The Gipsoteca of Possagno: from artist's studio to museum

Myssok, Johannes

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“…In the Gipsotheca Canoviana, for example, the oeuvre becomes comprehensible in a literal overview. The sum of Canova's sculptural production is gathered on and in front of the walls of a large basilica-shaped gallery space (Myssok 2011). Although the Thorvaldsen Museum does not offer a similar overview of the artist's oeuvre, his artistic production is presented in a succession of thematic and formal groupings that are still held together by the museum's simple plan organisation and consistent architectural interiors.…”

Section: Introduction: the Tenacious Mythmentioning

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Buildings for Bodies of Work: The Artist Museum After the Death and Return of the Author

Liefooghe¹

2019

Architectural Histories

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Critiques of the cult of artists, life-and-work narratives, and the authority of authors over the meaning of their works not only unsettle the conventions of literary and art historical studies. They also challenge the importance of the artist museum and its architecture. Adopting Roland Barthes' discussions of the 'death' and 'return of the author' of the late 1960s and early 1970s as a critical lens, this article examines how the architecture of artist museums reflects and contributes to the discursive construction of the resilient figure of the artist-author. To do so, the article compares the cultist make-up of the 19th-century Thorvaldsen Museum-Mausoleum (opened in 1848) with the resolutely work-centred museums of Van Gogh (1973) and Roger Raveel (1999). The architecture of the last two examples is significantly different, however. The Van Gogh Museum seemingly negates its monographic orientation, while the Raveel Museum amends a white cube logic with a reserved interpretation of artistic individuality and site-boundedness. Parallel to the institutional interpretation of a museum's monographic mission, and the curators' representation of the artist-life-work nexus in exhibitions, architecture is yet another element in a museum's assemblage of an artist presented as a dead or revived author to its visitors.

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Section: Introduction: the Tenacious Mythmentioning

confidence: 99%

Buildings for Bodies of Work: The Artist Museum After the Death and Return of the Author

Liefooghe¹

2019

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The Gipsoteca of Possagno: from artist's studio to museum

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Buildings for Bodies of Work: The Artist Museum After the Death and Return of the Author

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