Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium

by James Putnam

Book Overview

From Marcel Duchamp's "Portable Museum" (Bo te en valise) of the early 1940s to Damien Hirst's distinctive use of vitrine displays in the 1990s, the artists of the past seventy years have often turned their attention--both creatively and critically--to a reappraisal of the ideas and systems of classification traditionally associated with curatorship and display.

The works included here, accompanied by quotations from the writings of individual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0500288356
• ISBN13: 9780500288351
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Thames & Hudson
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 10.9"