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Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating - Rethinking Art Practice and Objecthood through Scientific Collections (Paperback)
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Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating - Rethinking Art Practice and Objecthood through Scientific Collections (Paperback)
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This edited collection explores a subject of great potential for
both art historians and museologists - that of the nature of the
specimen and how it might be reinterpreted. Through its
cross-disciplinary contributions, written by a team of art
historians, artists, poets, anthropologists, critics and curators,
this book looks at how artistic encounters in museums, ranging from
anatomy museums to contemporary cabinets of curiosity, can provoke
new modes of thinking about art, science and curating. Museological
literature in the past focused on artefacts or objects; this is an
original contribution to the field and offers new readings of old
issues, inspiring new understandings of the relationships between
art, science and curating. Brings together international expertise
from art practitioners, historians, creative writers and theorists
in France, the United States, United Kingdom and New Zealand.
Contributions from creative practitioners draw upon their own
experience of producing artworks in response to specific scientific
collections while historians, anthropologists, critics and writers
examine how museums stimulate, incite and otherwise inspire
artistic awareness of science and its specimens. One of the most
important contributions this book will make is drawing together
several threads of research and practice to encourage
interdisciplinary discussion. It provides new ways of thinking
about the relationships between art, science, museums and their
objects. It concentrates on the ways in which scientific
collections kindle novel aesthetic strategies and inspire new
scholarly interpretations of art, science, curating and
epistemology. In so doing it will make a considerable contribution
to the fields of art writing, creative practice, art theory, the
history of science and curating. This book will appeal to
academics, researchers, undergraduates and postgraduates studying
fine art, curating, museology, art history, the history of science,
creative writing; visual artists, curators, and other creative
practitioners. Also of interest to museum audiences. Reading list
potential.
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