Main entry:

Smith, Terry (Terry E.)

Title & Author:

Thinking contemporary curating / Terry Smith.

Publication:

New York, NY : Independent Curators International, ©2012.

Description:

269 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Series:

ICI perspectives in curating ; no. 1

Notes:
"The first in a new publication series ... entitled Perspectives in curating which offers timely reflections by curators, artists, critics, and art historians on emergent debates in curatorial practice around the world"--Title page verso.
"The first in a new publication series ... entitled Perspectives in curating which offers timely reflections by curators, artists, critics, and art historians on emergent debates in curatorial practice around the world"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
The lure -- What is contemporary curatorial thought? -- Shifting the exhibitionary complex -- Artists as curators/Curators as artists -- Curating contemporaneity -- Curatorial practice now -- The infrastructural.

Summary:

"Thinking Contemporary Curating is the first book to offer an in-depth analysis of the volatile territory of international curatorial practice and the thinking--or insight--that underpins it. In five essays, renowned art historian and critic Terry Smith describes how today curators take on roles far beyond exhibition making, to include reimagining museums; writing the history of curating; creating discursive platforms and undertaking social or political activism, as well as rethinking spectatorship. The catalyst for the publication was 'The Now Museum' conference that ICI produced in collaboration with the CUNY Graduate Center and the New Museum in New York in 2011. In panel discussions and lectures over 30 leading artists, art historians, curators, and museum directors, such as art historian Claire Bishop, Okwui Enwezor (Director, Haus der Kunst), Massimiliano Gioni (Associate Director and Director of Exhibitions, New Museum), Lu Jie (Director, Long March), Maria Lind (Director, Tensta Konsthall) and Terry Smith discussed the diversification of the notion of the 'museum of contemporary art, ' providing intergenerational perspectives on recent developments across Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. This spurred a year-long journey for Smith, responding to ideas, events, and encounters in the artworld in the process of questioning what 'curating' is today, which forms the heart of this publication."--Publisher's description.

ISBN:

9780916365868
0916365867

Subject:

Art, Modern 21st century.
Art Exhibitions Philosophy.
Art Exhibition techniques.
Art museum curators.
Museum curators.
Artists as art museum curators.
Art 21e siècle.
Art Expositions Philosophie.
Art Techniques d'exposition.
Conservateurs de musée d'art.
Artistes conservateurs de musée d'art.
Art.
Art, Modern.

Added entries:

ICI perspectives in curating ; no. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 281017
Call No.: BIB 218118
Status: Available