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A Companion to Curation
Brad Buckley (Edited by), John Conomos (Edited by)
9781119206859, Wiley
Hardback, published 27 January 2020
528 pages
24.6 x 16.8 x 2.5 cm, 1.043 kg
The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the knowledge and experience of prominent curators, artists, art historians, scholars, and theorists in one comprehensive volume. Part of the Blackwell Companion series, this much-needed book provides up-to-date information and valuable insights on the field of curatorial studies and curation in the visual arts. Accessible and engaging chapters cover diverse, contemporary methods of curation, its origin and history, current and emerging approaches within the profession, and more. This timely publication fills a significant gap in literature on the role of the curator, the art and science of curating, and the historical arc of the field from the 17th century to the present. The Companion explores topics such as global developments in contemporary indigenous art, Asian and Chinese art since the 1980s, feminist and queer feminist curatorial practices, and new curatorial strategies beyond the museum. This unique volume: Broad in scope and detailed in content, A Companion to Curation is an essential text for professionals engaged in varied forms of curation, teachers and students of museum studies, and readers interested in the workings of the art world, museums, benefactors, and curators.
Series Editor’s Preface x About the Editors xi Notes on Contributors xiii Acknowledgments xvii Foreword xviii List of Illustrations xx Introduction xxiv Part I An Overview: The Origin and Provenance of Curating 1 1 A Selective History of Curating in Pittsburgh: The Recent Story of the Carnegie International 3 2 Curating Curiosity: Imperialism, Materialism, Humanism, and the Wunderkammer 23 3 Professionalizing the Field: The Case of the United States 43 4 The Emergence of the Professional Curator 67 Part II Movements, Models, People, and Politics 87 5 Curating as a Verb: 100 Years of Nation States 89 6 Curating without Borders: Transnational Feminist and Queer Feminist Practices for the Twenty‐first Century 111 7 Displacements and Sites: Notes on a Curatorial Method 134 8 Africa, Art, and Knowing Nothing: Some Thoughts on Curating at the British Museum 143 9 Curatorial Crisis 160 Part III The Curator in a Globalized World 169 10 “We Care as Much as You Pay” – Curating Asian Art 171 11 Museums Are Everywhere in China, There Is No Museum in China: (or, How Institutional Typologies Define Curatorial Practices) 193 12 Curating the Contemporary in Decolonial Spaces: Observations from Thailand on Curatorial Practice in Southeast Asia 206 13 Curated from Within: The Artist as Curator 232 14 Decolonizing the Ethnographic Museum 262 15 The Creature from the Id: Adventures in Aboriginal Art Curating 277 16 The Impact of Context Specificity in Curating amidst the Forces at Play in a Globalized World of Realms 291 17 The Neglected Object of Curation 306 Part IV Beyond the Museum: Curating at the Frontier 323 18 Parallel Processing: Public Art and New Media Art 325 19 Approach to the Curatorship of Virtual Reality Exhibitions 360 20 Tracing the Ephemeral and Contestational: Aesthetics and Politics of The Living Archive 375 21 Curating with the Internet 391 22 Arts and Science: The Intersection (Re)engineered 422 Index 447
David Carrier
Adam Geczy Copyrighted Material
Andrew McClellan
Carole Paul
Juli Carson
Elke Krasny
Maria Lind
Chris Spring
Martha Wilson
Thomas J. Berghuis
Biljana Círic ́
Gregory Galligan
Alex Gawronski
Gerald McMaster
Djon Mundine
Fatoş Üstek
Lee Weng‐Choy
Sara Diamond
Arnau Gifreu‐Castells
Eric Kluitenberg
Sean Lowry
Melentie Pandilovski
Subject Areas: Museology & heritage studies [GM]
