Sobre exposiciones de arte: aportaciones simmelianas al estudio del público del Museo Nacional de Antropología (CDMX)

Abstract

In order to contribute to the sociological study of museums, this article takes
up six important points from Georg Simmel’s theory, particularly from his
essay “On Art Exhibitions” (1890). In it, he describes his vision of how art was
produced and consumed in Germany in the late nineteenth and the early
twentieth centuries. In this article, the author analyzes Simmel’s contributions using the ethnographic findings of research carried out in Mexico City’s
National Anthropology Museum, which looked into the opinion of 2018 and
2019 museum visitors about the indigenous.