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Mark
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Subject:  curators vs. educational texts
 Date:    Tue, 6 Oct 1998 16:11:40 PDT
 From:     Allison Pomenta <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l

I'd like to know your opinion on the process of writing an educational
text for art museums.

I think that reading the art history books and/or curatorial texts
first, makes it harder later on to translate those ideas, with a
simplified language, into educational material. How about us (museum
educators) analizing by ourselves the work of art first, jotting down
our impressions, and trying to write meaningful and understandable
material (be it for kids, teens or adults), and afterwards comparing it
with the critic's text to see if the essential ideas are the same?

Do you think that as museum educators our vision and appreciation of a
work of art would be limited in comparison with that of the expert, and
therefore this procedure would be counterproductive?

Allison Pomenta
Curator of Educational Exhibits
Museo de Bellas Artes
Caracas, Venezuela

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