Discipline and varnish
rhetoric, subjectivity, and counter-memory in the museum
by Thomas Patin
The Museum of Modern Art in New York combines the rhetoric of modernist domestic architecture, formalist art theory, and modernist museology in its exhibition spaces. Discipline and Varnish investigates how this combination of rhetorical devices has produced not only a persuasive understanding of the history of modernist art, but also a set of "subjectivity effects" that uses the formalist notion of "autonomy" as a powerful model for subjectivity.
However, MOMA's rhetoric of display eventually contradicts its three-dimensional discourse on art and aesthetics, undermining the museum's model for subjectivity as well. This study ends with a look at possible alternative relations between museology and subjectivity through analyses of the Wexner Center for the Arts and the plans for the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Subjectivity, Art museums, Subjectivity in art, Aesthetics, Art, history, HermeneuticsPlaces
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Discipline and varnish: rhetoric, subjectivity, and counter-memory in the museum
1999, Peter Lang, Lang AG International Academic Publishers, Peter
in English
0820438065 9780820438061
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [139]-153) and index.
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