Object, Event, Performance: Art, Materiality, and Continuity Since the 1960s - Couverture rigide

Hölling, Hanna B.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1941792227 ISBN 13 : 9781941792223

Editeur : Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department, 2022

Synopsis

A volume considering questions of conservation that arise with new artistic mediums and practices.

Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms--such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works with interactive and networked components--that pose a new set of questions about what art actually is, both physically and conceptually. For conservators, this raises an existential challenge when considering what elements of these artworks can and should be preserved.

This provocative volume revisits the traditional notions of conservation and museum collecting that developed over the centuries to suit a conception of art as static, fixed, and permanent objects. Conservators and museums increasingly struggle with issues of conservation for works created from the mid-twentieth to the twenty-first century that are unstable over time. The contributors ask what it means to conserve artworks that fundamentally address and embody the notion of change and, through this questioning, guide us to reevaluate the meaning of art, of objects, and of materiality itself. Object--Event--Performance considers a selection of post-1960s artworks that have all been chosen for their instability, changeability, performance elements, and processes that pose questions about their relationship to conservation practices. This volume will be a welcome resource on contemporary conservation for art historians, scholars of dance and theater studies, curators, and conservators.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Hanna B. Hölling is associate professor in the history of art and material studies in the Department of History of Art, University College London. She is also research professor at the University of the Arts in Bern, Switzerland.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1941792227
• ISBN 13: 9781941792223
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 360
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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