Recipes as Culinary Communication in a Canadian Art Museum: Lobster Soufflé, Beef Stroganoff, and the Tensions of Gourmet Cooking in the 1960s

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-41
Author(s):  
Irina D. Mihalache
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Multiple Voices ◽  
Canadian Art ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
The 1960S

This article proposes that recipes are a form of culinary communication, suggesting that a recipe's biography is one of communicative moments, negotiations, and multiple voices. This framework is applied to The Art of Cooking, a series of culinary demonstrations organized by the Women's Committee at the Art Gallery of Toronto in the 1960s. The events, featuring chefs such as James Beard and Dione Lucas, were organized around the logics of gourmet cooking but departed from it when faced with the realities of women's daily lives. The research is based on archival documents and media coverage of these very popular events, which offer an opportunity to explore the mythologies and narratives about gourmet cooking in the 1960s. This article argues that communications about a recipe are part of the recipe's evolving biography and need to be analyzed alongside ingredients, instructions, makers, and users. In addition, the article advocates for the inclusion of women's committees’ histories to those of art museums in North America.

scholarly journals The School Teacher and the Art Museum: A Multi- Case Study of Online Canadian Art Museum Teacher Resources | L’enseignant scolaire et le musée des beaux-arts : une étude de cas multiples des ressources en ligne des musées des beaux-arts pour les enseignants

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 36-46
Author(s):  
Julie Etheridge
Keyword(s):  
Online Teaching ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
High School Teacher ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Online Resources ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Teacher Resources ◽  
Canadian Art ◽  
Teacher Researcher

Abstract: This study seeks to better understand the online resources and lesson contents that Canadian art museums offer secondary school art teachers. The author conducted a content analysis of online teacher resources and lessons developed by four Canadian art museums during 2016. By looking at the various resources through the lens of a high school teacher/researcher, the author highlighted how these resources presented differences in curriculum and fostered self-reflection in students. The relationship between the art museum and the school teacher was examined. To better understand this relationship, further research on online resources developed by museums to increase pedagogical possibilities should be conducted.Key Words: Teacher; Museum; Online Teaching Resources; Art EducationRésumé : Cette étude vise une meilleure compréhension du contenu des leçons et des ressources en ligne mises à la disposition des éducateurs artistiques du secondaire par les musées des beaux-arts canadiens. L’auteur a analysé le contenu des ressources et des leçons en ligne offertes aux enseignants en 2016 par quatre musées des beaux-arts canadiens. En examinant les diverses ressources du point de vue d’un enseignant/chercheur au secondaire, l’auteur met en évidence les différences curriculaires de ces ressources et l’autoréflexion suscitée par ces ressources chez les étudiants. La relation entre le musée des beaux-arts et l’enseignant scolaire y est également étudiée. Il faudrait, pour mieux comprendre cette relation, mener d’autres recherches sur les ressources en ligne développées par les musées dans le but d’élargir l’éventail pédagogique.Mots-clés : enseignant; musée; ressources en ligne; éducation artistique

Charting a New Course for Chinese Diaspora Archaeology in North America

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
J. Ryan Kennedy ◽  
Chelsea Rose
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
19Th Century ◽  
Chinese Diaspora ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Pacific World ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

This chapter provides a brief history of the field of Chinese diaspora archaeology in North America, from its beginning in the 1960s to its present state, and it places this work within the context of 19th-century Chinese migration throughout the Pacific world. Although the body of work produced by archaeologists of the Chinese diaspora has provided tremendous insights into the daily lives of 19th-century Chinese migrants, it has been hampered by a continued reliance on models of continuity and change that frequently ignore the transnational lives of Chinese migrants. This has made Chinese diaspora archaeology slow to impact broader archaeological and anthropological discussions, and this chapter argues that embracing transnational and diasporic models will allow archaeologists of the Chinese diaspora to make important contributions outside of the field.

scholarly journals Consuming the Tower of Babel and Japanese Public Art Museums—The Exhibition of Bruegel’s “The Tower of Babel” and the Babel-mori Project

