Maria Guzman
Instructor Manshel
English 4a, Section 36
10 October 2015
In Praise of Margins
In Frazier’s essay, “In Praise of Margins”, Frazier stresses the importance of how finding your marginal place and doing purposeless ideas can have an impact on a person’s life. Frazier reflects back to his childhood and expresses how his marginal place was an important necessity as he was growing up. To Frazier, marginal places is “where you can try out ideas that you might be afraid to admit to with people looking on” (58). A marginal place allows you to develop and explore creations that can be seen foolish to society but scientific by nature. Frazier’s marginal stresses how it is important to find your marginal place. Frazier’s explains how the woods was his marginal space (58). The woods allowed him venture out and explore as a child. In the woods Frazier would spend much of his time with his friends and do purposeless things (57). He understands as an adult the woods was his marginal place that allowed him create memories that can not be replaceable. A
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Mora explains how she felt revived when she visited her marginal space, the museum. The museum was Mora’s “pleasure havens” (97). The museum can be educational and informative but Mora interpreted the significance of the museum in a different way. As adults people do not take their time off to do things they enjoy and by having a marginal space, it lets you vent from the pressure of adulthood. A marginal space is meant for individuals to escape from their (his/her) troubles. Mora exemplifies the importance of finding a marginal space because it strengthens the intensiveness of the human imagination through time. People don’t have much time to stop and look around and admire the beauty in this world and Mora reminds people to find that marginal space. That marginal space will allow to
The white walls of the museum came to life by the art works on and surrounding them. As soon as I walked in, I was facing Sheila Hicks, Vivace, Vivace, (2014) which lit up the room with its vibrant colors, serving as the
...he ‘actual’ objects. In comparison, the museum acts as a reminiscing snapshot of what was an unending change. This change was not the result of expansion but was rather a continual reframing of Soane’s perception of the world, which resulted in a continuous change in the positioning of the spaces within the house. The peculiar organization of the spaces and its objects is an imitation or rather mirroring of Soane’s mind, which was not orderly organized and catalogued but endlessly intricate. The house and his mind were filled with never-ending routes and labyrinth like viewpoints ranging throughout, which acted in conglomerate ways. The use of perspective and play with viewpoints in both works in relation to the division between social class, makes us as viewers realize the complexity of a human mind, its thoughts and perception on the spaces and people around it.
The sidewalk is a social structure for the people who work and live in it. They are mentors for each other. They play the same role of self-direction and psychological fulfillment of a formal job or family for example; where the society is shrunken on that one sidewalk. They form an informal social organization and social control so they can survive against the outer social system; meanwhile, this social organization organizes property rights and division of labor. Although their life seems deviant, they still practice conventional social practices and norms. Although it might seem that these men are engaged in random behavior, yet there is an organized interaction of norms and goals, and a shared collective self-consciousness from having a shared common history.
...lves the confirmation of the boundaries of the social world through the sorting of things into good and bad categories. They enter the unconscious through the process of socialisation.’ Then, “the articulation of space and its conception is a reminder that time boundaries are inextricably connected to exclusionary practises which are defined in refusing to adhere to the separation of black experience.”
In the essay “Reunion with Boredom”, Simic allocates about “a quiet place to sit and think”. Simic conveys that it is now very difficult to find a place in which there are no distractions. However, when living in a place filled with technology and many other implements that can distract you, I’ve managed to discover a place where I am separated from all of this; my room.
One can see by examining the gravel pit and its importance to the citizens of Deptford, that Robertson Davies’ novel Fifth Business, examines the need for one to accept their shadow in order to fully develop their personality and realize their role in the society. Dunstan describes the gravel pit as something “of unusual importance to our village [Deptford] because it completely blocked any normal extension of streets or houses on our western; thus it was a source of indignation to our village [Deptford's] council”. The gravel pit is more than just a setting to the citizens of Deptford, as it is the place where people who were rejected from the society went, and it was the only place where people could freely do whatever they felt like was right, without being judged. The pit was also a source of annoyance to the citizens because it ‘blocked any normal extension of streets or houses’, which represents the hiding of the citizens dark thoughts and actions, and that annoyed others who
Tony Hiss Author of The Experience of Place brings to our attention that as humans “We react, consciously or unconsciously, to the places where we live and work, in ways we scarcely notice or that are only now becoming known to us…In short, the places where we spend our time affect the people we are and can become.” Place defines characteristics in both human and extended moral communities. Place is not necessarily specific to gender, race, generation or specie. This understanding and recognition of place is fundamental when thinking about institutionalizing ecological and social responsibility.
Jarrar, Randa. “A Map of Home.” New York: Other Press LLC, 2008 (Later published by Penguin Books, 2009.) 1-290. Print.
Chapter 1, Museums and Community. In The Handbook for Museums. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 3-12,
‘I feel that I had been at the frontier of existence, close to the place where they lose their names, their definition, the place where time stops, almost outside History’ (E Ionesco).
‘Through identifying places and organizing them, we make sense of the world we inhibit’ (Unwin,
The soul of a museum is the essence of identity by which it is defined; it is that which makes a museum a museum. The museum has identifiable requisites without which it would not be a museum. By using creative methods of exhibition, interpretation, and education as well as effective methods of collection and conservation, the museum becomes an integral aspect and a valuable resource in society. There are unique distinctions between the museum and other cultural institutions. Although the basic requirements of the definition of the museum have remained predominantly unaltered in modern history, the role of the museum in society has changed. Museums unite in purpose through their characteristics and features, are different from other cultural institutions, and have changed over time with respect to their role in society.
‘Savage Beauty’ was an exhibition that pushed the boundaries of museology, in its artistic, social and critical undertakings. The questions brought to bear by the exhibition of contemporary art and culture in various situations is something I am interested in researching further with a degree in curating.
This was an era where sociology was emerging. Hirsch using Sauer’s work argued that human interaction with the natural landscape created a ‘cultural landscape’. Hirsch uses Gow ‘s (1994) chapter on Amazonian Peru to demonstrate how a cultural landscape develops. The Piro people of Peru use rotational crops to feed their people and share their food among the tribe. When they look at the land it represents kinship structures and social ties. The notion of space and place are entwined in meaning by emphasising the reality but also looking to the potentiality of the place thus creating a ‘space’.
When analyzing the museum of the past, one must consider all facets including the surrounding artifacts, the enclosure, lighting, color, and the space itself. It is also important to understand the connection between these elements, as well as, the relationship of these displayed objects with the viewer. There has always been a tendency to afford such a space with a formal relevance. It is humankind’s innate cu...