Comments on: In Search of the Sophisticated http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jeff Swan http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/comment-page-1/#comment-53834 Jeff Swan Thu, 22 Feb 2007 09:34:39 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/#comment-53834 High! Your site is really great! Thank you for it! http://lesbianheaven.sbn.bz/ - for girls only High! Your site is really great! Thank you for it!
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]]> By: Boîte noire » Archive du blog » Un top 50 des blogs scientifiques anglophones http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/comment-page-1/#comment-12100 Boîte noire » Archive du blog » Un top 50 des blogs scientifiques anglophones Fri, 07 Jul 2006 08:36:12 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/#comment-12100 [...] Savage Minds est un des rares blogs de sciences sociales présent dans la liste (je soupçonne Technorati d’une inclinaison à classer très favorablement les grands sites comme Science Blogs, qui publient majoritairement en sciences exactes, d’où le biais). Leur blog d’anthropologie aborde différents sujets tous aussi intéressants les uns que les autres, récemment des passages bruts d’ethnographie et quelques notes sur le quai Branly. [...] [...] Savage Minds est un des rares blogs de sciences sociales présent dans la liste (je soupçonne Technorati d’une inclinaison à classer très favorablement les grands sites comme Science Blogs, qui publient majoritairement en sciences exactes, d’où le biais). Leur blog d’anthropologie aborde différents sujets tous aussi intéressants les uns que les autres, récemment des passages bruts d’ethnographie et quelques notes sur le quai Branly. [...]

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]]> By: Tim http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/comment-page-1/#comment-11190 Tim Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:45:45 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/#comment-11190 That's because Western Art Museums (e.g. the Tate) and Ethnographic Museums (e.g. the Pitt Rivers) have different historical origins, shaped by collectors with different goals. It is only interesting to the extent that ethnographic material culture became recast as 'art' of a non-Western form, thus making the separation an issue. But in museums with origins in the collections of asthetes and grazers you do get less distinctions - an example would be the <a href="http://www.scva.org.uk/" rel="nofollow">Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts</a> where neither geography nor culture serve as classifiers. Many of the Royal collections are similarly diverse. The collections of the new Musée du Quai Branly were mostly pillaged from the Musée de l'Homme. When I last visited the latter the entirety of the ethnographic displays had been removed and replaced with a maze of cardboard upon which the works of a mid-20th century European cartoonist were mounted. Disappointed, moi? Oh well, at least it may mean another trip to Paris... That’s because Western Art Museums (e.g. the Tate) and Ethnographic Museums (e.g. the Pitt Rivers) have different historical origins, shaped by collectors with different goals. It is only interesting to the extent that ethnographic material culture became recast as ‘art’ of a non-Western form, thus making the separation an issue. But in museums with origins in the collections of asthetes and grazers you do get less distinctions – an example would be the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts where neither geography nor culture serve as classifiers. Many of the Royal collections are similarly diverse.

The collections of the new Musée du Quai Branly were mostly pillaged from the Musée de l’Homme. When I last visited the latter the entirety of the ethnographic displays had been removed and replaced with a maze of cardboard upon which the works of a mid-20th century European cartoonist were mounted. Disappointed, moi? Oh well, at least it may mean another trip to Paris…

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]]> By: oneman http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/comment-page-1/#comment-11185 oneman Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:54:36 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2006/06/24/in-search-of-the-sophisticated/#comment-11185 WHat's interesting is that you almost never see an art museum that is organized by continent in which Europe and North America are just two continents among the rest. You see plenty of the reverse: Met-like organizations where "art" takes up most of the space and "ancient art", "non-Western art", "Islamic art", "Chinese art", or whatever have their own rooms. But it's very rare for curators and museum donors to suppor the idea that there are varied art traditions out there and that the Western is but one (or a dozen) among many. The Trocadero is the only example I can think of, and even there the non-Western was inscribed into the colonial relationship that positioned the work of Western artists as "real" art and the work of non-Western artists as little more than source material for Westerners. WHat’s interesting is that you almost never see an art museum that is organized by continent in which Europe and North America are just two continents among the rest. You see plenty of the reverse: Met-like organizations where “art” takes up most of the space and “ancient art”, “non-Western art”, “Islamic art”, “Chinese art”, or whatever have their own rooms. But it’s very rare for curators and museum donors to suppor the idea that there are varied art traditions out there and that the Western is but one (or a dozen) among many. The Trocadero is the only example I can think of, and even there the non-Western was inscribed into the colonial relationship that positioned the work of Western artists as “real” art and the work of non-Western artists as little more than source material for Westerners.

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