Title & Author:

The transhistorical museum : mapping the field / editors, Eva Wittocx, Ann Demeester, Peter Carpreau, Melanie Bühler, Xander Karskens.

Publication:

Amsterdam : Valiz, [2018]
©2018

Description:

220 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Series:

Vis-à-vis

Notes:
The publication is part of the long-term research project "The Transhistorical Museum: Objects, Narratives and Temporalities", an initiative by the Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem and M-Museum Leuven on the subject of transhistoricity in museological and curatorial practices
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Part 1. Terminology & theoretical horizon. Notes on transhistoricity: between art theory and curatorial practice / Nicola Setari -- (Re)Discovering art history's philosophical foundations: an interview with Hanneke Grootenboer / Melanie Bühler -- Towards a relational inter-temporality / Mieke Bal -- Transhistoric display and colonial (dis)encounters / María Íñigo Clavo and Olga Fernández López -- Part 2. Art & time. Undoing time: art's anachronistic capacities: an interview with Alexander Nagel -- In & out of time / Penelope Curtis -- The paradox of the value of art: constructing meaning and the boundaries of history / Peter Carpreau -- An emerging ethics of the transhistorical exhibition: Beuys, Büchler, Books / Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes -- Part 3. Curatorial strategies. The books in which we learn to read: contemporary artists and their place within historical museums / Jasper Sharp -- Visual thinking: 'carambolages' at Grand Palais Paris / Jean-Hubert Martin -- Film montage as a curatorial method / Bice Curiger -- 'Migration of form' at documenta 12 / Ruth Noack -- Setting 'a global table': seventeenth-century still life, colonial history, and contemporary art / Abigail Winograd -- documenta 14: a transhistorical dérive / Hendrik Folkerts.

Summary:

In the 21st century we have witnessed a significant expansion in the field of transhistorical exhibition practice. A range of curatorial efforts have emerged in which objects and artefacts from various periods and art historical and cultural contexts are combined in display, in an effort to question and expand traditional museological notions such as chronology, context, and category. Such experiments in transcending art historical boundaries can result in fresh insights into the workings of entrenched historical presumptions, providing a space to reassess interpretations of individual objects. With contributions by Mieke Bal, Hendrik Folkerts, Nicola Setari, Maria Iñigo Clavo, and others.

ISBN:

9789492095527 (pbk.)
9492095521 (pbk.)

Subject:

Museum techniques.
Art History Philosophy.
Curatorship Philosophy.
Muséologie.
Art Histoire Philosophie.
Conservation Philosophie.
museology.
20.12 art museums.
Art Philosophy.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Wittocx, Eva, editor, contributor.
Demeester, Ann, editor, contributor.
Carpreau, Peter, editor, contributor.
Bühler, Melanie, editor, contributor.
Karskens, Xander, editor, contributor.
Bal, Mieke, 1946- contributor.
Curiger, Bice, 1948- contributor.
Curtis, Penelope, contributor.
Fernández López, Olga, contributor.
Vis-à-vis (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 302557
Call No.: BIB 248730
Status: Available