Absence and difficult knowledge in contemporary art museums
"This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Drawing on social art history, museology, postcolonial theory, and memory studies, Margaret Tali analyzes the collections of four modern and contemporary art museu…
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- Full title :Absence and difficult knowledge in contemporary art museums / Margaret Tali.
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"This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Drawing on social art history, museology, postcolonial theory, and memory studies, Margaret Tali analyzes the collections of four modern and contemporary art museums across Europe: the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, and the Kumu Museum in Tallinn."--Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York, New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (165 pages) : : illustrations, photographs.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781315114118, 1315114119, 9781351626347, 1351626345
- oclc:on1257368481
- LC Classification:N430
- Dewey Decimal:708.001
Table of Contents
Chapter Introduction -- chapter 1 The Presence of Joseph Beuys and the Struggle Over his Legacy in Berlin -- chapter 2 Absencing and Presencing in Exhibition Narratives -- chapter 3 Collectors' Space and the Agents of Narration -- chapter 4 The Ludwig Collection in Budapest and the Absent Eastern Europe -- chapter 5 Interrogating the Archival Logic -- chapter 6 Archival Absence.
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