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Collecting the new

Altshuler, Bruce

2013,2007,2005,2006

Overview

Collecting the Newis the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring such art, museums gamble on the future. In addition, new technologies and alternative conceptions of the artwork have created special problems of conservation, while social, political, and aesthetic changes have generated new categories of works to be collected. Following Bruce Altshuler's introduction on the European and American history of museum collecting of art by living artists, the book comprises newly commissioned essays by twelve distinguished curators representing a wide range of museums. First considered are general issues including the acquisition process, and collecting by universal survey museums and museums that focus on modern and contemporary art. Following are groups of essays that address collecting in particular media, including prints and drawings, new (digital) media, and film and video; and national- and ethnic-specific collecting (contemporary art from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and African-American art). The closing essay examines the conservation problems created by contemporary works--for example, what is to be done when deterioration is the artist's intent? The contributors are Christophe Cherix, Vishakha N. Desai, Steve Dietz, Howard N. Fox, Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch, Pamela McClusky, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Lowery Stokes Sims, Robert Storr, Jeffrey Weiss, and Glenn Wharton.

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Subject: 20th century / 21st century / Aaron Siskind / Addison Gallery of American Art / Agnes Gund / Alexandra Munroe / American Folk Art Museum / Anselm Kiefer / Anya Gallaccio / Arshile Gorky / Art & Art History / ART / History / Contemporary (1945-) / Art exhibition / Art Express / Art history / Art movement / Art museum / Art museums / Art museums -- Collection management -- United States / Art Workers' Coalition / Art, Modern / Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Collectors and collecting -- United States / Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Collectors and collecting -- United States / Bill Viola / Bruce Nauman / Chris Burden / Collecting / Collection management / Collectors and collecting / Contemporary (1945-) / Contemporary art / Curator / Deaccessioning (museum) / Diego Rivera / Documenta / Duncan Phillips (art collector) / El Lissitzky / Ernst Gombrich / Figurative art / Fine art / Fluxus / Frank Stella / History / Institutional Critique / J. Paul Getty Museum / Japanese art / Jessica Stockholder / John Russell Pope / Joseph Beuys / Kara Walker / Kirk Varnedoe / Latin American art / Linda Nochlin / Los Angeles County Museum of Art / Mail art / Marcel Duchamp / Modernism / Modernity / Municipal Art Society / Museology / Museum / Museum of Modern Art / Nam June Paik / Okwui Enwezor / Painting (Blue Star) / Pop art / Richard Diebenkorn / Robert Mapplethorpe / Robert Rauschenberg / Romanticism / Roy Lichtenstein / Sherrie Levine / Smithsonian Institution / Sol LeWitt / Sound effect / United States / Video art / Video installation / Visual art of the United States / Walker Evans / Wear and tear / Whitney Museum of American Art / Work of art
• ISBN: 9780691133737, 0691133735, 0691119406, 9780691119403, 1400849357, 9781400849352