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Public Art - Thinking Museums Differently (Hardcover)
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Public Art - Thinking Museums Differently (Hardcover)
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Public Art acknowledges the trend among contemporary museums to
promote participatory and processual exhibition strategies meant to
elicit subjective experience. At the same time it valorizes the
object-oriented tradition that has long differentiated museums from
other institutions similarly committed to public service and the
perpetuation of cultural values. To blend and expand these aims,
Hein draws upon a movement toward ephemerality and impermanence in
public art. She proposes a new dynamic for the museum that is
temporal and pluralistic, while retaining a grounding in material
things. The museum is an agent, not a repository; and like public
art, it interacts constructively with passing and transitory
publics. As an actor with social clout, the museum has moral impact
and responsibilities beyond those of the individuals that comprise
its collective identity. The book should be read by museum workers
and students, by arts and foundation administrators, critics,
educators, aestheticians, institutional historians and theorists,
and by anyone interested in the transmission of cultural concepts
and values.
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