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Museums After Modernism: Strategies of Engagement

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ISBN: 978-0-470-77663-6

February 2008

Wiley-Blackwell

272 pages

Description
Museums After Modernism is a unique collectionthat showcases the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art. The book features expert artists, curators and art historians who grapple with many of the vibrant issues in museum studies, while paying homage to a new museology that needs to be considered.
  • Examines the key contemporary debates in museum studies
  • Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historians
  • Engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art-exhibiting
  • Edited by the world-renowned art historian and author, Griselda Pollock
About the Author
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, where she is also Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History (CATH).

Joyce Zemans is an art historian and curator. She is a University Professor and Director of the MBA Program in Arts and Media Administration at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.

Features

  • Examines the most important issues at the heart of contemporary debates in museum studies.
  • Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art historians.
  • Engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art-exhibiting.
  • Edited by the world-renowned art historian and author, Griselda Pollock.