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Performance in the Museum

Performance in the Museum

Saurisse, Pierre

Hardcover

Series: New Directions in Contemporary Art

Art HistoryGeneral ArtPerformance Art

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ISBN10: 1848223803
ISBN13: 9781848223806
Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Published: Oct 10 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.35 Depth: 8.11
Language: English

Performance in the Museum charts the main stages of the inclusion of performance in the museum from the 1960s to the present day, offering a thought-provoking and highly readable assessment of some fundamental questions in contemporary curatorial practice. While performance emerged in the late 1960s as an anti-institutional form of art, it has recently gained an extraordinary visibility in contemporary art museums. This book focuses on four specific areas affecting museums: the staging of live performance within exhibitions; the conservation of performance; the acquisition of performance works; and research on performance. What emerges from this study is that the museum, although rarely anticipating the specific issues raised by performance, has assumed a unique position in devising curatorial strategies adapted to this medium.

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