Collecting The New

Author : Bruce Altshuler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-24
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781400849352

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Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring such art, museums gamble on the future. In addition, new technologies and alternative conceptions of the artwork have created special problems of conservation, while social, political, and aesthetic changes have generated new categories of works to be collected. Following Bruce Altshuler's introduction on the European and American history of museum collecting of art by living artists, the book comprises newly commissioned essays by twelve distinguished curators representing a wide range of museums. First considered are general issues including the acquisition process, and collecting by universal survey museums and museums that focus on modern and contemporary art. Following are groups of essays that address collecting in particular media, including prints and drawings, new (digital) media, and film and video; and national- and ethnic-specific collecting (contemporary art from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and African-American art). The closing essay examines the conservation problems created by contemporary works--for example, what is to be done when deterioration is the artist's intent? The contributors are Christophe Cherix, Vishakha N. Desai, Steve Dietz, Howard N. Fox, Chrissie Iles and Henriette Huldisch, Pamela McClusky, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Lowery Stokes Sims, Robert Storr, Jeffrey Weiss, and Glenn Wharton.

Author : Beryl Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317088653

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New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences after New Media Art by Beryl Graham Pdf

The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the new kinds of relationships that might occur between audiences as viewers, participants, selectors, taggers or taxonomisers. New media art presents many challenges to the curator and collector, but there is very little published analytical material available to help meet those challenges. This book fills that gap. Drawing from the editor's extensive research and the authors' expertise in the field, the book provides clear navigation through a disparate arena. The authors offer examples from a wide geographical reach, including the UK, North America and Asia and integrate the consideration of audience response into all aspects of their work. The book will be essential reading for those studying or practicing in new media, curating or museums and galleries.

Author : Bruce Altshuler
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-12
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0691133735

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Collecting the New by Bruce Altshuler Pdf

Twelve distinguished curators discuss the questions & challenges faced by museums in acquiring & preserving contemporary art.

Author : Arlene Leis,Kacie L. Wills
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000175189

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Women and the Art and Science of Collecting in Eighteenth-Century Europe by Arlene Leis,Kacie L. Wills Pdf

Through both longer essays and shorter case studies, this book examines the relationship of European women from various countries and backgrounds to collecting, in order to explore the social practices and material and visual cultures of collecting in eighteenth-century Europe. It recovers their lives and examines their interests, their methodologies, and their collections and objects—some of which have rarely been studied before. The book also considers women’s role as producers, that is, creators of objects that were collected. Detailed examination of the artefacts—both visually, and in relation to their historical contexts—exposes new ways of thinking about collecting in relation to the arts and sciences in eighteenth-century Europe. The book is interdisciplinary in its makeup and brings together scholars from a wide range of fields. It will be of interest to those working in art history, material and visual culture, history of collecting, history of science, literary studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and art conservation.

Author : Beryl Graham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781317088660

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New Collecting: Exhibiting and Audiences after New Media Art by Beryl Graham Pdf

The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media art. Because new media is used as a means of documenting, archiving and distributing art, and because new media art might be interactive with its audiences, this highlights the new kinds of relationships that might occur between audiences as viewers, participants, selectors, taggers or taxonomisers. New media art presents many challenges to the curator and collector, but there is very little published analytical material available to help meet those challenges. This book fills that gap. Drawing from the editor's extensive research and the authors' expertise in the field, the book provides clear navigation through a disparate arena. The authors offer examples from a wide geographical reach, including the UK, North America and Asia and integrate the consideration of audience response into all aspects of their work. The book will be essential reading for those studying or practicing in new media, curating or museums and galleries.

Author : Marjory Jacobson
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015032811484

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Art for Work by Marjory Jacobson Pdf

Author : Mary Ellisor Emmerling
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 0517583674

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Mary Emmerling's New Country Collecting by Mary Ellisor Emmerling Pdf

Thirteen years after the publication of Collecting American Country, Mary Emmerling returns with this new book that focuses on today's country collecting scene. Illustrated with 350 full-color photos, this book explores the latest trends by taking readers into the homes of 21 dealers and collectors.

Author : Oliver Grau (Hg.)
Publisher : Edition Donau-Universität Krems
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783903150522

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Digital Art through the Looking Glass by Oliver Grau (Hg.) Pdf

Digital art challenges archiving, collecting and preserving methods within and outside of gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) institutions. By its media, art in the digital sphere is processual, contextual, modular and ephemeral, and its creative process is collaborative. From artists, scholars, technicians and conservators—to preserve this contemporary art is a transdisciplinary task. This book brings together leading international experts from digital art theory and preservation, digital humanities, collection management, conservation and media art histories. In a transdisciplinary approach, theoretic and practice-based research from these stakeholders in art, research, education and exhibition are presented to create an overview of present preservation methods and discuss demands and opportunities for the future. Finally, the need for a new appropriate museum and archive infrastructure is shown to preserve the art of our time.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004677500

