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Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions

Kraynak

The Rise of the Therapeutic Museum

Decolonization and the Crisis of Knowledge
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98565-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Decolonization and the Crisis of Knowledge

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions

ISBN: 978-1-032-98565-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd


This book considers how and why respite rooms, emotional support brochures, well-being guides, psychological consultants, and care days are becoming common features in the museum of art.

Kraynak poses and answers this question, arguing that under its rightful ambition to decolonize––i.e., to rectify past and present inequalities–– the museum of the Global North is gradually replacing a commitment to knowledge, teaching, and learning with a focus upon care, healing, and well-being (the “therapeutic”). While this transformation might appear, on the surface, benign, culturally familiar, and politically desirable, the author counters these presumptions, probing the history and implications of “the therapeutic museum.” Here, curatorial attention shifts away from the art on view and onto the spectator, whom the museum imagines as a precarious psychological subject, and primary source of meaning. External forces–– new forms of knowledge, encounters with difficulty, even an engagement with art––are treated as a potential threat. As a result, the therapeutic museum not only encourages the
beholder to turn inward, but in so doing deflects attention from or scrutiny of its own practices and systems that perpetuate inequality. Among these are the ongoing legacies colonialism’s epistemic violence, which elevated the knowledge and aesthetic traditions of the Global North while suppressing those of the Global South. In contrast, the book proposes a “pluriversal” (versus universal) museum that maintains the political necessity of knowledge and views pedagogy as a path to emancipation. Emphasizing epistemic justice and the moral right to learn during a time when such freedoms are increasingly under attack, the book makes a powerful case for questioning rather than romanticizing the therapeutic museum, which it ultimately reveals to reinforce rather than challenge dominant power.

This is an important intervention that is essential reading for researchers and scholars in Art History, Visual Studies, Museum Studies, and Cultural Studies.

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Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced


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Introduction  Part I: Therapy  3.From Care Ethics to (Self)-Care Aesthetics 2. The Rise of the Therapeutic Museum  Part II: Epistemology 3. The (De)Colonial Museum, Restitution, and Epistemic Inequality 4. The Pluriversal Museum: Five Models of Epistemological Decolonization  Part III: Pedagogy  5. Towards a Pedagogy of Resistance


Janet Kraynak is Senior Lecturer in Modern and Contemporary Art History at Columbia University, USA.



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