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- Title
Art and cultural institutions as social extensions of personal self-identity.
- Authors
Olender, Jacek
- Abstract
The paper discusses artworks and artefacts considered as both cultural heritage and meaningful tokens for personal self-identity. The arguments come mostly from phenomenological understanding of self-identity and art, but the terminological toolkit comes mostly from the Extended Mind Thesis. While many museologists and theorists of culture argue that objects presented in a particular social context can shape group identity, I believe in taking this question to a lower, personal level. In this paper, I argue that we build our self-identity partially by anchoring our memories with significant art and heritage objects. I state that artworks, mediated by cultural context immersion of museums and galleries, serve as self-identity extensions. Since I find both selfidentity and art structured as sets of cultural meanings wrapped in material scaffoldings, I draw a relation between those two, showing the crucial meaning of material cultural objects for the formation of our self-identity.
- Subjects
ART; IDENTITY (Psychology); CULTURAL property
- Publication
Avant, 2015, Vol 6, Issue 2/3, p57
- ISSN
2082-7598
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.26913/60202015.0112.0003