Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Foreword; Introduction; Chapter 1: Paolozzi's Lost Magic Kingdoms: The Metamorphosis of Ordinary Things; Opening: The Limits of Objectivity; Commission: Metaphors and Objections; Technologies and Time: Exhibition/Catalogue; Obsessions: Heads and Images; Irony, Authenticity and the Stereotype; Memento Mori: Surrealism and Death; An Anthropological Imagination; A Social Critique of Waste; Images of Conflict and Combat; A Cosmic Philosophy: Blueprints for a New Museum; Acknowledgement; References; Note. Chapter 2: Re-Mastering MoMA: Kirk Varnedoe's 'Artist's Choice' SeriesReferences; Note; Chapter 3: 'Both Object and Subject': MoMA's Burton on Brancusi; References; Notes; Chapter 4: Curating Between Worlds: How Digital Collaborations Become Curative Projects; References; Chapter 5: Erasure: Curator as Artist; References; Notes; Chapter 6: Say My Name; Notes; Chapter 7: Performing the Curator, Curating the Performer: Abramović's Seven Easy Pieces; The Curator; The Archive; Performance; Seven Easy Pieces; References; Notes. Chapter 8: Curating the City: Collectioneering and the Affects of DisplayTempting Provenance; Material Constellations; Rhetorics of Display; A Post-Medium Wunderkammer; Typologies of Heterogeneity; References; Notes; Chapter 9: Artists Curating the Expedition; References; Notes; Contributors; Index; BackCover.
Summary:
In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display,its creators, and its audience is subverted and democratized. one effect of this has been a growing place for artists as curators, and in The Artist as Curator Celina Jeffery brings together a group of scholars and artists to explore the many ways that artists have introduced new curatorial ways of thinking and talking about artistic culture. Taking a deliberatelymultidisciplinary and cross-cultural focus, The Artist as Curator will fill agap in museum and curatorial studies, offering a thorough and diversetreatment of various approaches to the historical and changing role of theartist as curator that should appeal to scholars, curators, and artists alike.
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