Museums After Modernism (eBook)

Strategies of Engagement

Griselda Pollock, Joyce Zemans (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2008
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-4051-8217-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Museums After Modernism is a unique collectionthat showcases the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art. The book features expert artists, curators and art historians who grapple with many of the vibrant issues in museum studies, while paying homage to a new museology that needs to be considered. Examines the key contemporary debates in museum studies Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historians Engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art-exhibiting Edited by the world-renowned art historian and author, Griselda Pollock

Autor

Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, where she is also Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History (CATH). Joyce Zemans is an art historian and curator. She is a University Professor and Director of the MBA Program in Arts and Media Administration at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.

Inhalt

List of Figures.

Notes on Contributors.

Series Editor's Preface.

Preface.

1. Un-Framing the Modern: Critical Space/Public Possibility
(Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds).

2. Women's Rembrandt (Mieke Bal, University of
Amsterdam).

3. Museums and the Native Voice (Gerald McMaster, Art Gallery of
Ontario).

4. Exhibiting Africa after Modernism: Globalization, Pluralism,
and Persistent Paradigms of Art and Artifact (Ruth B. Phillips,
Carleton University).

5. Mirroring Evil, Evil Mirrored: Timing, Trauma, and Temporary
Exhibitions (Reesa Greenberg, independent scholar and museum
consultant).

6. A Place for Uncertainty: Towards a New Kind of Museum (Vera
Frenkel, artist).

7. The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi: Notes on Gesture, Medium, and
Mediation (Mary Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles).

8. Riksutställningar: Swedish Traveling Exhibitions (Ulla
Arnell, Curator and Project Manager at Riksutställningar).

9. Reframing Participation in the Museum: A Syncopated
Discussion (Janna Graham, PhD, University of London and Shadya
Yasin, student, York University, Toronto).

10. "There Is No Such Thing as a Visitor" (Judith
Mastai, d. 2001).

11. "Anxious Dust": History and Repression in the
Archives of Mary Kelly (Judith Mastai, d. 2001).

12. On Discourse as Monument: Institutional Spaces and Feminist
Problematics (Juli Carson, University of California, Irvine).

Bibliography.

Index.

Rezensionen

"A broad-ranging collection of intriguing essays that challenge
current pedagogic practice, give examples of critical engagement,
and raise important questions about the future of museums."

-Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, University of Leicester

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.5.2008
• Reihe/Serie: New Interventions in Art History
• Reihe/Serie: New Interventions in Art History
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
• Schlagworte: Art & Applied Arts • Art History & Criticism • artists • Book • Brings • CASE • Creative • Critical • Debate • Dialogue • Diverse • ERA • Essays • focus • Histories • Kunstgeschichte u. -kritik • Kunst u. Angewandte Kunst • modernism • Museen u. Kulturerbe • Museum • Museum & Heritage Studies • Museums • national • noncanonical • Public • question • Reflections • SET • space • Strategies • urgent • Users
• ISBN-10: 1-4051-8217-2 / 1405182172
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4051-8217-1 / 9781405182171