Thinking Contemporary Curating

Name: Thinking Contemporary Curating
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ISBN: 9780916365868

ISBN-10: 0916365867

ISBN-13: 9780916365868

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kate Fowle, Terry Smith

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What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibition-making; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly of concern, are issues such as rethinking spectatorship, engaging viewers as co-curators and the challenge of curating contemporaneity itself. In these five essays, art historian and theorist Terry Smith surveys the international landscape of current thinking by curators; explores a number of…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Independent Curators International
Publication date: 10/31/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.902
Language: English

Terry Smith is a Distinguished Research Professor at DePauw College of Law.