Main entry:

Brennan, Marcia.

Title & Author:

Curating consciousness : mysticism and the modern museum / Marcia Brennan.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2010.

Description:

xi, 285 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernism's mystical subjects: an introduction -- The nude descending a flowchart: Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and Marcel Duchamp -- Seeing the one "less seen": James Johnson Sweeney, in light of Marcel Duchamp -- Blood miracles and fire magic: the transmutational arts of Alberto Burri -- Illuminating the void, displaying the vision: Pierre Soulages -- Studies in self-creation and creative destruction: Jean Tinguely -- "A spark of light darting through empty space": Eduardo Chillida.

Summary:

In 'Curating Consciousness', Marcia Brennan focuses on one of the transformational figures of 20th century curatorial culture, and the main protagonist of this (until now) unacknowledged curatorial practice.

Resources:
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ISBN:

9780262013789 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262013789 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Sweeney, James Johnson, 1900-1986.
Sweeney, James Johnson 1900-1986
Barr, Alfred H., Jr., 1902-1981.
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
Burri, Alberto, 1915-1995.
Soulages, Pierre, 1919-.
Tinguely, Jean, 1925-1991.
Chillida Juantegui, Eduardo, 1924-2002.
Sweeney, James Johnson.
Bornholms Kunstmuseum Gudhjem
Heimatmuseum der Gemeinde Gründau
Mysticism and art.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Art museums Exhibitions.
Mysticisme et art.
Modernisme (Esthétique)
20.12 art museums.
Art museums.
Ausstellung
Moderne
Kunstmuseum
Arts.
Mysticism.
Modernism (culture)

Form/genre:

Ausstellung Moderne.
Exhibition catalogs.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271296
Call No.: BIB 204287
Status: Available