Folk Art and the Art Museum

虽然英国民间文化的研究，以歌舞的形式，是相对完善的，而民俗学研究的批判历史是一个活跃的调查领域，视觉民间艺术仍然是探索不足。物质文化研究和民俗学研究可能已经成为一门学科，但英国艺术史学家几乎完全回避了对民间艺术的研究，正如亨利·格拉西在谈到美国艺术史时所指出的那样，将民间艺术纳入既定的叙述中不仅仅是一个添加或扩展的问题，而是对公认的历史框架和知识结构的彻底修订。这些研究研讨会将探讨英国“民间”艺术在艺术博物馆中的地位，汇集了艺术史，社会学，人类学和博物馆学领域的专家，包括来自欧洲和美国的学者。他们将帮助三个机构建立合作研究伙伴关系（泰特，英国的美国博物馆和Compton Verney）所有目前正在考虑新的民间艺术展览或展示。研讨会将使他们能够获得专业知识，并培养新的想法，这反过来又会为这些网站的民间艺术物品的策展和展示提供信息。康普顿·弗尼正在努力评估其民间艺术。艺术收藏品在游客中产生的反应和目前的展示。澳大利亚人权委员会的研讨会将大大加强这项工作，以便制定新的未来展览和展览。策展团队将对这一评估做出回应，在现有藏品中规划干预措施，并利用这些方法规划未来的民间艺术、民俗和仪式专题展览，其中将包括历史和当代艺术和手工艺品。英国美国博物馆的重要民间艺术收藏是博物馆成功向主要是英国观众展示独特的美国美学的关键。美国博物馆的民间艺术并不局限于一个画廊，而是在许多领域展出。自1961年美国博物馆开放以来，其大部分民间艺术收藏品都在改建的马厩建筑中展出。现在已经决定将这些收藏品安装在克拉弗顿庄园的前画廊里。泰特美术馆拥有英国艺术的国家收藏，并致力于探索和扩大英国艺术史的定义。研讨会将有助于确定和规划研究主题，以支持2011年泰特英国美术馆拟议的一个大型民间艺术展览。这份重新提交的申请得益于澳大利亚人权委员会同行审查员提出的有益意见，以及2009年2月举办的发展研究讲习班，泰特美术馆、美国博物馆和康普顿·弗尼的馆长和教育工作者参加了讲习班。讲习班重申了伙伴机构的承诺和建议的及时性。它也有助于澄清研讨会的英美焦点背后的原因，同时建议如何进一步纳入欧洲的观点。研讨会将讨论与英国民间艺术研究相关的不同主题。研讨会一将探讨民间艺术在艺术史既定叙事中的地位，并询问如何将其定义为一个类别。研讨会二将探讨民间艺术在现代艺术和当代实践中的使用，并考虑如何通知更广泛的考虑是什么构成“民间艺术”。研讨会三将比较美国和欧洲民间艺术的传统和接受，并利用这次考试的结果，以探索可能的新方法，英国民间艺术。最后，研讨会四将通过展望未来，并建议新的模式，可能是适当的民间艺术在早期研讨会的结果结束了计划。

While the study of British folk culture, in the form of song and dance, is relatively well-established, and while the critical history of folklore studies is an area of lively inquiry, the visual folk arts remain under-explored. Material culture studies and folklore studies may have advanced as academic disciplines, but British art historians have almost entirely eschewed the study of folk art. As Henry Glassie has indicated in relation to American art history, incorporating folk art into established narratives is not a matter of mere addition or extension, but of a thoroughgoing revision to accepted historical frameworks and intellectual structures. These research seminars will explore the place of British 'folk' art in the art museum, bringing together experts in the fields of art history, sociology, anthropology and museology, including scholars from Europe and the USA. They will help to build a collaborative research partnership between three institutions (Tate, the American Museum in Britain and Compton Verney) all currently considering new exhibitions or displays of folk art. The seminars will allow them to gain access to specialist knowledge and foster new ideas which will in turn inform the curation and display of folk art objects at these sites.Compton Verney is working towards an evaluation of its folk art collection both in terms of the responses it engenders in visitors and its current display. The AHRC seminars will greatly enhance this work in order to formulate new future displays and exhibitions. The curatorial team there will be responding to this evaluation by programming interventions within the existing collection and drawing upon these approaches to plan a future thematic exhibition on folk art, folklore and ritual which will include historic and contemporary art and artefacts. The important folk art collection at The American Museum in Britain is key to the museum's success in presenting a distinctly American aesthetic to a largely British audience. Folk art at the American Museum is not confined to one gallery but is showcased in many areas. Since The American Museum opened in 1961, much of its folk art collection has been displayed in the converted stables building. The decision has now been made to install this collection in the former picture gallery of Claverton Manor. Tate holds the national collection of British art, and is committed to exploring and expanding the definition of British art history. The workshops would help to identify and map out the research themes to underpin a major folk art exhibition proposed for Tate Britain in 2011. This resubmitted application has benefited from the useful comments offered by the AHRC peer reviewers, and a developmental research workshop involving curators and educators from Tate, the American Museum and Compton Verney, held in February 2009. The workshop re-affirmed the commitment of the partner institutions, and the timeliness of the proposal. It also helped to clarify the reasoning behind the Anglo-American focus of the seminars, while suggesting ways of further incorporating European perspectives.The seminars will each address a different theme pertinent to the study of British folk art. Seminar one will examine the place of folk art in relation to the established narratives of art history, and interrogate how it is defined as a category. Seminar two will explore the use of folk art in modern art and contemporary practice and consider how this informs the broader consideration of what constitutes 'folk art'. Seminar three will compare the traditions and reception of American and European folk art, and use the outcomes of this examination to explore possible new approaches to British folk art. Finally, seminar four will conclude the programme by looking to the future and suggesting new modes of presentation and display which might be appropriate for folk art in the light of the outcomes of earlier workshops.