Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum
Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg, Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg
- 258 pages
- English
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Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum
Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg, Malene Vest Hansen, Kristian Handberg
About This Book
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged â in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies.
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions by established and emerging art historians, academics and curators, the book proposes that the art museum is engaged in the contemporary in a double sense: it (re)presents contemporary art, while the contemporary condition itself also has a significant impact on art and the museum that houses it. Presenting a diverse range of international cases of exhibitions and curatorial practices, which hail primarily from Europe and Scandinavia, the essays examine the politics of staging "national", "international", and "global" framings of modernism, as well as the new public spaces shaped in digital practices and changing political frameworks. The book investigates both the seminal and the unknown exhibitions and institutions that created contemporary art as we know it today.
Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum provides a historical perspective on the museum of contemporary art. It constitutes a step towards differencing the canon of modernist and contemporary art and a more complex understanding of the politics of curating the contemporary in the art museum, why it will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, curating, exhibitions, and art history.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Introduction: Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum
- Part I The Curatorial Now: Performing the Museum
- Part II Politics of Curating the Contemporary-Modern in the Art Museum
- Part III Mapping Exhibition Histories of the Contemporary
- Index