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

近年来，艺术市场及其实践越来越受到学术界的关注，也继续吸引着普通大众。在艺术品市场的更广泛的结构中，“古董”仍然是一个非常受欢迎的主题，电视节目如“古董路演”经常成为收视率最高的节目，人们不能忽视从“讨价还价"到”洛夫乔伊“的其他节目，这些节目揭示和神话化了古董贸易的做法和古董商的形象。然而，古董贸易的历史，对它的实践的认识，以及对古董贸易在我们对古董的迷恋的复杂和不断变化的景观中的作用的清晰理解，仍然是一个模糊和鲜为人知的文化现象。在博物馆领域，博物馆物品传记中的古董商历史经常被压制或从公共领域的博物馆物品解释中错位。拟议中的“经销商年”项目旨在重新关注公共博物馆发展中的古董贸易历史以及古董贸易在英国文化生活中的重要性。 该项目是根据澳大利亚人权委员会的研究项目“古董商：20世纪世纪英国古董贸易的文化地理学研究（2013-2016），并借鉴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小时的档案），8个主要经销商档案和30多名志愿者组成的活跃社区，致力于将数据输入项目网站和编目，保存经销商档案。“经销商年”旨在共同制作创新的博物馆解释材料，让利益相关者参与研究项目产生的主题，并在更广泛的公共领域传播和嵌入关键的研究成果。我们的目标是揭示新的和以前隐藏的故事被告知世界知名和熟悉的博物馆对象的潜力，并展示在国家和国际范围内的公共博物馆解释采用新的叙事的潜力。 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合作，（V&A，国家博物馆，苏格兰，阿什莫林博物馆，夫人杠杆艺术画廊，鲍斯博物馆和坦普尔纽萨姆），一所大学的艺术画廊，一个社区剧院和一个领先的古董经销商业务，提供一个创新的博物馆解释干预，展览，研讨会和公共活动计划，培训讲习班和一场引人注目的戏剧表演。 项目成果将包括6个独立的“隐藏历史”线索，涉及主要博物馆合作伙伴收藏的多达20件物品;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个单独设计的系列研讨会;在3个合作博物馆举办的3个公众参与“对话”系列活动;在每个合作博物馆举办工作人员和志愿者培训讲习班;举办一个为期3个月的小型展览，将经销商档案与博物馆文物重新结合起来，并举办一个相关的档案讲习班;由学生演员领导并由一位著名的戏剧导演学者执导的戏剧“Quinneys”的高调公开演出;一个相关的参与性研讨会，由戏剧和表演领域的领先学者领导;戏剧和研讨会的前景主题对于构建古董商的社会和文化身份至关重要。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，旨在促进公共博物馆物品新解释潜力的永久转变，并使各种利益相关者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