When Attitudes Become the Norm

2018

Boek; 276 p ill

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Artikelenbundel over de plaats en positie van institutionele kunst en het curateren daarvan. Bevat een interview met Charles Esche. - In her provocative book on the field of curating and ''institutional art,'' Slovene art historian and theorist Beti Zerovc questions the character and limitations of both the exhibition-maker as artist and the exhibition as a work of art. Given the inescapable conditions of capitalism, do the socio-political objectives of the curator manifest contradictory or even opposite effects? The book culminates with Zerovcs queries about the ritualistic function of contemporary art exhibitions, evocatively expressed in her introduction, ''There was once great discussion about how removing artworks from their original context and installing them in the museum meant their certain death. Today, it seems, we need to be thinking about different questions. Does the institution of visual art bring something to something to life...and what, in fact, are we summoning to life?'' The publication includes contributions by international thinkers Pierre Restany, Zoran Krzisnik, Harald Szeemann, Daniel Buren, Charles Esche

Located in: CURATOREN

ISBN: 978-3-943620-39-9 3943620395

VUBIS: 2:102588