Main entry:

Möntmann, Nina, 1969- author.

Title & Author:

Decentring the museum : contemporary art institutions and colonial legacies / Nina Möntmann ; translated from the German by Gerrit Jackson.

Publication:

London, UK : Lund Humphries, 2023.
©2023

Description:

144 pages : black and white illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

New directions in contemporary art

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-134) and index.
Foreword / Marcus Verhagen -- Introduction: Why decentre museums, and why now? -- The colonial dilemma of the modern museum -- Central theoretical concepts : from decolonising to decentring -- Repairing the anthropological museum -- Decolonial sensibilities and decentring practices of small-scale art organisations -- The contemporary art museum : between the anthropological museum and small art spaces -- Epilogue: Decentred museums as infrastructures of people.

Summary:

"Nina Möntmann's ... book extends the decolonisation debate to the institutions of contemporary art. ... Illustrated with pertinent examples of best practice, she argues that to play a crucial role within increasingly diverse societies museums and galleries of contemporary art have a responsibility to 'decentre' their institutions, removing from their collections, exhibition policies and infrastructures a deeply embedded Euro-centric cultural focus with roots in the history of colonialism. In this, she argues, they can learn from the example both of anthropological museums (such as the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne), which are engaged in debates about the colonial histories of their collections, about trauma and repair, and of small-scale art spaces (such as La Colonie, Paris, ANO, Institute of Arts and Knowledge, Accra or Savvy Contemporary, Berlin), which have the flexibility, based on informal infrastructures, to initiate different kinds of conversation and collective knowledge production in collaboration with indigenous or local diasporic communities from the Global South. ... This book identifies the influence that anthropological museums and small art spaces can exert on museums of contemporary art to initiate a process of decentring."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781848225503 (hardcover)
1848225504 (hardcover)
(pdf)
9781848225534
(ePub)
9781848225527
(Mobipocket)
9781848225510

Subject:

Art museums Philosophy.
Museums Philosophy.
Decolonization.
Musées Philosophie.
Décolonisation.
ART / Art & Politics.

Added entries:

Jackson, Gerrit, translator.
Verhagen, Marcus, writer of foreword.
New directions in contemporary art.

Contemporary art institutions and colonial legacies

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319375
Call No.: 319375
Copy: 1
Status: Available