On the Museum's Ruins

Name: On the Museum's Ruins
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ISBN: 9780262531269

ISBN-10: 0262531267

ISBN-13: 9780262531269

Edition: 1995

Authors: Douglas Crimp, Louise Lawler

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On the Museum's Ruins presents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived, not only the practices of artists -- Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Serra, Sherrie Levine, and Robert Mapplethorpe -- but those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums such as the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and the Martin-Gropius-Bau…

Book details

List price: $40.95
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/27/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 370
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.848
Language: English

Douglas Crimp is Fanny Knapp Allen Professor of Art History at the University of Rochester. He is the author of On the Museum's Ruins and Melancholia and Moralism: Essays on AIDS and Queer Politics, both published by the MIT Press.



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction


Photographs at the End of Modernism


Photography in the Museum


On the Museum's Ruins


The Museum's Old, the Library's New Subject


The End of Painting


The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism


Appropriating Appropriation


The End of Sculpture


Redefining Site Specificity


Postmodern History


This Is Not a Museum of Art


The Art of Exhibition


The Postmodern Museum


Credits


Index