Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium
James Putnam
Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium Putnam, James - 2nd Revised edition - United Kingdom Thames & Hudson Ltd 07/09/2009 - 216 Paperback
Museology & heritage studies
From cabinets of curiosities to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museum display, archiving, classification, storage, curatorship which they have then appropriated, mimicked and reinterpreted in their own work. Citing a huge range of examples, James Putnam shows not only the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made their works into simulations of the museum, but also how they have questioned the role of museums, observed their practices, intervened in them and helped to redefine them.
General (US: Trade)
http://www.jamesputnam.org.uk/biography.html
9780500288351
Museology & heritage studies
Artists and museums
Installations (Art)
Museums - Philosophy
Art, Modern - 21st century
Art, Modern - 20th century
709.04/PUT
Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium Putnam, James - 2nd Revised edition - United Kingdom Thames & Hudson Ltd 07/09/2009 - 216 Paperback
Museology & heritage studies
From cabinets of curiosities to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museum display, archiving, classification, storage, curatorship which they have then appropriated, mimicked and reinterpreted in their own work. Citing a huge range of examples, James Putnam shows not only the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made their works into simulations of the museum, but also how they have questioned the role of museums, observed their practices, intervened in them and helped to redefine them.
General (US: Trade)
http://www.jamesputnam.org.uk/biography.html
9780500288351
Museology & heritage studies
Artists and museums
Installations (Art)
Museums - Philosophy
Art, Modern - 21st century
Art, Modern - 20th century
709.04/PUT