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Musée imaginaire

Musée imaginaire

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A musée imaginaire or imaginary museum is a collection of works of art that a person holds as essential or favourite, so that given the opportunity he or she would bring them together in a single ideal museum.

Téniers, L'Archiduc Léopold-Guillaume dans sa galerie de peintures, c. 1647, Madrid, Prado Museum. This is one of the photographs Malraux uses to illustrate his point.

The term is closely associated with André Malraux's Musée imaginaire, an essay from 1947 in which the principle it refers to is dramatised.[1][2] Other personalities have since made their own selection known, such as Michel Butor in Le Musée imaginaire de Michel Butor, published in 2015 and republished in 2019.[3]

More recently, Nicolas Malevé has compared the scale of Malraux's Musée imaginaire to that of datasets for training computer vision, such as ImageNet. As Douglas Crimp noted, Malraux's Musée imaginaire depends upon the existence of photographs. In Malevé's words, Crimp argued that "art history cannot produce a universal plane of comparison without another organising device: photography“.[4]

See also

Bibliography

  • Malraux, André (1996). Le musée imaginaire. Paris: Gallimard. ISBN 9782070329489. OCLC 1126353728.

References

  1. [1]
    Grasskamp, Walter (6 February 2017). "The Museum in Print: André Malraux's Musée Imaginaire and André Vigneau's Photographic Encyclopaedia of Art". Images of the Art Museum: 301–316. doi:10.1515/9783110341362-015. ISBN 9783110341362.
  2. [2]
    Allan, Derek (2 April 2020). "Has André Malraux's imaginary museum come into its own?". Apollo. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  3. [3]
    Butor, Michel (2019). Le musée imaginaire de Michel Butor : 105 oeuvres décisives de la peinture occidentale (in French). Paris: Flammarion. p. 368. ISBN 9782081450752. OCLC 1089413748.
  4. [4]
    Malevé, Nicolas (2021-12-01). "On the data set's ruins". AI & Society. 36 (4): 1117–1131. doi:10.1007/s00146-020-01093-w. ISSN 1435-5655. S2CID 228883701.
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