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Curationism - How Curating Took Over the Art World and Everything Else (Paperback)
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*Winner of the ICA Book of the Year, 2015* Now that we 'curate'
even lunch, what happens to the role of the connoisseur in
contemporary culture? 'Curate' has become a buzzword, applied to
everything from music festivals to artisanal cheese. Inside the art
world, the curator reigns supreme, acting as the face of
high-profile group shows in a way that can eclipse the
contributions of individual artists. At the same time,
curatorial-studies programs continue to grow, and businesses are
adopting curation as a means of adding value to content. Everyone,
it seems, is now a curator. But what is a curator, exactly? And
what does the explosive popularity of curating say about our
culture's relationship with taste, labour and the avant-garde? In
this vibrant book, David Balzer travels through art history to
explore the cult of curation, where it began, how it came to
dominate museums and galleries, and how it emerged at the turn of
the millennium as a dominant mode of thinking and being. Recalling
such landmark works of cultural criticism as Tom Wolfe's The
Painted Word and John Berger's Ways of Seeing, Balzer asks whether
curationism has finally reached its own limits, where its
widespread success has paradoxically led to its own demise.
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