Course teached as: B004245 - MUSEOLOGIA Second Cycle Degree in HISTORY OF ART
Teaching Language
italian
Course Content
The course aims to outline the history of museum's displaying , from the birth of the public museum in the eighteenth century up to contemporary.
Therefore illustrate the novelty of ordering that characterized museums such as the Maffei of Verona or the Capitoline in Rome and out of Italy , and the explanation of the main innovations of twentieth century museums and the a- historical type of displaying .
S. Polano, Mostrare. L'allestimento in Italia dagli anni Venti agli anni Ottanta, Milano 1988.
Culture in mostra. Politiche e poetiche dell'allestimento museale, a cura di I.Karp, S. D. Lavine, Clueb, Bologna 1995.
O. Rossi Pinelli, Per una «storia dell’arte parlante»: dal Museo Capitolino (1734) al Pio-Clementino (1771-91) e alcune mutazioni nella storiografia artistica, in "Ricerche di storia dell'arte", 84, 2004.
Staniszewski, The power of Display. A History of Exhibition installations at the museums of modern art, MIT, 1998. V. Newhouse, Art and the power of placement, The Monacelli Press, New York, 2005. C. Basualdo, Un tempo spettacolare ? Una nuova temporalità per gli allestimenti delle collezioni museali, in La vita delle mostre, a cura di A. Aymonino e I. Tolic, Mondadori 2007.
Learning Objectives
The course aims to provide the critical tools to analyze systems and museum exhibits of past and present , useful to develop different exhibition strategies and understand both in theory and in practice.
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of Modern and Contemporary Art History and History of Art criticism .
Teaching Methods
Frontal lessons with projection of PWP.
Type of Assessment
Written exam with five open questions on the contents of lessons and of bibliography. At least three questions need to be answered correctly to consider the exam successfully passed. For each missing answer, two points will be removed.
Course program
Introduction to the course: Strategies, poetics and policies of museum ordinances
The birth of semiophoric objects; The Greenblatt categories. Types of sorting.
Types of equipment.
Arrangements before the birth of the public museum (Mancini, Borromeo, Galleria Giustiniani).
The Eighteenth Century and the history of 'storia dell'arte parlante': the cases of the Maffeiano of Verona and of the Capitoline of Rome.
German museums: the Dusseldorf gallery.
Dominique Vivant Denon's Louvre and Alexandre Lenoir's French Museum of French Monuments.
The Soane Museum in London.
The Nineteenth-century setting and contemporary period rooms.
American Museum Designs: The Case of Alfred Barr and the Narration of Contemporary Art.
Thirty years of Nineteenth-century in France: the case of the reorganization of the Louvre Museum.
The Fifties in Italy. Isolation and spectacularization.
The 'death' of modernism and the new orders of the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
The case of the Musee d'Orsay.
The A-historical and the previous Kassel ordinances; The new Moma.
Exhibit the types of outfitting: the exhibitions on the museum.
Making a museum in a historic building preliminary operations and awareness of the original context.
Course Summary.