살롱의 문화적 기능과 공간 변화

Abstract

Being a follow-up research of salons’ temporal changes, this research aims to conduct the first exploratory study on how salons’ cultural functions and spatial organization have changed and interpreted from the historical viewpoint. Since the industrial revolution, each person’s level of economic and social experience has improved and use of space for intellectual information sharing has increased, resulting in different analyses on salons. In fact, the investigation by Google Trends on search of salons from 2004 to today shows that interest in the term of ‘salons’ has gradually increased. Therefore, the contemporary studies on salons have emerged due to such effect; salon space needs to be understood and analyzed, since the value of use in actual and virtual space is growing due to the increase in fatigue in the digital era and sharing and communications of common interests. As for the research scope, cultural hermeneutics was used for investigating and analyzing the space and cultural functions of salons from the Renaissance age when they first appeared to the present age. The research methods are as follows: First, understanding the cultural functions and categorizing the development scope of salons to interpret salon space. Second, analyzing the cultural functions presented based on literature data on the previous cultural space of salons and analyzing the resultant types. Third, identifying the temporal changes of space organization according to salons’ cultural functions. As a result, it was revealed that the temporal changes according to the cultural functions in the early stage developed in salons of private cultural space, salons of consumption cultural space, and salons of artistic cultural space. As time passes, salons that used to be definite private space in the early stage were separated as external space with purposes after the 18th century, and now they have changed to space with a synonymous concept that varies complex cultural contents of public areas. As such, being stage 2 research among the 3 stages of research on the temporal changes of salons, the cultural functions and spatial changes of salons, and the types and content of salon cultural space, this research has the purpose of suggesting the direction for studies for analyzing content of salon cultural space.