Collecting the new : museums and contemporary art /
edited by Bruce Altshuler.
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, (c)2005.
- 1 online resource (202 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Collecting the New: A Historical Introduction; The Right to Be Wrong; To Have and to Hold; 9 Minutes 45 Seconds; Breaking Down Categories: Print Rooms, Drawing Departments, and the Museum; Keeping Time: On Collecting Film and Video Art in the Museum; Collecting New-Media Art: Just Like Anything Else, Only Different; Beyond the "Authentic-Exotic": Collecting Contemporary Asian Art in the Twenty-first Century; The Unconscious Museum: Collecting Contemporary African Art without Knowing It; The Accidental Tourist: American Collections of Latin American Art. Collecting the Art of African-Americans at the Studio Museum in Harlem: Positioning the "New" from the Perspective of the PastThe Challenges of Conserving Contemporary Art; Acknowledgments; Index; Photography Credits.
Collecting the New is the first book on the questions and challenges that museums face in acquiring and preserving contemporary art. Because such art has not yet withstood the test of time, it defies the traditional understanding of the art museum as an institution that collects and displays works of long-established aesthetic and historical value. By acquiring such art, museums gamble on the future. In addition, new technologies and alternative conceptions of the artwork have created special problems of conservation, while social, political, and aesthetic changes have generated new.
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Art, Modern--Collectors and collecting--United States--20th century Art, Modern--Collectors and collecting--United States--21st century Art museums--Collection management--United States.