Full Description
In recent years, the museum and gallery have increasingly become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators and its audience is subverted and democratised. One effect of this has been a growing place for artists as curators, and in The Artist as Curator Celina Jeffery brings together a group of scholars and artists to explore the many ways that artists have introduced new curatorial ways of thinking and talking about artistic culture. Taking a deliberately multidisciplinary and cross-cultural focus, The Artist as Curator will fill a gap in museum and curatorial studies, offering a thorough and diverse treatment of various approaches to the historical and changing role of the artist as curator that should appeal to scholars, curators and artists alike.
Contents
Introduction - Celina Jeffery
Chapter 1: Paolozzi's Lost Magic Kingdoms: The Metamorphosis of Ordinary Things - Nicola Levell
Chapter 2: Re-Mastering MoMA: Kirk Varnedoe's 'Artist's Choice' Series - Lewis Kachur
Chapter 3: 'Both Object and Subject': MoMA's Burton on Brancusi - Cher Krause Knight
Chapter 4: Curating Between Worlds: How Digital Collaborations Become Curative Projects - Dew Harrison
Chapter 5: Erasure: Curator as Artist - Bruce Checefsky
Chapter 6: Say My Name - Brenda L. Croft
Chapter 7: Performing the Curator, Curating the Performer: Abramović's Seven Easy Pieces - Gregory Minissale
Chapter 8: Curating the City: Collectioneering and the Affects of Display - Jim Drobnick and Jennifer Fisher
Chapter 9: Artists Curating the Expedition - Celina Jeffery
