Radical Museology: Or What's Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art?
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.21 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 3863353641 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-14 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Five Stars Amazon Customer Super interesting panorama about museology panorama that reflects and social statements for the world today. Banal and predictable preppy The author, once one of the most provocative voices in art criticism, has with this book become one of the most conventional, fully embracing conventional pieties. "Banal and predictable" are her own choice of words, a sort of defensive self criticism (to describe her bringing up Benjamin in her conclusion). All I can say about the accompanying illustrations - and the less said the better - is they are a perfect fit for this text.
. About the Author Claire Bishop is the author of "Installation Art: A Critical History" and a contributor to many art journals, including "ArtForum", "Flash Art", and "October". She is a Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Warwick
She discusses creative solutions implemented at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Museo Nacional de Reina Sofía in Madrid and MSUM in Ljubljana. This book is a manifesto for the importance of a politicized representation of the contemporary in today’s art.. With austerity cuts to public funding, many contemporary art museums have been forced to scale down their budgets, staff and acquisitions. In Radical Museology, New York–based art historian Claire Bishop argues that the incommensurability of fiscal and cultural temporality--one fast, the other slower--points to an alternative world of values in which museums (and by extension, culture, education and democracy in general) are not subject to the banalities of a spreadsh
Claire Bishop is the author of "Installation Art: A Critical History" and a contributor to many art journals, including "ArtForum", "Flash Art", and "October". She is a Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Warwick.