The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art: The Politics of Artistic Display in France After 1968

ISBN-13: 9781107656918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 284 str.

Rebecca DeRoo

Opis

Winner of the Laurence Wylie Prize for best book in the field of French Cultural Studies, 2006 2007.
The protests that shook France in 1968 served as a catalyst to a radical reconsideration of artistic practice that has shaped both art and museum exhibitions up to the present. Rebecca DeRoo examines how issues of historical and personal memory, the separation of public and private domains, and the ordinary objects of everyday life emerged as central concerns for museums and for artists, as both struggled to respond to the protests. She argues that the responses of the museums were only partially faithful to the aims of the reform movement. Museums, in fact, often misunderstood and misrepresented the work of artists exhibited as a means of addressing these concerns."

Recenzje

'… DeRoo's chapters are rather elegantly integrated to give a synthetic view of artistic and curatorial strategies in the 1970s …' Oxford Art Journal

Spis treści

1. Museums as political centers; 2. Dismantling art institutions: the 1968 explosion of social awareness; 3. Christian Boltanski's personal memorabilia: remaking museums in the wake of 1968; 4. Annette Messager's images of the everyday: the feminist recasting of '68; 5. Institutionalizing '68: the Pompidou center; 6. America and Europe post-Pompidou: sustaining the new political mission of the museum.