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Decentring the museum : contemporary art institutions and colonial legacies

Title
Decentring the museum : contemporary art institutions and colonial legacies / Nina Möntmann ; translated from the German by Gerrit Jackson.
Author
Möntmann, Nina, 1969-
Publication
  • London : Lund Humphries, 2023.
  • ©2023

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Additional Authors
Jackson, Gerrit
Description
144 pages : illustrations (black and white); 21 cm.
Summary
"Nina Möntmann's timely book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. In a thoughtfully articulated text, illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she argues that to play a crucial role within increasingly diverse societies museums and galleries of contemporary art have a responsibility to 'decentre' their institutions, removing from their collections, exhibition policies and infrastructures a deeply embedded Euro-centric cultural focus with roots in the history of colonialism. In this, she argues, they can learn from the example both of anthropological museums (such as the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne), which are engaged in debates about the colonial histories of their collections, about trauma and repair, and of small-scale art spaces (such as La Colonie, Paris, ANO, Institute of Arts and Knowledge, Accra or Savvy Contemporary, Berlin), which have the flexibility, based on informal infrastructures, to initiate different kinds of conversation and collective knowledge production in collaboration with indigenous or local diasporic communities from the Global South. For the first time, this book identifies the influence that anthropological museums and small art spaces can exert on museums of contemporary art to initiate a process of decentring." - from the publisher's website
Series Statement
New directions in contemporary art
Uniform Title
New directions in contemporary art.
Subject
  • Museums > Philosophy
  • Art museums > Philosophy
  • Decolonization
  • Museums
  • Art museums
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Foreword / Marcus Verhagen -- Introduction: Why decentre museums, and why now? -- The colonial dilemma of the modern museum -- Central theoretical concepts: from decolonising to decentring -- Repairing the anthropological museum -- Decolonial sensibilities and decentring practices of small-scale art organisations -- The contemporary art museum: between the anthropological museum and small art spaces -- Epilogue: Decentred museums as infrastructures of people.
Call Number
JQD 24-90
ISBN
  • 9781848225503
  • 1848225504
  • 9781848225527 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781848225534 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9781848225510 (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
1389771451
Author
Möntmann, Nina, 1969- author.
Title
Decentring the museum : contemporary art institutions and colonial legacies / Nina Möntmann ; translated from the German by Gerrit Jackson.
Publisher
London : Lund Humphries, 2023.
Copyright Date
©2023
Type of Content
text
still image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
New directions in contemporary art
New directions in contemporary art.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Jackson, Gerrit, translator.
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781848225527
Research Call Number
JQD 24-90
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