Sunday, April 3, 2011

Art and Artifact: The Museum As Medium



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From the early instances of the urge to collect objects, the "cabinet of curiosities", to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention, both creatively and critically, to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museum: display, archiving, classification, storage, curatorship. They have then appropriated, mimicked and reinterpreted these in their own work. Citing a range of examples, James Putna... More >>

Art and Artifact: The Museum As Medium

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