Collecting the new : museums and contemporary art / edited by Bruce Altshuler.
Material type: TextPublication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2007.Description: 195 p. : ill. ; 23 cmContent type:- 9780691133737
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707.5 WHA What makes a great exhibition? / | 708.0075 ISS Issues in curating contemporary art and performance / | 708.0075 OBR A brief history of curating / | 708.1309051 COL Collecting the new : | 708.9495 ACR The Acropolis Museum : a descriptive catalog / | 708.9495 ENT Enter EMST collection and history : | 708.9495 KAR National archaeological museum : |
Originally published: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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.