Research Catalog

Title

Museum highlights : the writings of Andrea Fraser / Andrea Fraser ; edited by Alexander Alberro.

Author

Fraser, Andrea.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

Alberro, Alexander.

Description

xxxvii, 291 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"The writings in Museum Highlights are arranged to reflect different aspects of Fraser's artistic practice. They include essays that trace the development of critical "artistic practice" as cultural resistance; performance scripts that explore art institutions and the public sphere; and texts that explore the ambivalent relationship of art to the economic and political interests of its time. The final piece, "Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao)," reflects on the role of museums in an era of globalization. Among the book's 30 illustrations are stills from performance pieces, some never before published."--Jacket.

Series Statement

The MIT Press writing art series

Uniform Title

MIT Press writing art series.

Subject

• Fraser, Andrea > Written works
• Fraser, Andrea > Aesthetics
• Fraser, Andrea
• Museum Highlights
• Performance art > United States
• Art and society > United States
• Art > Social aspects > United States
• Aesthetics
• Art and society
• Authorship
• Performance art
• Performance Künste
• Ästhetik
• Kunsttheorie
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword : revolution and revelation / Pierre Bourdieu -- Introduction : mimicry, excess, critique / Alexander Alberro -- 1. artist's statement -- 2. In and out of place -- 3. "Creativity = capital"? -- 4. It's art when I say it's art, or ... -- 5. What's intangible, transitory, mediating, participatory, and rendered in the public sphere? -- 6. What's intangible, transitory, medicating, participatory, and rendered in the public sphere? : Part II -- 7. "To quote," say the Kabyles, "is to bring back to life" -- 8. Notes on the museum's publicity -- 9. Museum highlights : a gallery talk -- 10. letter to the Wadsworth Atheneum -- 11. Welcome to the Wadsworth -- 12. Aren't they lovely? : an introduction -- 13. speech on documenta -- 14. How to provide an artistic service : an introduction -- 15. What do I, as an artist, provide? : (a speech at the EA-Generali Foundation) -- 16. Slashing the American canvas, or, why I would rather have a day job -- 17. "sensation" chronicle -- 18. Official welcome -- 19. Isn't this a wonderful place? : (a tour of a tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao).

ISBN

• 0262062445
• 9780262062442
• 9780262562300
• 0262562308

LCCN

2004058756

OCLC

• ocm56481321
• 56481321
• SCSB-9205706

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library