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Stienstra, Kari-Anne (2015)

Discussing 'Global Art' and the Role of the Museum: Museological challenges of global contemporary art in the Tropenmuseum and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam

Master thesis | Arts and Culture (MA)

Over the last thirty years, the globalization debate within the (contemporary) art discourse has gained and generated a lot of attention. However, in 2015, a real change has yet to happen. In this thesis I will lay out the debate, as well as look at how the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and the Tropenmuseum relate themselves to not only the discussion of globalization, but also to contemporary art with a global outlook (e.g. art from all over the world, as well as art that critically looks at the discussion of 'non-Western' art within art history). Even though the debate is going on for thirty years, the same questions are being asked, but what has really changed?

global art

stedelijk musem

tropenmusem

museum studies

roy villevoye

smba

project space

globalization

Author

Stienstra, Kari-Anne

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Art of the Contemporary World and World Art Studies

Supervisors

Zijlmans, C.J.M.

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en