Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating

Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating

It has become almost obligatory to introduce a book on curating by noting the plethora of recent publications on the subject. How, in just a few short years, did we reach this point of saturation? What questions, exactly, do all these books address? Many attempt to offer an overview of the curatorial field as it exists today, or attempt to map its historical trajectory. Others propose a series of case studies under a common curatorial theme. All are hoping to contribute to this relatively new discipline and its accompanying canon. Edited by Jens Hoffmann, Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating offers a real critique of existing publications and modes of thinking by explicitly asking the questions that others have missed, ignored or deemed already answered: What is a curator? What is the public? What is art? What about collecting? What is an exhibition? Why mediate art? What to do with the contemporary? What about responsibility? What is the process? How about pleasure? Here, Peter Eleey, Elena Filipovic, Juan A. GaitÃ¡n, SofÃa HernÃ¡ndez Chong Cuy, Maria Lind, Chus MartÃnez, Jessica Morgan, Adriano Pedrosa, JoÃ£o Ribas and Dieter Roelstraete each propose and then address one question. Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating takes a back-to-basics approach--a return to a kind of zero-degree state--at a time when a recalibration of what a curator is and does seems both necessary and urgent.
Country USA
Brand Hoffmann, Jens (EDT)
Manufacturer Mousse Publishing
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2013-10-31
UnitCount 1
EANs 9788867490530

Country	USA
Brand	Hoffmann, Jens (EDT)
Manufacturer	Mousse Publishing
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2013-10-31
UnitCount	1
EANs	9788867490530

Ten Fundamental Questions of Curating

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