SOLD! The Year of the Dealer: Antique Dealers, Art Markets and Museums

近年来，艺术品市场及其实践越来越受到学术界的关注，也继续吸引着广大公众的关注。在更广泛的艺术市场结构中，“古董”仍然是一个非常受欢迎的话题，像“古董路演”这样的电视节目经常成为收视率最高的节目，人们不能忽视其他几十个节目，从《讨价还价》到《爱情乔伊》，它们揭示了古董交易的做法和古董商的形象，并将其神化。然而，古董贸易的历史、对其做法的认识，以及对古董贸易在我们对古董迷恋的复杂而不断变化的格局中所扮演的角色的清楚理解，仍然是一种鲜为人知的文化现象。在博物馆世界，古董商在博物馆物品传记中的历史往往被压制或与公共领域中的博物馆物品的解释脱节。拟议的“交易商年”项目旨在重新关注古董贸易在公共博物馆发展中的历史，以及古董贸易在英国文化生活中的重要性。该项目基于AHRC研究项目“古董交易商：20世纪的英国古董贸易，一个文化地理”(2013-2016)，并利用了该项目汇集的丰富研究资源，包括36个口述历史访谈(超过100个小时的档案)、8个主要交易商档案和一个由30多名志愿者组成的活跃社区，这些志愿者致力于将数据输入到项目网站以及经销商档案的编目和保存。“交易商年”旨在联合制作创新的博物馆口译材料，让利益相关者参与研究项目所产生的主题，并在更广泛的公共领域传播和嵌入关键的研究成果。我们的目标是揭示关于世界知名和熟悉的博物馆物品的新的和以前隐藏的故事的潜力，并展示在国家和国际范围内的公共博物馆解释中采用新叙事的潜力。在一年的时间里，项目团队和成熟的项目志愿者社区将与6个国家和地区博物馆(V&A、苏格兰国家博物馆、阿什莫尔博物馆、夫人杠杆艺术馆、鲍斯博物馆和Temple Newsam)、一个大学美术馆、一个社区剧院和一个领先的古董经销商企业合作，提供博物馆口译干预、展览、讲习班和公共活动、培训讲习班和备受瞩目的戏剧表演的创新方案。项目成果将包括：主要博物馆合作伙伴收藏的多达20件藏品的6个“隐藏的历史”小径；与博物馆合作伙伴共同制作的、基于博物馆与艺术市场之间关系出现的关键问题的4个单独设计的系列讲习班；在3个伙伴博物馆举行的3次公众参与的“对话”活动；每个伙伴博物馆的工作人员和志愿者培训讲习班；交易商档案与博物馆物品重新结合的3个月小规模展览和相关的档案讲习班；由学生演员领导、由戏剧导演方面的一位知名学者执导的话剧“昆尼斯”的高调公开演出；联合举办的参与性讲习班，由戏剧和表演领域的一位著名学者领导；戏剧和讲习班的主题都是建立古董商社会和文化特征的核心。这一系列丰富的活动通过一个专门的项目网站进行管理和传播，旨在促进对公共博物馆文物进行新解释的可能性的永久性转变，并让各种利益攸关方和公众参与研究项目的结果。

The art market and its practices has attracted increasing attention from academics in recent years, it also continues to fascinate the general public. Within the broader structures of the art market 'antiques' remains an immensely popular subject, with TV programmes such as the 'Antiques Roadshow' regularly in the top viewing figures and one cannot ignore the scores of other programmes from 'Bargain Hunt' to 'Lovejoy' that reveal, and mythologise, the practices of the antique trade and the figure of the antique dealer. And yet the history of the antique trade, an awareness of its practices, and a clear understanding of the role of the antique trade in the complex and shifting landscape of our fascination with antiques remains an obscure and little understood cultural phenomenon. In the museum world, the history of antique dealers in the biography of museum objects has often been supressed or dislocated from the interpretation of museum objects in the public domain. The proposed 'Year of the Dealer' project aims to direct renewed attention to the history of the antique trade in the development of public museums and the significance of the antique trade in British cultural life. The project is based on the AHRC research project 'Antique Dealers: the British Antique Trade in the 20th century, a cultural geography' (2013-2016) and draws on the rich research resources that the project assembled, including 36 oral history interviews (more than 100 hours of archive), 8 major dealer archives and an active community of more than 30 volunteers working on data input into the project websites and on cataloguing and conservation of dealer archives. The 'Year of the Dealer' aims to co-produce innovative museum interpretation materials, to engage stakeholders in the themes that have emerged as a result of the research project and to disseminate and embed key research findings in the wider public domain. We aim to reveal the potential for new and previously hidden stories to be told about world-renowned and familiar museum objects and to demonstrate the potential for the adoption of the new narratives in public museum interpretation on a national and international scale. Over the course of one year the project team and the well established community of project volunteers will work in collaboration with 6 national and regional museums (The V&A, National Museum, Scotland, The Ashmolean Museum, The Lady Lever Art Gallery, The Bowes Museum, and Temple Newsam), a university art gallery, a community theatre and a leading antique dealer business to deliver an innovative programme of museum interpretation interventions, exhibitions, workshops and public events, training workshops and a high profile theatre performance. The project outcomes will include 6 individual 'hidden history' trails of up to 20 objects in the collections of major museum partners; a series of 4 individually designed workshops based on key questions that have emerged on the relationships between museums and the art market, co-produced with museum partners; a series of 3 public engagement 'In Conversation' events at 3 of the partner museums; staff and volunteer training workshops at each partner museum; a small-scale 3 month exhibition reuniting dealer archives with museum objects and an associated archives workshop; a high-profile, public performance of the play 'Quinneys', led by student actors and directed by a leading academic in theatre directing; an associated participatory workshop, led by a leading academic in theatre and performance; both play and workshop foreground themes of which are central to the construction of the social and cultural identity of the antique dealer. This rich series of activities, managed and disseminated through a dedicated project website, aims to facilitate a permanent shift in the potential for new interpretations of public museum objects and engage a variety of stakeholders and the public in the results of the research project