Collecting The New Museums and Contemporary Art

Afbeeldingen

Artikel vergelijken

  • Engels
  • Paperback
  • 9780691133737
  • 12 augustus 2007
  • 208 pagina's
Alle productspecificaties

Samenvatting

Describes the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. This book comprises of essays by twelve curators representing a range of museums. It considers general issues including the acquisition process, and collecting by universal survey museums and museums that focus on modern and contemporary art.



Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring such art, museums gamble on the future. In addition, new technologies and alternative conceptions of the artwork have created special problems of conservation, while social, political, and aesthetic changes have generated new categories of works to be collected. Following Bruce Altshuler's introduction on the European and American history of museum collecting of art by living artists, the book comprises newly commissioned essays by twelve distinguished curators representing a wide range of museums. First considered are general issues including the acquisition process, and collecting by universal survey museums and museums that focus on modern and contemporary art. Following are groups of essays that address collecting in particular media, including prints and drawings, new (digital) media, and film and video; and national- and ethnic-specific collecting (contemporary art from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and African-American art). The closing essay examines the conservation problems created by contemporary works--for example, what is to be done when deterioration is the artist's intent? The contributors are Christophe Cherix, Vishakha N. Desai, Steve Dietz, Howard N. Fox, Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch, Pamela McClusky, Gabriel Perez-Barreiro, Lowery Stokes Sims, Robert Storr, Jeffrey Weiss, and Glenn Wharton.

Productspecificaties

Inhoud

Taal
en
Bindwijze
Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
12 augustus 2007
Aantal pagina's
208
Illustraties
Nee

Betrokkenen

Hoofdauteur
Bruce Altshuler
Hoofdredacteur
Bruce Altshuler
Hoofduitgeverij
Princeton University Press

Vertaling

Originele titel
Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art

Overige kenmerken

Editie
illustrated edition
Extra groot lettertype
Nee
Product breedte
159 mm
Product hoogte
13 mm
Product lengte
235 mm
Studieboek
Nee
Verpakking breedte
152 mm
Verpakking hoogte
229 mm
Verpakking lengte
235 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht
28 g

EAN

EAN
9780691133737

Je vindt dit artikel in

Taal
Engels
Boek, ebook of luisterboek?
Boek
Periode
ca. 1950-1999
Studieboek of algemeen
Algemene boeken
Nog geen reviews

Kies gewenste uitvoering

Kies je bindwijze (2)

Prijsinformatie en bestellen

Niet leverbaar

Ontvang eenmalig een mail of notificatie via de bol app zodra dit artikel weer leverbaar is.

Houd er rekening mee dat het artikel niet altijd weer terug op voorraad komt.