Acts of Engagement Writings on Art, Criticism, and Institutions, 1993-2002

Name: Acts of Engagement Writings on Art, Criticism, and Institutions, 1993-2002
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ISBN: 9780742529823

ISBN-10: 0742529827

ISBN-13: 9780742529823

Edition: 2004

Authors: Michael Brenson

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Acts of Engagement brings together writings spanning the extraordinarily eventful ten-year after the author left The New York Times, where he had been an art critic from 1982 to 1991. The writings fall into three broad areas: art, art criticism, and arts and cultural institutions. In each area, Brenson finds it imperative to consider issues such as responsibility, creativity, process, and voice - issues that have taken on increasing urgency as corporate culture has overcome almost every aspect of American life. If we are to understand and come to terms with the violent shift from multiculturalism to privatization and the difficult if not precarious situation American art and culture are now…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/13/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.94" wide x 8.86" long x 0.58" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English




Fighting words



Experience, complicity, and quality



Conversation



Juan Munoz : sound, sight, statuary



Art criticism and the aesthetic response



Where do we go from here? : the place of the artist and the NEA



Resisting the dangerous journey : the crisis of journalistic criticism



Art museums and "the public"



The curator's moment



The artist as a person



Healing in time



Audience, artist, institution, community



Maya Lin's time



Sometimes out of sight, never out of mind : the story of the hand in modernist sculpture



Giacometti's Dog



Power corrupts : for Daumier, humanity was in the streets



Magdalena's Abakanowicz's War games : monumental horizontality



The media and museums



Convenience and process : private versus public arts funding



The Guggenheim, corporate populism, and the future of the corporate museum