Who says, who shows, what counts : thinking about history with the Block's Collection / Edited by Essi Rönkkö and Kate Hadley Toftness.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rönkkö, Essi, editor.

Toftness, Kate Hadley, editor.

Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, issuing body, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Modern--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Modern.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

173 pages : illustrations (mostly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Evanston, IL : The Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, [2021]

Summary:

Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts invites readers to think critically about how artists, artworks, and museums engage with narratives of the past. Richly illustrated and written for a general audience, this book showcases the depth and breadth of more than fifty recent acquisitions to the Block Museum of Art's contemporary collection, including a wide-ranging selection of works by Dawoud Bey, Shan Goshorn, the Guerrilla Girls, Marisol, Kerry James Marshall, Catherine Opie, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Thomas Struth, Tseng Kwong Chi, and Kara Walker, among other artists.0The book is a companion publication to the 2021 exhibition of the same name, presented to celebrate the museum's fortieth anniversary, and both draw inspiration from a work by conceptual artist Louise Lawler, Who Says, Who Shows, Who Counts (1990), and are organized around challenging questions of historical representation within artworks and institutions: How can art help us reflect upon, question, rewrite, or reimagine the past? Who has been represented in visual art, how, and by whom? How is history etched onto a landscape or erased from it? How do museums and dominant canons of art history shape our view of history and of the past? Who Says, Who Shows, What Counts demonstrates how an academic art museum's collection can facilitate multidisciplinary connections and tell stories about issues relevant to our lives.

Local Notes:

Published in conjunction with the exhibition held September 22-December 5, 2021 at the Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University.

ISBN:

9781732568426

1732568421

OCLC:

1263759921