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Hidden Worlds
'True art is never found in the place one expects: it is found where no one takes notice or no one bothers to name it,' writes the artist Jean Dubuffet in 1949. The authors of this book are, just as Dubuffet was, looking for a different expression of art: 'art brut', 'raw art' or 'outsider art'. Art created outside the established order of art. The work of artists, who, in their own way, focus on a 'different' artistic approach. Exceptional is that they are outsiders. Some are mentally handicapped, others mentally disturbed. As outsider art is not an artistic trend, it is not bound by any artistic rules. The artists themselves are not professionals and have therefore had no schooling. Their ...
Museums in the Second World War
Peacetime: return to traditional collections concerns -- The past is intrinsic to museums -- The complexities of peacetime -- Appendix: primary sources -- References -- Index
Museums and Communities
This edited volume critically engages with contemporary scholarship on museums and their engagement with the communities they purport to serve and represent. Foregrounding new curatorial strategies, it addresses a significant gap in the available literature, exploring some of the complex issues arising from recent approaches to collaboration between museums and their communities. The book unpacks taken-for-granted notions such as scholarship, community, participation and collaboration, which can gloss over the complexity of identities and lead to tokenistic claims of inclusion by museums. Over sixteen chapters, well-respected authors from the US, Australia and Europe offer a timely critique ...
Museums After Modernism
Museums After Modernism is a unique collectionthat showcasesthe ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporarydebates about the production, consumption and distribution of art.The book features expert artists, curators and art historians whograpple with many of the vibrant issues in museum studies, whilepaying homage to a new museology that needs to be considered. Examines the key contemporary debates in museum studies Includes original essays by noted artists, curators, and arthistorians Engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making andart-exhibiting Edited by the world-renowned art historian and author, GriseldaPollock
History Curatorship
Kavanagh offers a framework for current and future museum action and argues the case for imaginative, relevant curatorship, responsive to the evidence of social change. She also argues for a more caring and cooperative relationship with the public and with museum visitors.
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Black Folk Art in America, 1930-1980
Forms from African and American popular arts, photojournalism, advertising, voodoo and the landscape reflect oral traditions of black culture: rural legends, popular history, Biblical stories, revivalism. No index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
