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Ways of Curating

Ways of Curating

Obrist, Hans Ulrich

Paperback

Art HistoryGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $18.00

ISBN10: 0374535698
ISBN13: 9780374535698
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Mar 15 2016
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.40 Depth: 8.10
Language: English

The world's most influential contemporary-art curator explores the history and practice of his craft

Hans Ulrich Obrist curated his first exhibit in his kitchen when he was twenty-three years old. Since then he has staged more than 250 shows internationally, many of them among the most influential exhibits of our age.

Ways of Curating is a compendium of the insights Obrist has gained from his years of extraordinary work in the art world. It skips between centuries and continents, flitting from meetings with the artists who have inspired him (including Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, and Gilbert and George) to biographies of influential figures such as Diaghilev and Walter Hopps. It describes some of the greatest exhibitions in history, as well as some of the greatest exhibitions never realized. It traces the evolution of collections from Athanasius Kircher's seventeenth-century Wunderkammer to modern museums, and points the way for projects yet to come.

Obrist has rescued the word curate from wine stores and playlists to remind us of the power inherent in looking at art--and at the world--in a new way.

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