Curating Consciousness: Mysticism and the Modern Museum

by Marcia Brennan

Book Overview

How prominent curator and author James Johnson Sweeney cast the modern museum as a secular temple of art.

Artists have often taken rational, material existence as a starting point for engagement with metaphysics and mysticism, but no book until now has traced a similar strategy on the part of curators. In Curating Consciousness, Marcia Brennan focuses on one of the transformational figures of twentieth-century curatorial culture,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262013789
• ISBN13: 9780262013789
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 285 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher