La politique de l’Art au musée national de Katmandou (Népal)
Since the 19th century, the National Museum of Kathmandu has been used by the Nepalese government to promote a coherent vision of the nation, its history and its art. In this place, art, which has become national, assumes a political character as the medium of a homogeneous and prestigious image of...
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Laboratoire d'Ethnologie et de Sociologie Comparative
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Ateliers d'Anthropologie |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/ateliers/10253 |
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| Summary: | Since the 19th century, the National Museum of Kathmandu has been used by the Nepalese government to promote a coherent vision of the nation, its history and its art. In this place, art, which has become national, assumes a political character as the medium of a homogeneous and prestigious image of Nepal. Nevertheless, the two art galleries in which it is exhibited offer paradoxical discourses on “Nepalese art”: one raises the art of the Kathmandu Valley to the rank of national art; the other, based on a Buddhist history of Nepal, broadens this category to works from all over the national territory. This article will show that this paradox is in fact characteristic of a particular trait in Nepal that consists in never completely erasing the past. Through this museum, structured as a conglomeration of different national discourses, the problematic history of defining a “Nepalese art” and constructing a museum representation of Nepal will be apprehended. |
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| ISSN: | 2117-3869 |