Curating the contemporary in the art museum /
edited by Malene Vest Hansen and Kristian Handberg.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 257 pages) : illustrations.
- Routledge research in art museums and exhibitions .
- Routledge research in art museums and exhibitions. .
Dance, Performance and Social Media in the Postdigital Museum / Claire Bishop -- Torpedoes and Trees: Staging the Modern Art Collection at the Moderna galerija, Ljubljana / Sebastian Mühl -- Escape Attempts or Institutional Transformations? On Moderna Museet's Information Center Project (1970-73) and the Filialen Experiments (1971-73) / Kim West.
"Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum investigates the art museum as a space where the contemporary is staged - in exhibitions, collecting practices, communication, and policies. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum traces the art museum back to the postwar era. Including contributions by established and emerging art historians, academics and curators, the book proposes that the art museum is engaged in the contemporary in a double sense: it (re)presents contemporary art, while the contemporary condition itself also has a significant impact on art and the museum that houses it. Presenting a diverse range of international cases of exhibitions and curatorial practices, which hail primarily from Europe and Scandinavia, the essays examine the politics of staging "national", "international", and "global" framings of modernism, as well as the new public spaces shaped in digital practices and changing political frameworks. The book investigates both the seminal and the unknown exhibitions and institutions that created contemporary art as we know it today. Curating the Contemporary in the Art Museum provides a historical perspective on the museum of contemporary art. It constitutes a step towards differencing the canon of modernist and contemporary art and a more complex understanding of the politics of curating the contemporary in the art museum, why it will be of interest to academics and students engaged in the study of museums, curating, exhibitions, and art history"--