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When artists curate : contemporary art and the exhibition as medium

Title
When artists curate : contemporary art and the exhibition as medium / Alison Green.
Author
Green, Alison (Art historian)
Publication
  • London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
295 pages : illustrations (some color); 20 cm
Summary
An increasing proportion of exhibitions are curated by artists rather than professional curators. In this ground-breaking book Alison Green provides the first critical history of visual artists curating exhibitions. The artist emerges as someone who carries a special responsibility for critiquing art's institutions, brings considerable creativity to the craft of making exhibitions and, through experimentation, has changed the way exhibitions are understood to be authored and experienced. But the book also establishes a curious ubiquity to the artist-curated exhibition. Rather than being exceptional or rare, artists curate all the time and in all kinds of places: in galleries and in museums, in studios, in borrowed spaces such as shopfronts or industrial buildings, in front rooms and front windows, in zoos or concert halls, on streets and in nature. Seen from the perspective of artists, showing is a part of making art. Once this idea is understood, the history of art starts to look very different. 0With extensive explorations of well-known artists such as Daniel Buren, Goshka Macuga, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rosemarie Trockel, Hito Steyerl, Andy Warhol and Felix Gonzalez-Torres, this book will change the way readers think about and look at exhibitions.
Series Statement
Art since the '80s
Uniform Title
Art since the '80s.
Subject
  • Artists as art museum curators
  • Curatorship
  • Art > Exhibition techniques
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-281) and index.
Call Number
JQD 18-428
ISBN
  • 1780239335
  • 9781780239330
OCLC
1004758091
Author
Green, Alison (Art historian), author.
Title
When artists curate : contemporary art and the exhibition as medium / Alison Green.
Publisher
London, UK : Reaktion Books, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Art since the '80s
Art since the '80s.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-281) and index.
Research Call Number
JQD 18-428
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