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Record Nr.

UNINA9911020071003321

Titolo

Museums after modernism : strategies of engagement / / edited by Griselda Pollock and Joyce Zemans

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Blackwell, 2007

ISBN

9786610932573

9781280932571

1280932570

9780470763759

0470763752

9780470776636

0470776633

9781405182171

1405182172

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (274 p.)

Collana

New interventions in art history

Altri autori (Persone)

PollockGriselda

ZemansJoyce <1940->

Disciplina

069

708.001

Soggetti

Art museums - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-234) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Museums After Modernism: Strategies of Engagement; Contents; List of Figures; Notes on Contributors; Series Editor's Preface; Preface; 1 Un-Framing the Modern: Critical Space/Public Possibility; 2 Women's Rembrandt; 3 Museums and the Native Voice; 4 Exhibiting Africa after Modernism: Globalization, Pluralism, and the Persistent Paradigms of Art and Artifact; 5 Mirroring Evil, Evil Mirrored: Timing, Trauma, and Temporary Exhibitions; 6 A Place for Uncertainty: Towards a New Kind of Museum; 7 The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi: Notes on Gesture, Medium, and Mediation

8 Riksutsta ̈llningar: Swedish Traveling Exhibitions9 Reframing Participation in the Museum: A Syncopated Discussion; 10 ''There Is No Such Thing as a Visitor''; 11 ''Anxious Dust'': History and Repression in



the Archives of Mary Kelly; 12 On Discourse as Monument: Institutional Spaces and Feminist Problematics; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 studiesIncludes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historiansEngages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art