Radical Museology: Or What's Contemporary in Museums of

Radical Museology: Or What's Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art?

With austerity cuts to public funding, many contemporary art museums have been forced to scale down their budgets, staff and acquisitions. In Radical Museology, New Yorkâ€“based art historian Claire Bishop argues that the incommensurability of fiscal and cultural temporality--one fast, the other slower--points to an alternative world of values in which museums (and by extension, culture, education and democracy in general) are not subject to the banalities of a spreadsheet, but enable us to access a rich and diverse history, to question the present and to realize a different future. She discusses creative solutions implemented at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, the Museo Nacional de Reina SofÃa in Madrid and MSUM in Ljubljana. This book is a manifesto for the importance of a politicized representation of the contemporary in todayâ€™s art.
Country USA
Brand KÖNIG, WALTHER
Manufacturer Walther König, Köln
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 18 colour, 18 b&w illustrations
ReleaseDate 2014-02-28
UnitCount 1
EANs 9783863353643

Radical Museology: Or What's Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art?