Museums after Modernism: Strategies of Engagement (New Interventions in Art History)

Museums After Modernism is a unique collectionthat showcases the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art. The book features expert artists, curators and art historians who grapple with many of the vibrant issues in museum studies, while paying 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 art historians Engages with vital issues in the practice of art-making and art-exhibiting Edited by the world-renowned art historian and author, Griselda Pollock Museums After Modernism: Strategies of Engagement......Page 5 Contents......Page 9 List of Figures......Page 11 Notes on Contributors......Page 14 Series Editor’s Preface......Page 19 Preface......Page 21 1 Un-Framing the Modern: Critical Space/Public Possibility......Page 27 2 Women’s Rembrandt......Page 66 3 Museums and the Native Voice......Page 96 4 Exhibiting Africa after Modernism: Globalization, Pluralism, and the Persistent Paradigms of Art and Artifact......Page 106 5 Mirroring Evil, Evil Mirrored: Timing, Trauma, and Temporary Exhibitions......Page 130 6 A Place for Uncertainty: Towards a New Kind of Museum......Page 145 7 The Ballad of Kastriot Rexhepi: Notes on Gesture, Medium, and Mediation......Page 157 8 Riksutsta ̈llningar: Swedish Traveling Exhibitions......Page 167 9 Reframing Participation in the Museum: A Syncopated Discussion......Page 183 10 ‘‘There Is No Such Thing as a Visitor’’......Page 199 11 ‘‘Anxious Dust’’: History and Repression in the Archives of Mary Kelly......Page 204 12 On Discourse as Monument: Institutional Spaces and Feminist Problematics......Page 216 Bibliography......Page 251 Index......Page 261 "Museums After Modernism is a diverse set of essays that addresses the urgent question of how the museum can be a public institution, a focus for critical debate and knowledge in an era when museums and galleries are increasingly being subsumed into national heritage and civic tourist industries through blockbusters and managed education programs. The book uniquely brings together artists, curators, art historians, and users to explore the strategies for non-canonical and creative fostering of the museum as a public space for dialogue and transformation in the postcolonial era. Combining theoretical reflections on the histories of the museum with recent case studies, "Museums After Modernism" goes beyond current museology and reconsiders the strategies of engagement with what the museum could be after modernism."--Book cover Showcases the ways questions about the museum go to the heart of contemporary debates about the production, consumption and distribution of art. This book features expert artists, curators and art historians who grapple with many of the issues in museum studies, while paying homage to a different museology that needs to be considered