The Museological Unconscious

Author : Victor Tupitsyn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262201739
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Museological Unconscious written by Victor Tupitsyn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of contemporary art in Russia, from socialist realism to the post-Soviet alternative art scene. In The Museological Unconscious, Victor Tupitsyn views the history of Russian contemporary art through a distinctly Russian lens, a "communal optic" that registers the influence of such characteristically Russian phenomena as communal living, communal perception, and communal speech practices. This way of looking at the subject allows him to gather together a range of artists and art movements--from socialist realism to its "dangerous supplement," sots art, and from alternative photography to feminism--as if they were tenants in a large Moscow apartment. Describing the notion of "communal optics," Tupitsyn argues that socialist realism does not work without communal perception--which, as he notes, does not easily fit into crates when paintings travel out of Russia for exhibition in Kassel or New York. Russian artists, critics, and art historians, having lived for decades in a society that ignored or suppressed avant-garde art, have compensated, Tupitsyn claims, by developing a "museological unconscious"--the "museification" of the inner world and the collective psyche.

Author : Khunhae Kim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 69 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Museum of the Unconscious written by Khunhae Kim and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 69 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nikki Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351120166
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queering the Museum written by Nikki Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queering the Museum develops a queer analysis of the ways in which museums construct themselves, their core business, and their publics through the, often unconscious, use of inherited ways of knowing and doing. Providing a critique of both the practices and conventions associated with the modern public museum, and the ontological assumptions that inform them, the authors consider recent discourse around inclusion in museums and explore the ways this has been taken up in practice. Highlighting the limits of particular approaches to inclusion, and the failure to move away from a traditional museological paradigm, the book outlines an alternative critical museological approach that the authors refer to as ‘queer’. Providing readers with the critical tools necessary for a profound rethinking of museum practice, the book also responds to and problematises the growing call for social inclusion. Queering the Museum will appeal to academics, students, and museum and arts sector practitioners with an interest in critical theory or queer practice. It will be of particular interest to those working in the fields of museum studies, sociology, archaeology, anthropology, cultural studies, media, social policy, politics, philosophy, and history.

Author : Lola Kantor-Kazovsky
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449815X
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinventing Jewish Art in the Age of Multiple Modernities written by Lola Kantor-Kazovsky and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can studying an artist’s migration provide the key to unlocking a “global” history of art? The artistic biography of Michail Grobman and his group, which was active in Israel in the 1970s, open up this vital new perspective and analytical mode.

Author : Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1838608125
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Central Asia in Art written by Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the space race and nuclear age, Soviet Realist artists were producing figurative oil paintings. Why? How was art produced to control and co-opt the peripheries of the Soviet Union, particularly Central Asia? Presenting the 'untold story' of Soviet Orientalism, Aliya Abykayeva-Tiesenhausen re-evaluates the imperial project of the Soviet state, placing the Orientalist undercurrent found within art and propaganda production in the USSR alongside the creation of new art forms in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. From the turmoil of the 1930s through to the post-Stalinist era, the author draws on meticulous new research and rich illustrations to examine the political and social structures in the Soviet Union - and particularly Soviet Central Asia - to establish vital connections between Socialist Realist visual art, the creation of Soviet identity and later nationalist sentiments.

Author : Emese Kürti
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839458234
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Will Be Already Exists written by Emese Kürti and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do artist archives survive and stay authentic in radically changed contexts? The volume addresses the challenge of continuity, sustainability, and institutionalization of archives established by Eastern European artists. At its center stands the 40th anniversary of the Artpool Art Research Center founded in 1979 in Budapest as an underground institution based on György Galántai's »Active Archive« concept. Ten internationally renowned scholars propose contemporary interpretations of this concept and frame artist archives not as mere sources of art history but as models of self-historicization. The contributions give knowledgeable insights into the transition of Cold War art networks and institutional landscapes.

Author : Mary A. Nicholas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350227870
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moscow Conceptualism, 1975-1985 written by Mary A. Nicholas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the last generation of underground artists in the Soviet Union and the first on the post-Soviet scene, Moscow conceptualists provide a unique point of view on the breakup of the USSR, the changing role of unofficial art in a repressive state, and the beginning of a new world order in both art and politics. Offering a counter-narrative to the tradition of Socialist Realism that dominates Soviet art history, this book provides insight into the production and activism of the experimental artists that worked in Moscow during this watershed moment in Russian history. Based on extensive original research and in-depth interviews with the original artists, Nicholas demonstrates how the work of these radical, unconventional artists challenged the Soviet authorities, official doctrine, and even other colleagues in the nonconformist art world. They rebelled against political and artistic restraints alike, turning everyday texts and engaged performances into powerful statements of creative independence and unrestrained imagination. Unlike many of their fellow dissenters, these artists rejected elitist notions about art for art's sake in favor of a more open, democratic, and on-going dialogue about everyday concerns. Their embrace of humor, their focus on the real meaning of words, and their insistence on the importance of broad participation in the creation of art make these artists important models for the challenges of our own time. A crucial link between the revolutionary avant-garde and contemporary protest art, Moscow conceptualism offers lessons for activists under pressure from authoritarian regimes around the world. By highlighting the importance of laughter, imaginative outreach, and direct engagement with everyday citizens, this book presents fascinating evidence of the importance of individual protest and demonstrates that socially-engaged art can be a powerful weapon for change in building a better world.

Author : Alexandar Mihailovic
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299314901
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mitki and the Art of Postmodern Protest in Russia written by Alexandar Mihailovic and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the work of a playful, emphatically countercultural collective whose satirical poetry and prose, pop music, cinema, and conceptual performance in post-Soviet Russia has influenced other protest artists, such as Pussy Riot.

Author : Gail Feigenbaum
Publisher : Getty Publications
ISBN 13 : 1606066501
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Getty Research Journal written by Gail Feigenbaum and published by Getty Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Getty Research Journal features the work of art historians, museum curators, and conservators around the world as part of the Getty’s mission to promote the presentation, conservation, and interpretation of the world’s artistic legacy. Articles present original scholarship related to the Getty’s collections, initiatives, and research. This issue features essays on works by Bolognese painter Guido Reni and his studio; a collection of late nineteenth-century images by one of Iran’s most prolific photographers, Antoin Sevruguin; Le Corbusier’s encounters with and monumentalization of the konak, a type of Ottoman house; the correspondence between René Magritte and his wife while he stayed at the London home of patron and collector Edward James; the activities of Belgian surrealist Édouard Léon Théodore Mesens as art dealer and collector; and art historian and critic Leo Steinberg’s unpublished research on Titian. Shorter texts include notices on three joining fragments of an Urartian bronze belt; a sketchbook newly attributed to Florentine architect, engineer, and set designer Giulio Parigi; photo albums documenting the plague pandemic in late nineteenth-century Bombay; four scrapbooks produced by Neue Sachlichkeit photographer Albert Renger-Patzsch; and the correspondence between Swiss curator Harald Szeemann and Russian artist Lev Nusberg.

Author : Suzanne Keene
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136402357
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments of the World: Uses of Museum Collections written by Suzanne Keene and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-11 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventional exhibitions can only ever utilise a tiny proportion of them, what other uses of the collections are possible? Will their exploitation and use now destroy their value for future generations? Should they simply be kept safely and as economically as possible as a resource for the future? Fragments of the World examines these questions, first reviewing the history of collecting and of collections, then discussing the ways in which the collections themselves are being used today. Case studies of leading examples from around the world illustrate the discussion. Bringing together the thinking about museum collections with case studies of the ways in which different types of collection are used, the book provides a roadmap for museums to make better use of this wonderful resource.