Thinking Contemporary Curating - Couverture souple

Smith, Dr Terry

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0916365867 ISBN 13 : 9780916365868

Editeur : Independent Curators Inc.,U.S., 2012

Synopsis

What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibition-making; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly of concern, are issues such as rethinking spectatorship, engaging viewers as co-curators and the challenge of curating contemporaneity itself. In these five essays, art historian and theorist Terry Smith surveys the international landscape of current thinking by curators; explores a number of exhibitions that show contemporaneity in recent, present and past art; describes the enormous growth world wide of exhibition infrastructure and the instability that haunts it; re-examines the contribution of artist-curators and questions the rise of curators utilizing artistic strategies; and, finally, assesses a number of key tendencies in curating as responses to contemporary conditions. Thinking Contemporary Curating is the first book to comprehensively chart the variety of practices of curating undertaken today, and to think through, systematically, what is distinctive about contemporary curatorial thought.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Independent Curators Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0916365867
• ISBN 13: 9780916365868
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible