Curating archives in exhibitions of fine art

该研究旨在调查历史艺术展览中如何以及为什么使用档案。它将研究档案管理员和策展人的展示策略，以及他们的目标，并分析这些展示实践产生的效果和意义。这项研究直接来自我作为国家美术馆研究中心主任的角色，以及我自己在策划、研究和解释档案方面的实践。该项目有可能为了解目前如何构思和设计展览以及博物馆如何将我们的文化遗产传达给公众做出宝贵的贡献。该计划将考虑利用档案作为一种手段，扩大和/或加深公众对艺术收藏的参与；或者是对史学越来越感兴趣的表现。历史艺术展览将与当代艺术展览中档案的放置进行比较，这一现象可以在更广泛的背景下理解，在过去的一个世纪里，当代艺术界发展了一种更自我反思的展览实践。这种做法与将档案纳入历史艺术展览有何关系？将档案纳入历史艺术展览的目的是什么？策展人在历史领域的做法是什么？它在评论家和参观者中引起了什么反应？在历史和当代策展实践之间是否存在二分法，或者在艺术和/或历史主义框架下，两者之间是否存在连续体？

The research proposes to investigate how and why archives are used within exhibitions of historic art. It will study the display strategies of archivists and curators, and their objectives, as well as analyse the effects and meanings produced by these display practices. This research emerges directly from my role as Head of the Research Centre at the National Gallery and my own practice in curating, researching and interpreting archives. The project has the potential to make a valuable contribution to understanding how exhibitions are currently conceived and designed and therefore how museums mediate our cultural heritage to the public.The project will consider the use of archives as a means to broaden and/or to deepen public engagement with the art collections; or as manifestations of a growing interest in historiography. Exhibitions of historic art will be examined in comparison with the placement of archives within displays of contemporary art, a phenomenon that can be understood within the wider context of a more self-reflective exhibition practice that has developed in the contemporary art world over the past century. How does this practice relate to placing archives within exhibitions of historic art and what is the purpose of including archives in such exhibitions? What is the approach of curators in the historic field and what response does it engender in critics and visitors? Is there a dichotomy between historical and contemporary curatorial practice or is there a continuum between the two informed by an artistic and/or historicist framework?