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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:
Museum Registration Methods by
The first new edition in a decade of this famous "Bible of the museum registrar." Rewritten, expanded and fully updated, MRM5 encompasses all that needs to be known and done when a museum accessions, measures, marks, moves, displays or stores an object or artifact of any kind. MRM5 includes expert advice from more than 60 acknowledged leaders in their disciplines.
ISBN: 9781933253152Publication Date: 2010-05-03
Harald Szeemann - Individual Methodology by
This publication is the result of a research project developed by the 16th Session of the International Curatorial Training Program of Le Magasin, Grenoble-Francois Aubart, Julija Cistiakova, Haeju Kim, Lucia Pesapane, Fabien Pinaroli, Karla G. Roalandini-Beyer, Yuka Tokuyama, and Sadie Woods-under the editiorial direction of Florence Derieux.
ISBN: 9783905829099Publication Date: 2008-03-01
Rethinking Curating 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: 9780262013888Publication Date: 2010-02-05
Cautionary tales : critical curating by
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.
ISBN: 9781933347103Publication Date: 2007
A Brief History of Curating by
This publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs.
ISBN: 9783905829556Publication Date: 2008-10-01
Everything you always wanted to know about curating but were afraid to ask by
Various people interview art curator and critic Hans Ulrich Obrist about his life and work.
ISBN: 9781933128252Publication Date: 2011
The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s) by
Once 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: 9780262017725Publication Date: 2012-08-17
Thinking Contemporary Curating by
What 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: 9780916365868Publication Date: 2012-10-31
On Curating by
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: 9781935202004Publication Date: 2010-01-31
Learning to Look by
Sometimes 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: 9780226791548Publication Date: 1981-06-15
Practices of Looking by
Practices 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: 9780195314403Publication Date: 2009-01-02
Ways of Seeing by
John 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.
ISBN: 9780140135152Publication Date: 1990-12-01
