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Theater of exhibitions / Jens Hoffmann.
LIBRA N408 .H63 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hoffmann, Jens, 1974-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Curatorship.
- Art--Exhibition techniques.
- Art.
- Art, Modern--20th century--History.
- Art, Modern.
- History.
- Art, Modern--21st century--History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 88 pages, 8 leaves : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- "Theater of Exhibitions analyzes "art after the end of art," questioning whether inherited frameworks of making, theorizing, and exhibiting art still apply to contemporary practice. The book also considers the current commodification of the art industry and the distribution of images in the digital age. Drawing from his formation in theater and his own curatorial work, Jens Hoffmann reflects on the spaces of contemporary art--the gallery, the institution, the biennial--and ultimately positions the discipline of curating in the context of a larger cultural sphere shaped by the political, social, and economic conditions of its time, while demanding new attitudes and new thinking. Hoffmann's theater posits the exhibition as an anthropological endeavor, and the curator as its agent."--Back cover
- Contents:
- Some remarks on: an introduction
- Some remarks on: the end of art
- Some remarks on: art after the end of art
- Some remarks on: the alleged death of the exhibition
- Some remarks on: the gallery as theater
- Some remarks on: the curator as an agent of social change
- Some remarks on: the curator as author
- Some remarks on: the exhibition as a dramatic construction
- Some remarks on: the making of an exhibition (or three)
- Some remarks on: making sense, or not (contemporary curating)
- Some remarks on: the curator's dangerous mind
- Some remarks on: a requisite recalibration of the curatorial
- Some remarks on: the ubiquitous and strangely homogeneous biennial
- Some remarks on: the theater of independence, institutionalization, and commercialization
- Some remarks on: the continued necessity of making exhibitions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George R. Gund Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 3956790871
- 9783956790874
- OCLC:
- 918278030
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