Question

In Carol Duncan's article "Art Museums and the Ritual of Citizenship," she traces the rise of the museum from the eighteenth century to today. What is her main issue with museums? Why does she see the history of the museum as related to this problem? Give at least one example from the reading to support your thesis.

Answer 1

Carol Duncan is a Marxist feminist also known as pioneer of new art history,particularly she enquires a role that museums in defining the culture.Ducans each chapters tells about different types of art museums and issues pertaining to their formation and focus. In her first chapter , she lays the ground work that museum is a ritual space by pointing out constaints on behaviours within it, she sees the implication of aesthetic temple , she establishes that museum and its contents as a field in which public and private interests complete.She considered the art museum as ritual.

Art museums , that was built to represent publically believes about the order of the world the sites are richin kind of symbolism.There the public art collections signifies seculiar values not the relegious believes, their portraits leads to rational pastimes, many of the art museums in history was built to resemble many palaces and temples