Open AccessCreating Academic-Museal Dialogue In-Between Ivory Towers and Unwritten Pages
Author(s) -
Shao-Lan Hertel
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cahiers d'histoire
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1929-610X
pISSN - 0712-2330
DOI - 10.7202/1073067ar
Subject(s) - negotiation , mainland china , china , consciousness , identity (music) , calligraphy , legal consciousness , sociology , media studies , aesthetics , visual arts , political science , social science , epistemology , art , law , painting , philosophy
Addressing the pedagogical framework of university art museums and the potentials and challenges they carry as innovative academic-museal models, this article explores recursive spheres of educational institutions shaping the theory, practice, and reception of art in present-day Mainland China. Through a critical discussion of TAM ’s Chinese contemporary calligraphy collection, time-and-space-specific functions and meanings constituting zones of cultural dialogue and negotiation between different generations of Tsinghua scholars are carved out. Shaped by and deeper shaping cultural-national identity in the Chinese collective (sub-) consciousness, 2019, China’s “Big Year for Anniversaries”, affords the crucial moment to reflect upon her modern history, omnipresent and omniabsent alike.