DOI article:
Konopka, Emiliana: Antropologia sztuki rdzennej ludności regionu nordyckiego: reprezentacja Kalaallit Nunaat i Sápmi w muzeach skandynawskich
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.72800#0172
Anthropology of Art of Indigenous Peoples of the Nordic Region: Representation Antropologia
of Kalaallit Nunaat and Sópmi in Scandinavian Museums sztuki...
This essay is an attempt to present the most important points of the current discus-
sion about the cultural remains of colonialism in Scandinavia by analyzing the rep-
resentation of indigenous art in museums. I would like to focus on the reasons why
Saami and Inuit art was usually excluded from the traditional art history narrative and
placed almost exclusively in collections of ethnographic or historical museums. On the
examples of the strategies applied by three museums: the National Museum of Den-
mark in Copenhagen, Nordic Museum in Stockholm, and the National Museum of Art,
Architecture and Design in Oslo, the following issues are considered: what determines
the selection of indigenous artists and their works, how they are exhibited, what place
indigenous art holds in the national canon of art today, and how these museum strategies
perpet ate, or not, stereotypes of Kalaallit Nunaat and Sapmi. For the sake of this paper,
based on ethnohistory, historical anthropology and anthropology of art in a Nordic con-
text, the terms 'art' and 'artist' go beyond the traditional definitions used in art history.
of Kalaallit Nunaat and Sópmi in Scandinavian Museums sztuki...
This essay is an attempt to present the most important points of the current discus-
sion about the cultural remains of colonialism in Scandinavia by analyzing the rep-
resentation of indigenous art in museums. I would like to focus on the reasons why
Saami and Inuit art was usually excluded from the traditional art history narrative and
placed almost exclusively in collections of ethnographic or historical museums. On the
examples of the strategies applied by three museums: the National Museum of Den-
mark in Copenhagen, Nordic Museum in Stockholm, and the National Museum of Art,
Architecture and Design in Oslo, the following issues are considered: what determines
the selection of indigenous artists and their works, how they are exhibited, what place
indigenous art holds in the national canon of art today, and how these museum strategies
perpet ate, or not, stereotypes of Kalaallit Nunaat and Sapmi. For the sake of this paper,
based on ethnohistory, historical anthropology and anthropology of art in a Nordic con-
text, the terms 'art' and 'artist' go beyond the traditional definitions used in art history.