The Political Representation of Time in Museum

DOI

10.2991/hssmee-18.2018.91How to use a DOI?

Keywords

museum, time, church, the easel painting.

Abstract

In exploring the history of museum, people usually trace back to the “cabinets of curiosities” as its origin, which however is only one of the many possible perspectives. The historian Fernand Braudel designates his approach to the study of history with “the long term”, “the medium term” and “the short term”, which provides us with different angles in viewing history. When we put museum – the public space of preserving and protecting artworks under the perspective of “the medium term” which allows a longer duration in time line, rather than “the short term” which often refers to historical moments and events. Obviously, under such perspective, what jumps into people’s horizon is the church. And the easel painting played the role of the agent who transferred artworks from church to museum. The change of space is a representation of the will and power of the ruling class. Through investigating the evolution of the church, easel painting, artworks and museum, and tracing their social and historical conditions, this article reveals the modern process of human beings in time and provides a new perspective of reflecting museum.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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