Prerequisiti Basic general knowledge of the main concepts of History of Art of the last two centuries.

The course aims to offer a general panorama of the contemporary debate, at international level, on the current de-hierarchisation of the museum as a hegemonic institution deeply rooted in Western culture, history and ideology. Particular emphasis is put on offering the students the opportunity to acquire the reference terms of a crucial turning point which has now been operative in museographic methodology for some decaded, all over the world and by now even in Italy, according to the assumption that the work of art must be considered in a mainly anthropological key. Nevertheless the course also aims to provide some general knowledge of the history of art collecting intended to demonstrate how in the Western tradition the "artistic" status was never exlcusive.

Critical-methodological skills in the study of museoloy and museography in the contemporary age

Face-to-face classroom lectures with use of ppt

Oral exams

Case studies:

 

Istanbul Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence,

Sao Paulo Fine Arts Museum 

LA Galleria Nazionale Roma

 

Biennale d'arte Venezia 2013 Massimiliano Gioni's Il Palazzo enciclopedico 

Outliers and American Vanguard Art, exhibition held at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 2018

 

The concept of fake in the practices of contemporary museography

 

The influence of post/de-colonial studies, gender/queer studies

on the contemporary museography.

 

Episodes of art collecting and display in Western tradition: Medeieval treasures, Wunderkammern.

 

The Gentle Art of Fake. Arti, teorie e dibattiti sul falso, a cura di Tommaso Casini e Laura Lombardi, Cinisello Balsamo (MI), Silvana Editoriale 2019. 

 

Un sogno fatto a Milano. Dialoghi con Orhan Pamuk intorno alla poetica del museo, a cura di Laura Lombardi e Massimiliano Rossi, Milano, Johan & Levi, 2018.

 

Orhan Pamuk, Il museo dell'innocenza, Torino, Einaudi, 2009

 

Orhan Pamuk, L'innocenza degli oggetti, Il Museo dell'innocenza, Istanbul, Torino, Einaudi, 2012