Hans Ulrich Obrist: A Brief History of Curating (Paperback)

Part of JRP]Ringer's innovative "Documents" series, published with Les Presses du Reel and dedicated to critical writings, this publication comprises a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist mapping the development of the curatorial field--from early independent curators in the 1960s and 70s and the experimental institutional programs developed in Europe and the U.S. through the inception of Documenta and the various biennales and fairs--with pioneering curators Anne D'Harnoncourt, Werner Hoffman, Jean Leering, Franz Meyer, Seth Siegelaub, Walter Zanini, Johannes Cladders, Lucy Lippard, Walter Hopps, Pontus Hulten and Harald Szeemann. Speaking of Szeemann on the occasion of this legendary curator's death in 2005, critic Aaron Schuster summed up, "the image we have of the curator today: the curator-as-artist, a roaming, freelance designer of exhibitions, or in his own witty formulation, a 'spiritual guest worker'... If artists since Marcel Duchamp have affirmed selection and arrangement as legitimate artistic strategies, was it not simply a matter of time before curatorial practice--itself defined by selection and arrangement--would come to be seen as an art that operates on the field of art itself?"

General

Imprint:	Jrp/Ringier
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	October 2008
First published:	May 2009
Text writers:	Daniel Birnbaum • Christophe Cherix • Hans Ulrich Obrist
Editors:	Lionel Bovier • Hans Ulrich Obrist
Dimensions:	210 x 150 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	243
ISBN-13:	978-3-905829-55-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > The arts: general issues > Theory of art Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history Promotions
LSN:	3-905829-55-X
Barcode:	9783905829556

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