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 158
Author(s):  
Kei Uno
Keyword(s):  
Public Art ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
Advertising Campaign ◽  
Tower Of Babel ◽  
Food Items ◽  
The University ◽  
Important Evidence

Two Japanese public art museums, the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery and the National Art Museum of Osaka, hosted Project Babel, which included the Babel-mori (Heaping plate of food items imitating the Tower of Babel) project. This was part of an advertising campaign for the traveling exhibition “BABEL Collection of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen: Bruegel’s ‘The Tower of Babel’ and Great 16th Century Masters” in 2017. However, Babel-mori completely misconstrued the meaning of the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:1–9. I explore the opinions of the curators at the art museums who hosted it and the university students who took my interview on this issue. I will also discuss the treatment of artwork with religious connotations in light of education in Japan. These exhibitions of Christian artwork provide important evidence on the contemporary reception of Christianity in Japan and, more broadly, on Japanese attitudes toward religious minorities.

THE FIFTH PROLETARIAN MUSEUM. HISTORY OF CREATION AND ACTIVITIES OF THE MOSCOW ART MUSEUM IN THE 1920S

2020 ◽  
pp. 52-65
Author(s):  
Nataliya B. Bezrukova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Policy ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
New Economic Policy ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
History Of ◽  
Trained Staff ◽  
New Form

The article highlights the history of the so-called proletarian museums that opened in Moscow’s working-class suburbs in the 1920s. The study of their activities seems relevant, since it opens up the opportunity for a deeper study of the history of art museums in Moscow in the 1920s. Special attention is given to the Fifth Proletarian museum, which was a part of the State Tretyakov Gallery. More archival documents have survived on this museum than on any other of the proletarian museums. After studying some unpublished documents in Russia’s major archives, the author has discovered some important, previously unknown facts about these museums. This article takes a close look at how the paperwork was handled at the museum, how the items were registered, accounted for and taken care of and how the collections were accumulated and organized. Also thoroughly described in the article is the history of the museum’s closure as the author analyzes why it was eventually shut down. Moscow’s proletarian museums went down in history as an original new form of art institutions targeting “uncultured” visitors. Unfortunately, these museums were short-lived as they fell victim to the lack of funding and shortage of trained staff during the New Economic Policy era (1921–1928).

scholarly journals Art Museum Dining: The History of Eating Out at the Art Gallery of Ontario

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-300
Author(s):  
Irina Mihalache
Keyword(s):  
American Art ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Art Gallery ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eating Out ◽  
Culinary History ◽  
Art Gallery Of Ontario ◽  
Culinary Culture

Using archival materials from the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), this article recreates the culinary history of the art museum and advocates for the inclusion of food in the literature on art museum history and practice. The AGO, like many other North American art museums, has a rich culinary history, which started with dining events organized by volunteer women’s committees since the 1940s. These culinary programs generated a culinary culture grounded in gourmet ideologies, which became the grounds for the first official eating spaces in the museum in the mid-1970s. Awareness of the museum’s culinary history offers an opportunity to liberate the museum from prescriptive theoretical models which are not anchored in institutional realities; these hide aspects of gender and class which become visible through food narratives.KeywordsArt museum restaurants, culinary programming, women’s committees, multisensorial museums, Art Gallery of Ontario

scholarly journals Collecting Pandemic Phenomena: Reflections on Rapid Response Collecting and the Art Museum

Collections ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 155019062098084
Author(s):  
Sandro Debono
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Art Museums ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Specific Context ◽  
Development Methodology ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
Potential Use

Rapid Response Collecting has been a most apt methodology with which to document the COVID-19 pandemic for an increasing number of museums. As the phenomenon unfolded across the globe, museums searched for and head-hunted the truth-revealing objects that could tell the stories and histories of the present to current and future generations. Indeed, the COVID-19 pandemic took Rapid Response Collecting to a higher level. A methodology originally conceived for a sporadic phenomenon happening within a specific context during the early years of the 21st century gained much more traction almost overnight. This paper shall make a case for a better understanding of the potential use and application of Rapid Response Collecting by art museums. It shall look into the defining values of this collections development methodology and how these can be applied and adopted when acquiring works of art. In doing so, it shall seek to understand to what extent the mainstream version of Rapid Response Collecting can be adapted for the needs, purposes and requirements of the art museum.

