EXHIBITING THE UNIVERSE AS A KIND OF AUTHORITY FROM MEDIEVAL CABINET OF CURIOSITIES TO 19TH CENTURY GLOBAL EXHIBITIONS
ORTAÇAĞ NADİRE KABİNELERİNDEN 19. YÜZYIL KÜRESEL SERGİLERİNE BİR İKTİDAR BİÇİMİ OLARAK EVRENİN SERGİLENMESİ

Author : Seçkin AYDIN
Number of pages : 182-191

Abstract

Today’s biennials depend on 19th century’s global exhibitions, these global exhibitions depend on national museums, museums depend on collection of kingdoms/empires, these collections depend on medieval cabinet of curiosities. Despite tehere are hundreds years and numerous social, politicial, ideolojical and tecnical developments, these exhibition models basically have depends on same logic; control of knowledge… Initially, control of knowledge was a tool of individual intellectual satisfy, but then it has been transformed to waranty of continuity, and historical proofs of the kigdoms, empires, and national states and their authority on the knowledge, history, art, science.

Keywords

Global exhibitions, collections, cabinet of curiosities, national museums, art.

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