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The passage is specifically telling you the connection of Utopias and museums. Museums are in fact a series of Utopian projects, a place for practicing utopia. They are as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but an art practice, the greatest dissimilitude between the two is that "during the time that all utopian worlds are built off of other worlds, only better, the museum really takes the world apart as its joints." (P. 356) . The museum is the greater amount of broken down version of a utopia. The museum and skill goes hand in hand and constant movements such as the "nineteenth-centenary Arts and Crafts movement, the Hagen Impulse at the vicissitude of that century, and the uncertain twentieth-century avant-gardes (Futurism, Surrealism, Expressionism)" (p. 357) had every affect on the alteration of the character of museums by challenging it thru its shrewdness. Museums are said to be of great weight because they take away the narration of “how intellectual work is saturated by moral, emotional and aesthetic elements at a collective, and not due biographical level.” (p. 360). The artifacts in museums are incite in a big enough space form sure the visitors are obligated to walk. The capableness to move around establishes the mark of the museum and utopian is in certainty concealed within the museum’s psychogeography. Utopias forward the other hand are literal and matter then anything, the passage describes some utopias such as reasoned, ordered world and of course the Breton’s utopia of the conceit, describing its ideals as surreal. Utopias are afore~ to have a perfect society in a imaginative space. Utopian is more about forming a intellectual image, whether it being it vital principle literary or material. Utopias at their greatest part utopian can not be noticed and subject because they are something that doesn't last however literary utopias are built concerning this.
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