Collecting the new : museums and contemporary art / edited by Bruce Altshuler.

Contributor(s):

Altshuler, Bruce [editor]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2007.Description: 195 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:

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9780691133737

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DDC classification:

708.1309051

Contents:

A historical introduction/ Bruce Altshuler -- The right to be wrong/ Howard N. Fox -- To have and hold/ Robert Storr -- 9 minutes and 45 seconds/ Jeffrey Weiss -- Breaking down categories: print rooms, drawing departments, and the museum/ Christophe Cherix -- Keeping time: on collecting film and video art in the museum/ Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch -- Collecting New - Meida art: just like anything else, only different/ Steve Dietz -- Beyond the "authentic-exotic": collecting contemporary Asian art in the twetny-first century/ Vishakha N. Desai -- The unconscious museum: collecting contemporary African art without knowing it/ Pamela McClusky -- The accidental tourist: American collections of Latin American art/ Gabriel Perez-Barreiro -- Collecting the art of African-Americans at the Studio Museum in Harlem: positioning the "New" from the perspective of the past/ Lowery Stokes Sims -- The challenges of conserving contemporary art/ Glenn Wharton.

Summary: "Collecting the New is the first book about the challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring this type of art, museums gamble on the future. Following Bruch Altshuler's introduction on the history of European and American museum collecting of art by living artists, the book includes essays by twelve distinguished curators. First considered are general issues, including the acquisition process , and collecting by universal survey museums and museums that focus on modern and contemporary art. Following are groups of essays that address colecting in particular media and national - and ethnic - specific collecting. The final essay examines the conservation problems created by contemporary works - for example, what is to be done when deterioration is the artist's intent?" -- Publisher's description.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Course reserves
Reserve - Overnight loan	CYA Library Reserve	708.1309051 COL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00000010479		Hadji Athena - Art History & Curation

Total holds: 0

Originally published: 2005.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Collecting the New is the first book about the challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring this type of art, museums gamble on the future.
Following Bruch Altshuler's introduction on the history of European and American museum collecting of art by living artists, the book includes essays by twelve distinguished curators. First considered are general issues, including the acquisition process , and collecting by universal survey museums and museums that focus on modern and contemporary art. Following are groups of essays that address colecting in particular media and national - and ethnic - specific collecting. The final essay examines the conservation problems created by contemporary works - for example, what is to be done when deterioration is the artist's intent?" -- Publisher's description.