Japanese dreams: Kurokawa Kishō’s annex to the Van Gogh Museum and its later re-appropriation
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Japanese dreams : Kurokawa Kishō’s annex to the Van Gogh Museum and its later re-appropriation. / Sejrup, Jens.
In: Museum History Journal, Vol. 11, No. 1, 22.01.2018, p. 76-93.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Japanese dreams
T2 - Kurokawa Kishō’s annex to the Van Gogh Museum and its later re-appropriation
AU - Sejrup, Jens
PY - 2018/1/22
Y1 - 2018/1/22
N2 - This paper traces the history of a Japanese-funded annex to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam over the past twenty-five years. The analysis focuses on three key years in the building’s history: 1991, 1999, and 2015. Critically examining public debate and media coverage of the building in contemporary Dutch- and Japanese-language sources, I argue that changing claims and public perceptions of Japan reflected the country’s shifting economic fortunes and international position during the period. The sources consistently framed the Japanese-designed building within a language of dreams. However, the dreams gradually transformed from desires and nostalgic projections to sleepiness and inactivity. Japan, and the annex as its symbolic embodiment, remained a ‘place of dreams’, but the nature of those ‘dreams’ changed dramatically over the period studied.
AB - This paper traces the history of a Japanese-funded annex to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam over the past twenty-five years. The analysis focuses on three key years in the building’s history: 1991, 1999, and 2015. Critically examining public debate and media coverage of the building in contemporary Dutch- and Japanese-language sources, I argue that changing claims and public perceptions of Japan reflected the country’s shifting economic fortunes and international position during the period. The sources consistently framed the Japanese-designed building within a language of dreams. However, the dreams gradually transformed from desires and nostalgic projections to sleepiness and inactivity. Japan, and the annex as its symbolic embodiment, remained a ‘place of dreams’, but the nature of those ‘dreams’ changed dramatically over the period studied.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Architecture
KW - Europe
KW - Globalisation
KW - Japan
KW - Japonisme
KW - Museum
KW - public debate
KW - Vincent van Gogh
KW - Architecture
KW - Europe
KW - globalization
KW - Japan
KW - Japonisme
KW - museum
KW - public debate
KW - Vincent van Gogh
U2 - 10.1080/19369816.2018.1427344
DO - 10.1080/19369816.2018.1427344
M3 - Journal article
VL - 11
SP - 76
EP - 93
JO - Museum History Journal
JF - Museum History Journal
SN - 1936-9816
IS - 1
ER -
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