Utopian Ideals, Unknowable Futures, and the Art Museum in the Arabian Peninsula
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 16908650 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Karen Exell (0000-0002-3266-4798, The London College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | sup1 |
| Pages | 49-64 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-07 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Arabian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-4764 • E-ISSN: 2153-4780 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/21534764.2017.1352163 |
| OpenAlex | W2755535978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 19 |
This paper explores ideas of the utopian in relation to art museums and the contemporary moment in the Arabian Peninsula. The transference of global art museums –– art museums constructed according to dominant Western art historical principles and museological practices –– to the Arabian Peninsula, has brought with it the rhetoric of post-Enlightenment depoliticized humanist idealism that argues for the ability of these museums to instrumentalize international peace and understanding, as well as offering solace on an individual level through solitary communion with works of art, resulting in a transcendental experience. The discussion addresses the differing ideologies at play and concludes by evaluating some of the futures posited for global art museums in the Arabian Peninsula
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Futures contract · Humanism · Idealism · Ideology · Peninsula · Political science · Politics · Relation (database · Rhetoric · Theology · Transcendental number · Utopia · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
The love of art
In the Time of Oil
Civilizing Rituals
Geographies of Exclusion
Distinction
Consuming Tradition, Manufacturing Heritage
Modernity and the Museum in the Arabian Peninsula
Whose Cosmos, Which Cosmopolitics
Translating museums
The birth of the museum
The Split in Arab Culture
Paradoxes of the New Authoritarianism
Distinction. A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste
Branding, legitimation and the power of museums
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
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| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Highly cited | No |