ABSTRACT
Curating Art provides insight into some of the most socially and politically impactful curating of historical and contemporary art since the late 1990s. It offers up a museological framework for understanding watershed developments of curating in art museums.
Representing the plurality of theory and practice around the expanded field of relational curating, the book focuses on curating that prioritises the quality of relationships between people and objects, between institutions and people and among people. It has wide international breadth, with particularly strong representation in East and Southeast Asia, including four papers never before translated into English. This Asian cluster illuminates the globalisation of the field and challenges dichotomies of East and West while acknowledging distinctions within specific, but often transnational, cultural spheres.
The compelling philosophical perspectives and case studies included within Curating Art will be of interest to students and researchers studying curating, exhibition development and art museums. The book will also inspire current and emerging curators to pose challenging but important questions about their own practice and the relationships that this work sustains.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|131 pages
Expertise
part |12 pages
Groundwork
part |8 pages
Connoisseurship
chapter |6 pages
From connoisseurship to technical art history
part |23 pages
Curatorial vision and institutional history
part |29 pages
Provenance
part |29 pages
Exhibition-making and the canon
part |21 pages
Linking past to present
chapter 13|10 pages
Curating contemporary art
part II|158 pages
Engagement
part |13 pages
Groundwork
part |38 pages
The processes of cultural translation
chapter 15|19 pages
From entangled objects to engaged subjects
part |29 pages
Artists as curators
chapter 17|6 pages
The book in which we learn to read
chapter 19|15 pages
No good time for an exhibition
part |26 pages
Relational practice with publics
chapter 20|12 pages
Other people's stories
part |27 pages
Negotiating the local and the global
chapter 24|13 pages
From object to subject
part |14 pages
Navigating the pressures of censorship
chapter 26|6 pages
Art is not bioterrorism
part III|141 pages
Platforms
part |40 pages
Groundwork
part |20 pages
Blurring the boundaries between performance, programme and exhibition
part |40 pages
Appropriating the apparatus of the institution
part |10 pages
Curating interstitial spaces
part |25 pages
New models of curating in a network culture