Museums After Modernism is a unique collectionthat showcases
the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary
debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art.
The book features expert artists, curators and art historians who
grapple with many of the vibrant issues in museum studies, while
paying homage to a new museology that needs to be considered.
* Examines the key contemporary debates in museum studies
* Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and art
historians
* Engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and
art-exhibiting
* Edited by the world-renowned art historian and author, Griselda
Pollock
Tabella dei contenuti
List of Figures.
Notes on Contributors.
Series Editor’s Preface.
Preface.
1. Un-Framing the Modern: Critical Space/Public Possibility
(Griselda Pollock, University of Leeds).
2. Women’s Rembrandt (Mieke Bal, University of
Amsterdam).
3. Museums and the Native Voice (Gerald Mc Master, Art Gallery of
Ontario).
4. Exhibiting Africa after Modernism: Globalization, Pluralism,
and Persistent Paradigms of Art and Artifact (Ruth B. Phillips,
Carleton University).
5. Mirroring Evil, Evil Mirrored: Timing, Trauma, and Temporary
Exhibitions (Reesa Greenberg, independent scholar and museum
consultant).
6. A Place for Uncertainty: Towards a New Kind of Museum (Vera
Frenkel, artist).
7. The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi: Notes on Gesture, Medium, and
Mediation (Mary Kelly, University of California, Los Angeles).
8. Riksutställningar: Swedish Traveling Exhibitions (Ulla
Arnell, Curator and Project Manager at Riksutställningar).
9. Reframing Participation in the Museum: A Syncopated
Discussion (Janna Graham, Ph D, University of London and Shadya
Yasin, student, York University, Toronto).
10. ‘There Is No Such Thing as a Visitor’ (Judith
Mastai, d. 2001).
11. ‘Anxious Dust’: History and Repression in the
Archives of Mary Kelly (Judith Mastai, d. 2001).
12. On Discourse as Monument: Institutional Spaces and Feminist
Problematics (Juli Carson, University of California, Irvine).
Bibliography.
Index.
Circa l’autore
Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical
Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, where she is also
Director of the Centre for Cultural Analysis, Theory, and History
(CATH).
Joyce Zemans is an art historian and curator. She is a
University Professor and Director of the MBA Program in Arts and
Media Administration at the Schulich School of Business, York
University, Toronto.