Resting in the Met
Constructions of Homelike Spaces in Christine Coulson’s Metropolitan Stories
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https://doi.org/10.26512/museologia.v10i19.38321Keywords:
Met, Museum and Literature, Threshold, Homelike, Post-humanismAbstract
The Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, known familiarly as The Met, is a traditional edifice housing both traditional and innovative art through the ages. In this article, I examine its representation in the recently published Metropolitan Stories by Christine Coulson. Beginning with the threshold as the point of defining and delineating entrances and exits, inside and outside in a state of fluidity and play, I examine the construction of spaces of rest and homelike spaces in the museum, as well as of resting in the home. I peruse pertinent examples and provide their analysis to display a performance of home in the museum, connecting human and non-human in a synergy of wordless communication.
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