The Keeper (NEW MUSEUM)

The Keeper (NEW MUSEUM)

The Keeper accompanies an exhibition dedicated to the act of preserving objects, artworks and images. Through a variety of imaginary museums, personal collections and unusual assemblages, it offers a reflection on the impulse to save both the most precious and the apparently valueless, and reveals the devotion with which artists, collectors, scholars and hoarders have created sanctuaries for endangered images and artifacts.
Through works spanning the 20th century, The Keeper tells the stories of various individuals through the objects they chose to safeguard. Some, such as Roger Cailloisâ€™ collection of rare stones and Harry Smithâ€™s string figures, pursue a universal syntax. Other collections were not so much kept as withheld, such as Hilma af Klintâ€™s suite of abstract paintings from 1906â€“15, which she kept hidden for decades after her death, venturing that her work would be better appreciated beyond her own time. Shinro Ohtakeâ€™s feverishly collaged scrapbooks burst with found materials as free associations of images and everyday ephemera. In a ceremonious personal custom, Ye Jinglu had a studio portrait of himself taken every year for decades. These photos, preserved by Tong Bingxue, represent collecting as a mode of auto-ethnography that inadvertently also traces social and political changes over time. The centerpiece of the book is a vast display conceived by Ydessa Hendeles, composed of over 3,000 family-album photographs of people posing with teddy bears, and vitrines containing antique teddy bears.
Country USA
Manufacturer New Museum
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2016-08-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780915557127

Country	USA
Manufacturer	New Museum
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2016-08-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780915557127

The Keeper (NEW MUSEUM)

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