Objects of Desire, Desire for Objects
Inaugural lecture delivered at the Collège de France on Thursday 30 March 2017
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At the museum, this means seeing the objects where they are, and simultaneously seeing them where they no longer are, that is to say, in the regions from which they were taken. It means enjoying the beauty and the knowledge that have been accumulated in our cities over centuries, but enjoying them with full awareness of the conditions in which these objects were collected, in asymmetrical economic, military and epistemological contexts. It means rendering visible, in order to master them better,...
Note de l’éditeur
Published with the support of the Collège de France Foundation: https://www.fondation-cdf.fr.
Éditeur : Collège de France
Lieu d’édition : Paris
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 28 février 2025
ISBN numérique : 978-2-7226-0844-3
DOI : 10.4000/13ehc
Collection : Leçons inaugurales
Année d’édition : 2025
Bénédicte Savoy
Liz Libbrecht (trad.)
Objects of Desire, Desire for ObjectsInaugural lecture delivered at the Collège de France on Thursday 30 March 2017
At the museum, this means seeing the objects where they are, and simultaneously seeing them where they no longer are, that is to say, in the regions from which they were taken. It means enjoying the beauty and the knowledge that have been accumulated in our cities over centuries, but enjoying them with full awareness of the conditions in which these objects were collected, in asymmetrical economic, military and epistemological contexts. It means rendering visible, in order to master them better, the internal contradictions and the glaring tensions that have been at work in the very idea of museums since its origin. It means paying close attention, in this context, to the gazes and voices of the dispossessed.
Bénédicte Savoy is an art historian. She has been a Professor at the Technische Universität of Berlin since 2003, and curated several exhibitions in France and in Germany. In January 2017 she was elected to the International Chair of Cultural History of Art Heritage in Europe, 18th-20th Centuries at the Collège de France.
Liz Libbrecht (trad.)
Fondation du Collège de France
Référence du projet : 223.FCDF/CDF.23
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