, Hong Kong, Peking, Beirut, Budapest, Bandung and Delft.
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Catalogue de l'exposition « D'un regard l'autre » au musée du quai Branly.
D'un regard l'autre : histoire des regards européens sur l'Afrique, l'Amérique et l'Océanie
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Catalogue de l'exposition « D'un regard l'autre » au musée du quai Branly.
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October 2006, Paris
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«Je voudrais passionnément que Paris possède un centre culturel [...] qui soit à la fois un musée et un centre de création où les arts plastiques voisineraient avec la musique, le cinéma, les livres, la recherche audiovisuelle. [...] Tout cela coûte cher [...] Mais [...] si l'objectif est atteint, ce sera une réussite sans précédent.» Lorsque Georges Pompidou livre ces(...)
Le Centre Pompidou : les années Beaubourg
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«Je voudrais passionnément que Paris possède un centre culturel [...] qui soit à la fois un musée et un centre de création où les arts plastiques voisineraient avec la musique, le cinéma, les livres, la recherche audiovisuelle. [...] Tout cela coûte cher [...] Mais [...] si l'objectif est atteint, ce sera une réussite sans précédent.» Lorsque Georges Pompidou livre ces mots au Monde en 1972, sa décision est prise depuis 1969. Et malgré les années de vives polémiques qui s'ensuivent - sur sa nécessité même, sur le lieu choisi, le plateau Beaubourg, sur son architecture aux allure de «raffinerie» , le Centre Pompidou ouvre ses portes le 1er février 1977. Aussitôt, le public s'y presse un masse, découvrant sa désormais incontournable BPI, son CCI, Ircam et ses recherches acoustiques la richesse clé son musée, le Mnam et ses mémorables expositions, un calendrier quotidien de spectacles, de colloques de conférences, de rencontres. C'est à l'histoire de ces trente «années Beaubourg» que nous convie Germain Viatte, trente ans d'une activité culturelle sans précédent, dont le public ne saurait aujourd'hui se passer.
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January 1900, Paris
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The new curatorial studies programmes springing up across Europe and North America often deal with theoretical issues, yet one of the central questions of curating frequently remains unframed: What makes a great exhibition? In this book, fourteen essays by active curators and historians address the issue head-on, focusing on the curation of contemporary art in North(...)
What makes a great exhibition?
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The new curatorial studies programmes springing up across Europe and North America often deal with theoretical issues, yet one of the central questions of curating frequently remains unframed: What makes a great exhibition? In this book, fourteen essays by active curators and historians address the issue head-on, focusing on the curation of contemporary art in North America and Europe.
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