Title & Author:

Obsession, compulsion, collection : on objects, display culture and interpretation / edited by Anthony Kiendl.

Publication:

Banff, Alta. : Banff Centre Press, c2004.

Description:

384 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm.

Notes:
"Published in association with the Banff International Curatorial Institute and the Walter Phillips Gallery"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes bibliographical references.
Toward a new understanding of collecting / Anthony Kiendl -- Conspicuous consumption / Melanie Townsend -- Sentimental value -- Rocky Mountain photo-lyrical hindsight / Jeanne Randolph -- He Maimai Aroha: a disgusting traffic for collectors: the colonial trade in preserved human heads in Aotearoa, New Zealand / Ngahuia Te Awekotuku -- From wall to web: displaying art stolen from Jews by Hitlers / Reesa Greenberg -- Art collection / Chris Kraus -- Museum of Jurassic technology / David Wilson -- Negative space: abattoirs by artists and the representation of trauma / Sigrid Dahle -- Sun and moon blues / James Luna -- I'm only in it for the money, girls, and fancy cars: an interview with James Luna / Amber-Dawn Bear Robe -- Curating Derry: monuments in the present tense / Aoife Mac Namara -- Getting unpinned: collecting aboriginal art and the potential for hybrid public discourse in art museums / Richard William Hill
Heads above grass / Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds -- The evasive text / Jamelie Hassan -- The U'mista cultural centre / Gloria Cramner Webster -- Rethinking art philanthropy and the problem of conflict of interest / Susan Cahan -- Ephemeral curating / Jens Hoffman -- The ephemeral collection: public repositories or sites for creative endeavour / Joan Borsa -- Volume=value: museum expansions and the promise of more / Donna McAlear -- Interrogating the archive: interstitial digital aesthetics / Sheila Petty -- You can find me here: geographical relevant database art online / Sarah Cook -- Managed danger, managed pleasure: impulse and improvisation / Sara Diamond -- Collectors' favourites / Jennifer Bornstein -- Sunday installation artist profile no. 2: Hannie's anti-ad public-address installation / Donald Goodes -- Doodles -- Contributor biographies.

Summary:

"This book is a compilation of essays by leading Canadian and international curators and artists that explores the role of the art object in a broader context of visual and display culture. The book analyzes the human impulse to collect and the social context, rhetoric, politics, and science associated with cultural collections." -- BACK COVER.

ISBN:

1894773055
9781894773058

Subject:

Collectors and collecting.
Collectors and collecting Social aspects.
Art museums Collection management.
Collections.
Collections Aspect social.
Art Musées Gestion des collections.
Musées d'art Gestion des collections.

Added entries:

Kiendl, Anthony, 1968-
Banff Centre for the Arts.
Walter Phillips Gallery.
Banff International Curatorial Institute.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249970
Call No.: BIB 179507
Status: Available