Contents: Subject/object: new studies in sculpture, Lisa Le Feuvre; Introduction, John C. Welchman; Art and commodity: sculpture under glass at the Crystal Palace, Kate Nichols; Through the vitrine: Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God, Tag Gronberg; Magic windows: Frederick Kiesler’s displays for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York in 1928, Barnaby Haran; Between Wunderkammer and shop window: surrealist naturalia cabinets, Marion Endt-Jones; Sculpture in Fog: Beuys’s vitrines, Claudia Mesch; Framed devices: Paul Thek’s Technological Reliquaries, Susanne Neubauer; Unattributed objects: the Mouse Museum, the Ray Gun Wing, and four artists, Genevieve Waller; Fluxus soapbox, Cornelia Lauf; 20th-century display case archive, Daniel Edwards; Cults of transparency: the curtain wall and the shop window in the work of Dan Graham and Josephine Meckseper, Sarah Lookofsky; The transparent signifier: Hirst, invisibility, and critique, Elyse Speaks; Between inside and out, Blake Stimson; Index.
John C. Welchman is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, USA. Lisa Le Feuvre, John C. Welchman, Kate Nichols, Tag Gronberg, Barnaby Haran, Marion Endt-Jones, Claudia Mesch, Susanne Neubauer, Genevieve Waller, Cornelia Lauf, Daniel Edwards, Sarah Lookofsky, Elyse Speaks, Blake Stimson.
Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services A Yankee Book Peddler US and UK Core Title for 2013 '... the strengths of the book lie in the essays that speak most closely to the history of collections and to mechanisms of artistic and curatorial control... this is a thought-provoking collection of essays, that considers a variety of curatorial, artistic, economic, temporal and sensory aspects of display.' Journal of the History of Collections
 |
Ask a Question About this Product More... |
|
