On The New Boris Groys

Definitions

Culture: The arts and other manifestations of the human intellectual regarded by the collectivity. 

Archives: A collection of historical documents or records providing information on a place, institution, or people. 

Memory: something remembered from the past; a recollection:

Valuable: Adjective, worth a great deal of money

Noun, a thing that is of great worth, especially a small item of personal property:

Trash: discarded matter; refuse:

Refliction on chapter9 , The Boundery Between the Cultural Archieve and the Proframe Relm

Boris Grays’s book  On The New explores the different ways art can be interpreted throughout time. As well as what makes something a new idea innovation, creativity,  or the current culture. Grays ideas were extremely complex and I think I will need to read the book again to fully understand the points he was trying to convey. Regardless of the complexity, there are still some chapters that made me look at the creation of art differently. 

The idea of a cultural archive mentioned in chapter nine stod out because I am interested in becoming a public historian. Which will allow me to analize a particular culture at a certain time in history. Similar, to other sections of the book (The New and Fashion) Grays explores the meaning of a very broad idea. Different aspects of culture have different meanings in a community. Cultural archives can be mental or physical pieces of history stored in museums or libraries. One of the reasons I was drawn to history and curatorial studies is because it would allow me to hear as well as tell stories. I will be able to do this by analyzing the cultural archive.  The interesting aspect of archives is that it focuses on the past and not the new. However, the focus on new concepts can bring out new things that have not been analyzed in our culture. The other aspect of the chapter is the profane realm. For example, consolidation had a different impact on the European cultural archives than the native cultural archives. Another interesting thing Grays brings up is that Monalisa can be compared to something that is less valued and still is seen as a great deepening on that society’s cultural archives. 

I appreciated this chapter because it allowed me to reflect on two of my courses Museum Preservation and Women and Gender in Modern Africa, Museum preservation goes over the different ways to take care of valuable items. As well as the ethics: whether or not to return items to their nation of origin. The course women and gender in Africa focuses on the colonial period during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The Europeans took everything that they believed was valuable like raw materials and artwork. Both classes deal with memory and the women and gender course focus on the different ways these events could be interpreted. This chapter was interesting because I could directly compare it to what I am learning now.

Reflection on Capter 6: The New and Fashion

Definitions

Fashion: A a popular trend, especially in styles of dress and ornament or manners of behavior:

“his hair is cut in the latest fashion”

What I Learned

• Fashion does not have a historical basis. It is considered a phonominon that will pass.
• The future and fashion are similer because hey are both unpredictable
• Their is a fine line between being uniue and orginal.