Genopdagelsen af kvindelige kunstnere: Om kunstmuseers produktion og reproduktion af kønnede betydningsmuligheder på tværs af tid
(2022) ABMM74 20221Division of ALM and Digital Cultures
- Abstract (Swedish)
- This study investigates how art museums of Copenhagen currently (2022) are rediscovering the “forgotten” female artists associated with the Danish modernism. Through discourses in exhibition labels, the methods for curating rediscovering narratives are examined. Specifically, it studies the textual subject positioning of artists in relation to their gender, to the art they create and to the social, historical, and cultural context they are surrounded by. A comparative analysis of three exhibitions shows that the relationship between artists and their gender, their art and their context can be constructed very differently. What is positioned as core themes in one artist narrative is left as an implied truth in another, leaving it clear that... (More)
- This study investigates how art museums of Copenhagen currently (2022) are rediscovering the “forgotten” female artists associated with the Danish modernism. Through discourses in exhibition labels, the methods for curating rediscovering narratives are examined. Specifically, it studies the textual subject positioning of artists in relation to their gender, to the art they create and to the social, historical, and cultural context they are surrounded by. A comparative analysis of three exhibitions shows that the relationship between artists and their gender, their art and their context can be constructed very differently. What is positioned as core themes in one artist narrative is left as an implied truth in another, leaving it clear that the museal creations of artist narratives are highly subjective and interpretive.
Interpreting the theory of Relational Gender by the Norwegian psychologist Hanne Haavind from a museological perspective, gender is discussed to occur in museum spaces as a relation between people across time. The study discusses the subject positions as a spectrum of gendered meaning potentials for the term “female artist”, that not only shapes our understanding of gender in the past, but also in our present and future. This spectrum of gendered meaning potentials is discussed as problematic, since parts of the examined narratives are placed in either gendered, historical or social vacuums, that reproduce the artists as partly alienated historical subjects, creating a risk of another oblivion in the future. However, the study also celebrates the constructive gendered meaning potentials of the spectrum, that counteracts historical oblivion by examining the female gender as a positive influence on artistic creation. The study leaves us with the argumentation that museums should start taking more control over the inevitable historical oblivion and recognize subject positioning as a tool for preserving including and diverse gendered meaning potentials for the future. (Less)
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- author
- Brincker Olson, Astrid LU
- supervisor
- organization
- alternative title
- Rediscovering female artists: On the production and reproduction of gendered meaning potentials across time in art museums.
- course
- ABMM74 20221
- year
- 2022
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Rediscovering history, female artists, relational gender, museum gender, subject positioning, polytemporality, meaning potential
- language
- Danish
- id
- 9111377
- date added to LUP
- 2023-05-16 13:44:54
- date last changed
- 2023-05-16 13:44:54
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abstract = {{This study investigates how art museums of Copenhagen currently (2022) are rediscovering the “forgotten” female artists associated with the Danish modernism. Through discourses in exhibition labels, the methods for curating rediscovering narratives are examined. Specifically, it studies the textual subject positioning of artists in relation to their gender, to the art they create and to the social, historical, and cultural context they are surrounded by. A comparative analysis of three exhibitions shows that the relationship between artists and their gender, their art and their context can be constructed very differently. What is positioned as core themes in one artist narrative is left as an implied truth in another, leaving it clear that the museal creations of artist narratives are highly subjective and interpretive.
Interpreting the theory of Relational Gender by the Norwegian psychologist Hanne Haavind from a museological perspective, gender is discussed to occur in museum spaces as a relation between people across time. The study discusses the subject positions as a spectrum of gendered meaning potentials for the term “female artist”, that not only shapes our understanding of gender in the past, but also in our present and future. This spectrum of gendered meaning potentials is discussed as problematic, since parts of the examined narratives are placed in either gendered, historical or social vacuums, that reproduce the artists as partly alienated historical subjects, creating a risk of another oblivion in the future. However, the study also celebrates the constructive gendered meaning potentials of the spectrum, that counteracts historical oblivion by examining the female gender as a positive influence on artistic creation. The study leaves us with the argumentation that museums should start taking more control over the inevitable historical oblivion and recognize subject positioning as a tool for preserving including and diverse gendered meaning potentials for the future.}},
author = {{Brincker Olson, Astrid}},
language = {{dan}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Genopdagelsen af kvindelige kunstnere: Om kunstmuseers produktion og reproduktion af kønnede betydningsmuligheder på tværs af tid}},
year = {{2022}},
}