Open AccessThe logic of the collection
Author(s) -
Boris Groys
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
nordisk museologi
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2002-0503
pISSN - 1103-8152
DOI - 10.5617/nm.3792
Subject(s) - secularization , space (punctuation) , politics , presentation (obstetrics) , element (criminal law) , art , visual arts , art history , aesthetics , history , philosophy , law , political science , medicine , linguistics , radiology
In our culture 'serious', 'autonomous', art is produced primarily to be collected. Unlike in the past, it is no longer conceived as an element of a temple, a church, a palace or a functional public space. It is even possible to argue that the modern notion of 'art' is a result of the emerging of the modern museum in the 18th century. The historical museum didn't collect art but rather produced it through displaying the very heterogeneous objects which were used in many different sacred, political ritual, decorative etc - ways in their original cultural contexts inside the unified and secularized space of the aesthetic presentation in the museum.