Curatorial activism : towards an ethics of curating
Record details
- ISBN: 0500239703
- ISBN: 9780500239704
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Physical Description:
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240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. - Publisher: [London] : Thames & Hudson, 2018.
- Copyright: ©2018.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "With 107 illustrations." "Curatorial Activism is a manifesto for change in the art world. Resist masculinism and sexism. Confront white privilege and Western-centrism. Challenge heterocentrism and lesbo-homophobia"--Back cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-235) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword / Lucy R. Lippard -- Preface -- What is curatorial activism? -- Resisting masculinism and sexism -- Tackling white privilege and Western-centrism -- Challenging heterocentrism and lesbo-homophobia -- A call to arms: Strategies for change. |
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Subject: | Art and society Art museums -- Curatorship Art -- Exhibitions -- Philosophy Art -- Exhibitions -- Social aspects Art museum curators |
Available copies
- 1 of 2 copies available at Emily Carr University of Art + Design.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Circulation Modifier | Holdable? | Status | Due Date | Courses |
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Emily Carr University of Art + Design | N72 .S6 R44 2018 (Text) | 30240368 | Book | Not holdable | Missing | - | ||
Emily Carr University of Art + Design | N72 .S6 R44 2018 (Text) | 30243592 | Reserve Books | 7-day-loan | Not holdable | Available | - |
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This work presents a manifesto for curatorial activism and describes large-scale exhibitions at major museums that challenged sexism, heterocentrism, and white privilege. The book first gives a definition of curatorial activism and charts the roles of artist advocates who have pointed out the dearth of art by non-white and female artists found at galleries and museums. The book then examines group exhibitions that embody various strategies for curatorial activism, from the 1976-77 exhibition Women Artists: 1550-1950, to the 2015-2017 exhibition Art AIDS America. Coverage of each exhibition includes a selection of key images, an overview of the showâs theme and curatorial aim, and a summary of its critical reception. The book contains color photos and art on every page. Annotation ©2018 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com) - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2018 April #2
This call to action by Reilly, an arts writer and executive director at New York's National Academy of Design, is aimed at art-world insiders. The title celebrates museum exhibitions by "curatorial activists" who target "sexism, racism, homo-/lesbo-phobia and Western-centrism" in museum practice. The author analyzes activist exhibitions from the 1970s to present, evaluating their ideas, critical reception, and impact, and hailing them as necessary correctives to what she describes as the mainstream art world's "rigged system, dominated by straight white men." Charting a shifting role for curators, this title reveals arts professionals as becoming brokers of a sort, mediating the interests of artists, arts institutions, social activists, and museumgoers. At best, the institutional critiques articulated here will move art museums away from longstanding bias, toward exhibiting artists previously excluded. Readers, however, may wonder where the audience itself figures hereâtoo often the text seems a conversation conducted over the heads of the public, with little concern to address skeptical or perplexed museumgoers about the value of ethical curation.
Copyright 2018 Library Journal.VERDICT At its most convincing, when citing statistics proving how seldom museums display art by overlooked and marginalized groups, this book will surely energize those already in agreement, but may not speak to readers less engaged.âMichael Dashkin, New York