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Museum Highlights The Writings of Andrea Fraser

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ISBN-10: 0262062445

ISBN-13: 9780262062442

Edition: 2005

Authors: Andrea Fraser, Alexander Alberro

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Andrea Fraser's work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to "Museum Highlights, is able to "trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself." It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to critique -- as in a performance piece in which she leads a tour as a museum docent and describes the men's room in the same elevated language that she uses to describe seventeenth-century Dutch paintings. Influenced by the interdisciplinarity of postmodernism, Fraser's interventionist art draws on four primary artistic and intellectual frameworks -- institutional critique, with its…    
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Book details

List price: $42.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 9/2/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English

List of Illustrations
Foreword: Revolution and Revelation
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Mimicry, Excess, Critique
Critical Practices
An Artist's Statements (1992)
In and Out of Place (1985)
"Creativity = Capital"? (1986)
It's Art When I Say It's Art, or. . . (1995)
What's Intangible, Transitory, Mediating, Participatory, and Rendered in the Public Sphere? (1996)
What's Intangible, Transitory, Mediating, Participatory, and Rendered in the Public Sphere? Part II(1996)
"To Quote," Say the Kabyles, "Is to Bring Back to Life" (2002)
Public Institutions, Private Objects
Notes on the Museum's Publicity (1990)
Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk (1989)
A Letter to the Wadsworth Atheneum (1991)
Welcome to the Wadsworth (1991)
Aren't They Lovely? An Introduction (1992)
Professional Interests
A Speech on Documenta (1992)
How to Provide an Artistic Service: An Introduction (1994)
What Do I, as an Artist, Provide? (A Speech at the EA-Generali Foundation) (1995)
Slashing the American Canvas, or, Why I Would Rather Have a Day Job (1998)
A "Sensation" Chronicle (2001)
Official Welcome (2001)
In Conclusion?
Onward To The Past, Or, Art At The Forefront Of Regression
Isn't This a Wonderful Place? (A Tour of a Tour of the Guggenheim Bilbao) (2003)
Bibliography
Index