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When Artists Curate: Contemporary Art and the Exhibition as Medium

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AuthorAlison Green
ISBN9781780239330
Published LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
PublisherReaktion Books
BindingPaperback
Original Price£17.95
Pages296
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An increasing proportion of exhibitions are curated by artists rather than professional curators. In this ground-breaking book Alison Green provides the first critical history of visual artists curating exhibitions. The artist emerges as someone who carries a special responsibility for critiquing art?s institutions, brings considerable creativity to the craft of making exhibitions and, through experimentation, has changed the way exhibitions are understood to be authored and experienced. But this book also establishes a curious ubiquity to the artist-curated exhibition. Rather than being exceptional or rare, artists curate all the time and in all kinds of places: in galleries and in museums, in studios, in borrowed spaces such as shopfronts or industrial buildings, in front rooms and front windows, in zoos or concert halls, on streets and in nature. Seen from the perspective of artists, showing is a part of making art. Once this idea is understood, the history of art starts to look very different.

With extensive explorations of well-known artists such as Daniel Buren, Goshka Macuga, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rosemarie Trockel, Hito Steyerl, Andy Warhol and F?lix Gonz?lez-Torres, this book will change the way readers think about and look at exhibitions.

About the author
Alison Green is an art historian, critic and curator and Course Leader of ma Culture, Criticism and Curation at Central Saint Martins, London.

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