L’Internationale, Sarah Werkmeister (eds.): Ecologising Museums (2016)

15 December 2016, dusan

“The implications around climate change have far-reaching consequences but they can also have far-reaching benefits. The e-publication Ecologising Museums explores how museums and cultural institutions can face the issue not only head-on, but from all angles. To what degree are the core activities of collecting, preserving and presenting in fact attitudes that embody an unsustainable view of the world and the relationship between man and nature?”

Publisher L’Internationale Online, 2016
Creative Commons BY-NC-SA License
126 pages

Publisher

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Kynaston McShine: The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect (1999)

17 September 2016, dusan

The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect surveys the ways in which artists, mostly of the 20th century, have addressed the museum, commented on its nature, confronted its concepts and functions, drawn from its methods, and examined its relationship to the art it contains. This lively, involving, and intellectually provocative presentation encompasses a tremendous variety of artworks, large and small, intimate and expansive, in mediums both familiar and surprising: paintings, sculptures, photographs, drawings, prints, videos, and installations. Fully illustrated with the works of an international cross section of more than 60 artists.

Published on the occasion of the MoMA exhibition, this book features an introductory essay by Kynaston McShine, curator of the exhibition. In the ensuing plate secton, short entries by several authors on the art and artists accompany 233 illustrations representing works of artists such as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Elliott Erwitt, Eve Arnold, Garry Winogrand, and Thomas Struth. Personal museums and cabinets of curiosities, large and in miniature, have been created by Carles Wilson Peale, Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Cornell, Claes Oldenburg, Fluxus, and Mark Dion; others have focused on images of the destruction or transformation of museums, such as the painter Hubert Robert (the first curator of the Louvre), Edward Ruscha, Komar and Melamid, and Christo.

This wealth of material is followed by an anthology of manifestos, statements, and meditations written by artists; biographies and exhibition stories of the artists; and a bibliography of general and monographic publications.” (book jacket, modified)

Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1999
ISBN 0870700928, 9780870700927
296 pages
via MoMA

Exh. reviews: Robert Smith (NY Times, 1999), Economist (1999), Thomas Crow (Artforum).

Exhibition
Publisher
WorldCat

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A.A. Bronson, Peggy Gale (eds.): Museums by Artists (1983) [English/French]

18 July 2016, dusan

“An anthology of texts and works exploring the relationship of the artist to the museum, from Marcel Duchamp’s seminal Boite-en-Valise and Claes Oldenburg’s Mouse Museum to the critical work of Hans Haacke and Daniel Buren. Harald Szeemann’s proposal for the ‘Museum of Obsessions’ at a future Documenta is here reproduced in English for the first time.”

With texts / works by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Michael Asher, AA Bronson, Marcel Broodthaers, Benjamin Buchloh, Daniel Buren, Marcel Duchamp, Robert Filliou, Vera Frenkel, General Idea, Walter Grasskamp, Hans Haacke, Wulf Herzogenrath, Image Bank, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Gary Neill Kennedy, Joseph Kosuth, Les Levine, Glenn Lewis, George Maciunas, Piero Manzoni, Claes Oldenburg, Museum of Conceptual Art, N.E. Thing Company Limited, Garry Schum, and Harald Szeemann.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2 Apr – 15 May 1983.

Cover by Daniel Buren
Publisher Art Metropole, Toronto, 1983
ISBN 0920956130, 9780920956137
287 pages
via j.eagleton

Publisher
WorldCat

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