论艺术博物馆藏品的能动性

On the Agency of Art Museums'Collections

本文尝试从艺术品能动性的视角分析博物馆藏品与观众之间建立联系的机制以及藏品的活力,作者以阿尔弗雷德·杰尔的艺术品能动性理论中的“艺术纽带”理论为基础,提出艺术博物馆中的艺术纽带理论。在由策展人、藏品、原型、观众这四个元素所编织的特定关系网中,藏品及其原型发挥能动性的关键在于溯因机制,这一机制促使观众通过参观展览去探寻藏品的文化传记。艺术博物馆作为收藏机构的发展历史也是藏品文化传记的一部分。要想更好地建立起与观众之间的沟通,艺术博物馆就要为观众创造出可以追溯藏品文化传记的观展环境。

This thesis looks into the interaction between museum collections and viewers,and the vitality of the exhibited objects from the perspective of the agency of works of art,proposing the idea of art nexus in art museum based on the theory of the agency of artworks by Alfred Gell.Among the art nexus formed by curator,collection,prototype and audience,the collection and its prototype work as agents through abductive mechanism that encourages the audience to find out the cultural biography of the objects in exhibition.The history of the art museum as the institute for conservation of the works of art plays a part of its cultural biography.What analyzed above recommends that the exhibition context favorable for viewers to trace cultural biography of works of art should be created as a bridge well connecting the viewers and the exhibits.