Louvre, Islam og det trehodete trollet. Om makt og politikk, sekularisme og annet i franske museer

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Bjarne Rogan¹ 

[1] Universitetet i Oslo

关键词: Museum;    Louvre;    power;    Islamic art;    Branly;    secularism;    aesthetics;    universalism;   

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学科分类：地球科学(综合)

来源: Novus forlag

【 摘 要 】

Louvre, Islam and the Three-headed Troll. On Power and Politics, secularism and more in French Museums.The reception of French museum exhibitions varies significantly between the French and the non-French public, especially the Anglo-American. This was clearly demonstrated when the Branly museum – an ‘anthropological art museum’ – was inaugurated in 2006. The same phenomenon can be observed in the Grand Louvre – France’s foremost museum of fine arts. This spring’s exhibition on German art in Louvre was considered a scandal from a German point of view. The main case study, however, is Louvre’s new museum of Islamic art, which was inaugurated in 2012. The reasons are threefold: French republican universalism, which claims a French-western hegemony in matters of aesthetics; French secularism (laïcité), which forbids anything religious in public institutions; and French anti-communautarisme, which fights communities based on ethnicity within the Republic. These three mechanisms – or ideologies – steer museum and exhibition practices in a way that is difficult to grasp for a foreigner. And they make the museum a place where power is exerted in a more intricate way than other Western observers are used to, and more efficiently than the public authorities’ use of museums to political ends.

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