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The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World

The Philosophy of Curatorial Practice: Between Work and World

Spaid, Sue

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Art

ISBN10: 1350114898
ISBN13: 9781350114890
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Oct 15 2020
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.29
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book walks us through the process of how artworks eventually get their meaning, showing us how curated exhibitions invite audience members to weave an exhibition's narrative threads, which gives artworks their contents and discursive sense.

Arguing that exhibitions avail artworks as candidates for reception, whose meaning, value, and relevance reflect audience responses, it challenges the existing view that exhibitions present already-validated candidates for appreciation. Instead, this book stresses the collaborative nature of curatorial practices, debunking the twin myths of autonomous artists and sovereign artistic directors and treating presentation and reception as separate processes. Employing set theory to distinguish curated exhibitions from uncurated exhibitions, installation art and collections, it demonstrates how exhibitions grant spectators access to concepts that aid their capacity to grasp artifacts as artworks.

To inform and illuminate current debates in curatorial practice, Spaid draws on a range of case studies from Impressionism, Dada and Surrealism to more contemporary exhibitions such as Maurizio Cattelan All (2011) and Damien Hirst (2012). In articulating the process that cycles through exploration, interpretation, presentation and reception, curating bears resemblance to artistic direction more generally.

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