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Sculpture and the Vitrine (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Sculpture and the Vitrine (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture
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Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in
large part defined modern modes of display and visibility, both
within and beyond the museum. They separate objects from their
contexts, group them with other objects, both similar and
dissimilar, and often serve to reinforce their intrinsic or
aesthetic values. The vitrine has much in common with the picture
frame, the plinth and the gallery, but it has not yet received the
kind of detailed art historical and theoretical discussion that has
been brought to these other modes of formal display. The twelve
contributions to this volume examine some of the points of origin
of the vitrine and the various relations it brokers with sculpture,
first in the Wunderkammer and cabinet of curiosities and then in
dialog with the development of glazed architecture beginning with
Paxton's Crystal Palace (1851). The collection offers close
discussions of the role of the vitrine and shop window in the rise
of commodity culture and their apposition with Constructivist
design in the work of Frederick Kiesler; as well as original
readings of the use of vitrines in Surrealism and Fluxus, and in
work by Joseph Beuys, Paul Thek, Claes Oldenburg and his
collaborators, Jeff Koons, Mike Kelley, Dan Graham, Vito Acconci,
Damien Hirst and Josephine Meckseper, among others. Sculpture and
the Vitrine also raises key questions about the nature and
implications of vitrinous space, including its fronts onto desire
and the spectacle; transparency and legibility; and onto ideas and
practices associated with the archive: collecting, preserving and
ordering.
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