Exhibitionism

Art in an Era of Intolerance

Lynne Munson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2001
Ivan R Dee, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-56663-399-4 (ISBN)

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From "Piss Christ" to elephant dung, a decade of art wars has agitated public opinion and incited art world fury but has yielded little conventional wisdom about what ails our art institutions. In this sharp-eyed and authoritative investigation, Lynne Munson identifies an intolerance that overtook the art world in the postmodern era. By exploring the personalities and workings of such major institutions as the National Endowment for the Arts and Harvard University's Department of Fine Arts, she shows how a new dogmatism established itself in museums, academia, and even the artist's studio, where postmodernism favored experimental art at the expense of the traditional, and placed limits on what might be funded, exhibited, studied, and created. Drawing on original research, including more than a hundred interviews with artists, scholars, curators, museum directors, critics, and government officials, Exhibitionism gets behind the façade of the NEA's visual arts program to document its shift from excellence to fashionability; describes how one community of New York painters survived by taking refuge in co-op galleries; examines the "new museology" that has revised not only the content of art exhibitions but the very shape of museums; explains how Harvard's arts program, a one-time beacon for connoisseurial study, has devolved into a theory-driven curriculum nearly divorced from objects. With an eye for art and an ear for politics, Ms. Munson has produced the most important contribution yet to the art debate. With 8 pages of full-color illustrations.

Lynne Munson is a cultural critic and researcher at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Her articles about art and culture have appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Public Interest. She is a former official at the National Endowment for the Humanities and lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	24.9.2001
Verlagsort	Chicago
Sprache	englisch
Maße	145 x 223 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
ISBN-10	1-56663-399-0 / 1566633990
ISBN-13	978-1-56663-399-4 / 9781566633994
Zustand	Neuware