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Centring the Periphery: New Perspectives on Collecting East Asian Objects by Anonim Pdf

Centring the Periphery: New Perspectives on Collecting East Asian Objects, edited by Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, explores East Asian collections in "peripheral" areas of Europe and North America and their relationship with the East Asian collections in former imperial and colonial centres. The authors not only present the stories of a number of less well-known individual objects and collections, but also discuss the evolution of fashions and tastes in East Asian objects in areas that were not centres of European colonial power, and the socioeconomic conditions in which they were collected. To date, research on the collecting of East Asian objects in the Euro-American region has focused primarily on larger collections and collectors. The stories from the periphery, however, deserve to be told. They point to important departures from the dominant discourses and practices of East Asian collecting, thus raising questions about established taxonomies and knowledge systems. With contributions by Tina Berdajs, Chou Wei-Chiang, Györgyi Fajcsák, Jin Han, Sarah Laursen, Beatrix Mecsi, Motoh Helena, Stacey Pierson, Maria Sobotka, Filip Suchomel, Barbara Trnovec, Nataša Vampelj Suhadolnik, Brigid Vance, Maja Veselič, Nataša Visočnik Gerželj, Bettina Zorn.

Author : Elizabeth Arnaud,Jean-Pierre Horry
Publisher : Bioversity International
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782910810146

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Musalogue: a catalogue of Musa germplasm - Papua New Guinea collecting missions 1988-1989 by Elizabeth Arnaud,Jean-Pierre Horry Pdf

Author : Jonathan Scott,Book and Magazine Collector
Publisher : Diamond Publishing Group Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Book collecting
ISBN : 0953260178

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Collecting Children's Books by Jonathan Scott,Book and Magazine Collector Pdf

This book contains a complete list of children's works by over 200 collectable authors and illustrators, and provides help in identifying the collectable editions of all the works listed. It also includes a guide to the value of every first edition.

Author : Audrey Geisel
Publisher : Random House
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-10-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780679434481

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The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss by Audrey Geisel Pdf

These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues not seen in the primary-color palette of his books for children, and exhibit a sophisticated and often quite unrestrained side of the artist. 65 color illustrations.

Author : James Delbourgo
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 067423748X

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Collecting the World by James Delbourgo Pdf

Winner of the Leo Gershoy Award Winner of the Louis Gottschalk Prize A Times Book of the Week When the British Museum opened its doors in 1759, it was the first free national public museum in the world. Collecting the World tells the story of the eccentric collector whose thirst for universal knowledge brought it into being. A man of insatiable curiosity and wide-ranging interests, Hans Sloane assembled a collection of antiquities, oddities, and artifacts from around the British Empire to form the most famous cabinet of curiosities of its time. With few curbs on his passion, he established a network of agents to supply him with objects from China, India, the Caribbean, and beyond. Wampum beads, rare manuscripts, a shoe made of human skin: nothing was off limits. The first biography of Sloane based on his complete writings, Collecting the World portrays one of the Enlightenment's most original luminaries. "A magnificent scholarly coup and an enthralling read... It conveys the excitement of original research as well as the thrill of tracking exotic curiosities to their source." --Sunday Times "Delbourgo's engrossing new biography situates Sloane within the welter of intellectual and political crosscurrents that marked his times." --New York Times Book Review "A superb biography--humane, judicious and as passionately curious as Sloane himself." --Times Literary Supplement "A superb book, enjoyably written, beautifully illustrated, and based on deep knowledge of the sources." --The Telegraph

Author : Rochelle Ziskin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780271037851

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Sheltering Art by Rochelle Ziskin Pdf

"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Tiqui Atencio
Publisher : Art / Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Art
ISBN : 1908970243

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Could Have, Would Have, Should Have by Tiqui Atencio Pdf

What does it take to be a serious art collector? What drives someone to go after a particular work regardless of the cost? What form of addiction or compulsion causes an individual to devote vast amounts of time, money and emotional energy in pursuit of something that is unobtainable to most of us? Tiqui Atencio has been collecting since she was eighteen years old. Decades later she is one of the most prominent collectors of contemporary art, on the boards of international museums and art-world power lists. For Could Have, Would Have, Should Have, she has interviewed more than eighty of the world's most influential collectors - from financiers to artists - and asked them to tell their own story of how they started to collect and what continues to motivate them. In a series of thirty chapters - among them 'Serendipity', 'Obsessions', 'Auction moments', 'What was I thinking?', 'To sell or not sell', 'Being custodians' - they reveal their highs and lows, the successes and regrets, the shared passions and intense rivalries, the works that got away ... and the ones that perhaps should have done. Their anecdotes and recollections reveal the many practical and emotional aspects of collecting art, all the unexpected pleasures and challenges. What emerges is a frank and honest, surprising and eye-opening, and sometimes hilarious account of a lifelong dedication that is described by some as a heroic commitment and by others as a crazy sickness. Cartoons throughout the book by celebrated artist and satirist Pablo Helguera complement the humorous and entertaining tone of the text.