Open AccessKonstmuseet som metafor: Om museet som tidsangivare och om utställningarna som tvivelaktiga verktyg
Author(s) -
Beate Sydhoff
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
nordisk museologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2002-0503
pISSN - 1103-8152
DOI - 10.5617/nm.3683
Subject(s) - metaphor , symbol (formal) , individualism , art , architecture , period (music) , art history , humanities , visual arts , aesthetics , philosophy , linguistics , political science , law
The Art Museum as Metaphor Beate Sydhoff, art historian and writer, explores the role of the art museum as a metaphor for an idea and a period in history, something that has developed during the last thirty years. During this time the museum has become less representative and more subjective in terms of collections, less objective and more individualistic in its architecture and evidently more of a symbol than a functional construction housing historic remains.