Title & Author:

Art and its institutions : current conflicts, critique and collaborations / edited by Nina Möntmann.

Publication:

London : Black Dog Pub., 2006.

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
The utopian institution? / Cecilia Gelin -- Art and its institutions / Nina Montmann -- The changing normative foundations of Nordic welfare state institutions / Nanna Kildal -- Curating with institutional visions / a roundtable talk with: Roger M. Buergel, Anselm Franke, Maria Linda, Nina Montmann -- Spaces of conflict / Mike Bode and Staffan Schmidt -- "A museum is not a business, It is run in a businesslike fashion" / Andrea Fraser -- Opacity: current considerations on art institutions and the economy of desire / Nina Montmann -- Institutional desires / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- Game within the game: institution, institutionalisation and art education / Beatrice Von Bismarck -- This is not an exhibition. On the practical ties and symbolic differences between the agency of the art institution and the work of those on its outside / Jan Verwoert -- The trouble with institutions, or, art and its publics / Simon Sheikh -- Friends of the divided mind / an email conversation between Marita Muukkonen and Chris Evans -- There is no alternative: the future is self-organised. Part 1. / Anthony Davies, Stephan Dillemuth, Jakob Jakobsen -- Collective interest / 16 Beaver group in conversation with Tone Hansen and Trude Iversen.

Summary:

A survey of art's complex and troubled relationship with institutions, this is a useful introduction to those involved with art appreciation, collecting, curation, the art market, art practice, as well as students and practitioners of art history, theory and politics.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

1904772501 (paperback)
9781904772507 (paperback)

Subject:

Art and society.
Art Miscellanea.
Art et société.
Art Miscellanées.
Art
Konstkritik.
Konstpolitik.
Konst och samhälle.

Form/genre:

miscellanies.
Trivia and miscellanea
Miscellanées.

Added entries:

Möntmann, Nina, 1969-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 245767
Call No.: BIB 175387
Status: Available