The Avatars of Nourishment. Industry and Metaphysics
The Avatars of Nourishment. Industry and Metaphysics
Author(s): Şerban AnghelescuSubject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Muzeul Ţăranului Român, Editura Martor
Keywords: nourishment; The Museum of The Romanian Peasant; The 1900 Universal Exhibition; museology;
Summary/Abstract: Unlike the 1900 Universal Exhibition, which was overwhelmingly industrial and laic par excellence, with exhibits lacking any deep symbolism and intrinsic beauty, in The Romanian Peasant Museum, nourishment is conceived and exhibited in its symbolic dimensions: a natural passage from daily life to metaphysics, sacrifice, initiation, alms. These ritual dimensions were not at stake at the beginning of the 20th century, whose contemporaries looked in the opposite direction: modernity. It was unnoticed even in The Ethnographic Museum of National, Decorative and Industrial Art founded in 1906 by Alexandru Tzigara-Samurcaş.
Journal: Martor. Revue d’Anthropologie du Musée du Paysan Roumain
- Issue Year: 2008
- Issue No: 13
- Page Range: 145-152
- Page Count: 8
- Language: English