Plant Stories are Love Stories Too: Moss + Curation

Public ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (64) ◽  
pp. 54-61
Author(s):  
Toby Katrine Lawrence ◽  
Michelle Jacques
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Art History ◽  
Art Museum ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Knowledge Systems ◽  
Love Stories ◽  
White Settler ◽  
Black Canadian ◽  
Learning Research ◽  
Professional Resources

In 2020, after a year of dreaming, we officially embarked on the development of Moss Projects: Curatorial Learning + Research, an educational and philosophical space that aims at peeling away the colonial layers of the art museum, within the context of Turtle Island (now North America), to imagine something else. This initiative supports peer-to-peer pedagogies alongside Indigenous, Black, and People of Colour-led and allied inquiry and practices, valuing diverse knowledge systems and modes of organization beyond dominant parameters of curation, art, and art history. As white settler and Black Canadian curators, we are founding Moss Projects as a collaborative, reflexive, and praxis-based process, utilizing our professional resources for curatorial incubation and to establish spaces and mechanisms for sharing cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary methodologies.

Culture and the popular: Introduction to essays in memory of Brian Rigby

2018 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 293-299
Author(s):  
Michael Kelly
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The Us ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Uk ◽  
French Cultural Studies

This article introduces the special number of French Cultural Studies commemorating the role of Brian Rigby as the journal’s first Managing Editor. It situates his contribution in the emergence of cultural history and French cultural studies during the rapid expansion of higher education from the 1960s in France, the UK, the US and other countries. It suggests that these new areas of study saw cultural activities in a broader social context and opened the way to a wider understanding of culture, in which popular culture played an increasingly important part. It argues that the study of popular culture can illuminate some of the most mundane experiences of everyday life, and some of the most challenging. It can also help to understand the rapidly changing cultural environment in which our daily lives are now conducted.

Wilhelm Von Humboldt and North American Ethnolinguistics

1990 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 111-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. F. Konrad Koerner
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
North American ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Wilhelm Von Humboldt ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
Language And Culture ◽  
Language Structure ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
The Relationship

Summary Noam Chomsky’s frequent references to the work of Wilhelm von Humboldt during the 1960s produced a considerable revival of interest in this 19th-century scholar in North America. This paper demonstrates that there has been a long-standing influence of Humboldt’s ideas on American linguistics and that no ‘rediscovery’ was required. Although Humboldt’s first contacts with North-American scholars goes back to 1803, the present paper is confined to the posthumous phase of his influence which begins with the work of Heymann Steinthal (1823–1899) from about 1850 onwards. This was also a time when many young Americans went to Germany to complete their education; for instance William Dwight Whitney (1827–1894) spent several years at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin (1850–1854), and in his writings on general linguistics one can trace Humboldtian ideas. In 1885 Daniel G. Brinton (1837–1899) published an English translation of a manuscript by Humboldt on the structure of the verb in Amerindian languages. A year later Franz Boas (1858–1942) arrived from Berlin soon to establish himself as the foremost anthropologist with a strong interest in native language and culture. From then on we encounter Humboldtian ideas in the work of a number of North American anthropological linguists, most notably in the work of Edward Sapir (1884–1939). This is not only true with regard to matters of language classification and typology but also with regard to the philosophy of language, specifically, the relationship between a particular language structure and the kind of thinking it reflects or determines on the part of its speakers. Humboldtian ideas of ‘linguistic relativity’, enunciated in the writings of Whitney, Brinton, Boas, and others, were subsequently developed further by Sapir’s student Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897–1941). The transmission of the so-called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis – which still today is attracting interest among cultural anthropologists and social psychologists, not only in North America – is the focus of the remainder of the paper. A general Humboldtian approach to language and culture, it is argued, is still present in the work of Dell Hymes and several of his students.

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