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Collecting the new : museums and contemporary art / edited by Bruce Altshuler.
Publication details: Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock : Princeton University Press, 2007.Description: 195 p. ; 21 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780691133737 (pbk.) :
- 0691133735 (pbk.) :
- N6486 .C65 2007
Contents:
Summary: Twelve distinguished curators discuss the questions and challenges faced by museums in acquiring and preserving contemporary art.
A historical introduction / Bruce Altshuler -- The right to be wrong / Howard N. Fox -- To have and to hold / Robert Storr -- 9 minutes 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-media art : just like anything else, only different / Steve Dietz -- Beyond the "authentic-exotic" : collecting contemporary Asian art in the twenty-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 Pérez-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.
| Item type | Current library | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Main Collection | N 6486 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Checked out | 2024-06-28 | 5088781 |
Originally published: 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Twelve distinguished curators discuss the questions and challenges faced by museums in acquiring and preserving contemporary art.
A historical introduction / Bruce Altshuler -- The right to be wrong / Howard N. Fox -- To have and to hold / Robert Storr -- 9 minutes 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-media art : just like anything else, only different / Steve Dietz -- Beyond the "authentic-exotic" : collecting contemporary Asian art in the twenty-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 Pérez-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.
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