The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect - Hardcover
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.
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- PublisherMuseum of Modern Art
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 087070091X
- ISBN 13 9780870700910
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- Number of pages296
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 296 pages, colour & b/w ill., 28 × 23 cm, English The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect is the stunning catalog that accompanies an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art during the spring of 1999. The show takes an insightful look at the way different artists deal with the ideas, concepts, and criticisms of "the public museum." The collected artists span both generations and degrees of fame, from French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson to pop artist Claes Oldenburg to contemporary artists Gillian Wearing and Mark Dion. The show, and by extension the book, illustrates the impact that the invention of the museum (just 200 years ago) has had on art making. It is fascinating to peer through the eyes of individual artists whose personal and intimate visions are both outside of the museum and inextricably linked to it by their choice of career. The artwork in the exhibition is wide-reaching and the reproductions for the book are beautiful. Hiroshi Sugimoto's black-and-white photo series of natural-history museum dioramas; a taxidermied polar bear and a seal on a bed of fake ice; and a re-creation of underwater sea life are all exquisite in their quiet and choreographed other-worldliness. This book should not be missed; it offers a great chance to look at art by artists who use their work to address the complexities of their own relationships with the massive institutions that are our museums. Enpapers designed by Daniel Buren. NEW (barely perceptible signs of shelfwear to dustjacket from long term warehouse storage). Seller Inventory # ABE-1649678714172
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