Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2018
Abstract
This talk pursues two aims: First, to outline the paradox which consists in apparent, but contradictory presence of two aspects of museums and galleries. These are places of double transformation: Museums transform things from their being living parts of their habitats into dead remnants.
Nevertheless, they also expose them to view, they are giving them a new life by heightening, isolating those aspects which make them objects of visual interest. Second aim of this lecture is to compare the approaches of two authors - John Dewey and T.
W. Adorno - who reflected on this ambivalence and tried to find non-reductive way out of it.