A Programme of Absolute Disorder : Decolonizing the Museum （Library Binding）

Vergès, Françoise/ Gilroy, Paul (FRW)/ Thackway, Melissa (TRN)

Pluto Press（2024/07発売）

Pluto Press（2024/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 224 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780745349619
• DDC分類 069

Full Description

'A complete overhaul of the Western museum tradition' - Publishers Weekly

In A Programme of Absolute Disorder, Françoise Vergès strips away the veneer of the universal Western museum to reveal its origins as the foundation of liberal ideology.

By exploring the history of the Louvre, and following the radical tradition of Frantz Fanon, she argues that the modern institution cannot just be fixed with a more diverse board or by finding new ways to display the art.

Instead, she demands a 'post-museum': a space that rejects the financialization of art, acknowledges the bloody history of its collections, and prioritises the labour and dignity of those who clean, guard and inhabit its halls.

Contents

Preface

Introduction

1. A Programme of Absolute Disorder

2. The Museum: A Battlefield

3. The Louvre, Napoleon, Capture, the Slave

4. Black is the model, white the frame

5. A Museum without Objects

Epilogue: Decolonial Tactics

Notes