Curious lessons in the museum : the pedagogic potential of artists' interventions / Claire Robins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Robins, Claire.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artists and museums.

Art museums--Educational aspects.

Art museums.

Art museums--Exhibitions.

Museum techniques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Amongst recent contemporary art and museological publications, there have been relatively few which direct attention to the distinct contributions that twentieth and twenty-first century artists have made to gallery and museum interpretation practices. There are fewer still that recognise the pedagogic potential of interventionist artworks in galleries and museums. This book fills that gap and demonstrates how artists have been making curious but, none-the-less, useful contributions to museum education and curation for some time. This valuable book will be essential reading for students and sc

Contents:

Shifting priorities for learning in the museum

Historical tracings of artists' interventions in the early twentieth century

Historical tracings of artists' interventions in the mid-twentieth century

Humour, irony and parody

Jokers, tricksters and the parafictional

An elite experience for everyone : a case study intervention at the William Morris Gallery, London

The role of artists' interventions in opening up micro, counter and affective narratives in museum interpretation

Artists' interventions and the reflexive museum : addressing difference

The affable interventionists.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-57560-4

1-317-15553-X

1-317-15552-1

1-4094-3618-7

9781315575605

OCLC:

847526731