The Museum As Muse: Artists Reflect - Hardcover

McShine, Kynaston

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0810961970 ISBN 13: 9780810961975

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art, 1999

Synopsis

Published to accompany an exhibition opened at the Museum of Modern Art in March 1999, this volume contains the thoughts of artists of many persuasions on museums, their functions and spaces, their practices and politics, and their relationship to the art they contain. More than 60 artists are presented in a wide diversity of works: photographs of museum patrons by Henri-Cartier Bresson, Elliot Erwitt and Thomas Struth; "personal museums" and "cabinets of curiosities" by Charles Willson Peale, Marcel Duchamp, Claes Oldenburg and Mark Dion; fantasies of the destruction or transformation of the museums by Hubert Robert, Edward Ruscha and Christo; and more - photographs, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, videos and installations - some created by contemporary artists especially for the exhibition. The international selection of work includes a number of apt but little-known manifestos, as well as more celebrated works in context. The book also contains an anthology of statements and writings by artists about museums.

About this edition

• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0810961970
• ISBN 13: 9780810961975
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296