Cautionary Tales: Critical Curating

by Sara Arrhenius, David Carrier, Jean-Hubert Martin

Ten international art related professionals consider the increased influence of independent curators and cultural producers and how the role of the curator has changed over the last ten years. Using... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933347104
• ISBN13: 9781933347103
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: apexart
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Curation on the move

I bought this collection for the essay by Geeta Kapur, in conjunction with my work as curator of the forthcoming exhibition 'New Art from South Asia' scheduled to open at the Herbert, Coventry, in January 2009, to coincide with the opening of the new galleries. [...] Kapur's presence in this collection is essential; as her position highlights the narrowness of approaches anchored in Western experiences and references alone (the proverbial 'CENTRE') [see the anthology 'Men in Black']--as if the rest of the world (the so-called PERIPHERY) did not count--and invites us to redefine 'internationalism' and the 'contemporary' through a series of cutural decenterings... Her collection of essays 'When was Modernism' is a must for all those readers who aspire to open their perspectives on Art; i.e. on World Art, not just Art made according to Western neo-colonial values and preconceptions. When will Art History and Art Criticism have the maturity to write themselves from multiple centers? The default tag is to Jean-Hubert Martin I would suggest : Geeta Kapur...