Curious Lessons in the Museum: The Pedagogic Potential of Artists' Interventions

ISBN-13: 9780815399407 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 260 str.

Robins, Claire

Opis

Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct attention to the distinct contributions that twentieth and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer still that recognise the pedagogic potential of interventionist artworks in galleries and museums. This book fills that gap and demonstrates how artists have been making curious but, none-the-less, useful contributions to museum education and curation for some time. This valuable book will be essential reading for students and scholars of museum studies, as well as art and cultural studies.

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I Artists, Museums and Education in Historical Context; Chapter 1 Shifting priorities for learning in the museum; Chapter 2; Chapter 3 Historical tracings of artists’ interventions in the mid-twentieth century; Part II Parody and Irony in the Museum; Chapter 4 Humour, irony and parody in artists’ interventions; Chapter 5 Jokers, tricksters and the parafictional; Chapter 6 An Elite Experience for Everyone: a case study intervention at the William Morris Gallery, London; Part III Contemporary Museums and the Role of Artists’ Interventions; Chapter 7 The role of artists’ interventions in opening up micro, counter and affective narratives in museum interpretation; Chapter 8 Artists’ interventions and the reflexive museum: addressing difference; Chapter 9 The affable interventionists;

O autorze

Claire Robins is a senior lecturer in Art, Design and Museology at the UCL Institute of Education, University College London,UK.