Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums

ISBN-13: 9780367787110 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 174 str.

Margaret Tali

Opis

This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art.

Spis treści

Introduction

Chapter 1: The Presence of Joseph Beuys and the Struggle Over his Legacy in Berlin

Chapter 2: Absencing and Presencing in Exhibition Narratives

Chapter 3: Collectors’ Space and the Agents of Narration

Chapter 4: The Ludwig Collection in Budapest and the Absent Eastern Europe

Chapter 5: Interrogating the Archival Logic

Chapter 6: Archival Absence

Afterword: Turning Absence into Difficult Knowledge

O autorze

Margaret Tali is Lecturer in Visual Art and Culture at Maastricht University.