Cass, N orcid.org/0000-0003-4288-1515 (2020) Provoking numinous experience: contemporary art interventions at the Brontë Parsonage Museum. International Journal of Heritage Studies, 26 (3). pp. 299-316. ISSN 1352-7258
Abstract
The early part of the twenty-first century has seen a dramatic rise in the number of heritage organisations commissioning artists to create ‘interventions’, contemporary artworks to be seen juxtaposed with their sites, buildings and collections. This article takes as its case study one such site, the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth, West Yorkshire which, since 2006, has had a formal Contemporary Arts Programme. Through the examination of interventions from this programme and consideration of visitor comments in response, this article suggests that numen and cognitive dissonance are particularly appropriate concepts to explore contemporary art interventions in heritage sites. I argue that while interventions are thought to provoke new readings of historic sites, experiences of contemporary art which have numinous and dissonant characteristics can reinforce rather than disrupt hegemonic heritage narratives.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an author produced version of a paper published in International Journal of Heritage Studies. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | contemporary art; interventions; numen; cognitive dissonance; visitor comments |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 01 Jul 2019 09:18 |
Last Modified: | 28 Nov 2020 01:49 |
Published Version: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13527... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13527258.2019.1621924 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:147948 |