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Curationism - David Balzer

Curationism

How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else

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Buch | Softcover
144 Seiten
2015
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-3597-1 (ISBN)
CHF 19,90 inkl. MwSt
A criticism of the saturation of the 'curator' in art, business and everyday life
*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015*



Now that we 'curate' even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in contemporary culture?



'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art world, the curator reigns supreme, acting as the face of high-profile group shows in a way that can eclipse the contributions of individual artists. At the same time, curatorial-studies programs continue to grow, and businesses are adopting curation as a means of adding value to content. Everyone, it seems, is now a curator.



But what is a curator, exactly? And what does the explosive popularity of curating say about our culture's relationship with taste, labour and the avant-garde? In this vibrant book, David Balzer travels through art history to explore the cult of curation, where it began, how it came to dominate museums and galleries, and how it emerged at the turn of the millennium as a dominant mode of thinking and being.



Recalling such landmark works of cultural criticism as Tom Wolfe's The Painted Word and John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Balzer asks whether curationism has finally reached its own limits, where its widespread success has paradoxically led to its own demise.

David Balzer is a writer, lawyer, editor, and educator. He is the author of Contrivances (2012) and Curationism: How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else (2014). His critical writing has appeared in the Globe and Mail, the Guardian, Artforum, and Frieze. He lives in Canada.

Introduction

Prologue: Who is HUO?

Part I: Value

Part II: Work

Acknowledgements

About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag 10.4.2015
Zusatzinfo With flaps
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 129 x 198 mm
Gewicht 162 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
ISBN-10 0-7453-3597-7 / 0745335977
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-3597-1 / 9780745335971
Zustand Neuware
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