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Books for Museum Studies Students
The following hand-picked books provide useful material for students, particularly on the topics of curating and museum registration:
Rethinking Curating by Beryl Graham; Sarah Cook; Steve Dietz (Foreword by)As curator Steve Dietz has observed, new media art is like contemporary art -- but different. New media art involves interactivity, networks, and computation and is often about process rather than objects. New media artworks are difficult to classify according to the traditional art museum categories determined by medium, geography, and chronology and present the curator with novel challenges involving interpretation, exhibition, and dissemination.
ISBN: 9780262013888
Publication Date: 2010-02-05
Cautionary tales : critical curating by Steven Rand; Heather Kouris; Apex Art C.P. (Gallery)Ten international art related professionals consider the increased influence of independent curators and cultural producers and how the role of the curator has changed over the last ten years. Using examples from past exhibitions and personal experiences, the writers address how working within an institution differs from being independent, the difficulties of balancing artistic vision with expectations of funders and institutions, and the ethical issues of working with artists and collectors.
The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s) by Paul O'NeillOnce considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis.
ISBN: 9780262017725
Publication Date: 2012-08-17
Thinking Contemporary Curating by Kate Fowle (Introduction by); Terry SmithWhat is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibition-making; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism.
ISBN: 9780916365868
Publication Date: 2012-10-31
On Curating by Carolee Thea; Hans Ulrich Obrist (Foreword by); Thomas Micchelli (Editor)On Curating, Carolee Thea's second volume of interviews with ten of today's leading curators, explores the intellectual convictions and personal visions that lay the groundwork for the most prestigious and influential exhibitions in the world today. Among the aesthetic and theoretical issues raised are the relationship between artist and curator, globalism, post-colonialism, capitalism, the future of cultural tourism and the biennial as spectacle or utopian ideal.
ISBN: 9781935202004
Publication Date: 2010-01-31
Learning to Look by Joshua C. TaylorSometimes seeing is more difficult for the student of art than believing. Taylor, in a book that has sold more than 300,000 copies since its original publication in 1957, has helped two generations of art students "learn to look." This handy guide to the visual arts is designed to provide a comprehensive view of art, moving from the analytic study of specific works to a consideration of broad principles and technical matters.
ISBN: 9780226791548
Publication Date: 1981-06-15
Practices of Looking by Marita Sturken; Lisa CartwrightPractices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of how we understand a wide array of visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to play, and to learn. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright--two leading scholars in the emergent and dynamic field of visual culture and communication--examine the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis and lead students through key theories and concepts.
ISBN: 9780195314403
Publication Date: 2009-01-02
Ways of Seeing by John BergerJohn Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the (London) Sunday Times critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on "how" we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.