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Collections usually reflect the personal nature of collecting, sometimes indicating the intellectual interests and curiosity of their owners and in many cases their particular tastes and passions. Through the relationship between the collection and its space, whether physical or theoretical, the collection takes on more nuanced meanings than solely ambition and reputation, reflecting the varied meanings the collection had for its owner and increasingly for a wider public. This new book is part of the Collecting Histories series and investigates an understudied field of research in the history of collecting.…
Collections reflect the passions of their owners, but how did people get to see them? This book investigates an understudied field: “access” to collections before public museums. The essays show there were diverse types of access that served a range of purposes.
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Undoing the Visual Arts Since 1960
Letters to an Art Lover on Contemporary Art
This timely study critically assesses each of the various presuppositions that led to how we got to where we are today. Contemporary art has replaced the notion of artistic medium with a semiotic model of communication, treating art as text open in its ‘reading’. The dumping of the notion of artistic medium cancels aesthetic depth and undermines even relative expressive determinacy. Marcel Duchamp privileged the play of mind over the ‘simply visual’. Minimalism and Pop Art set their faces against the place of personalised life-experience and expressive formation in art-making.…
This timely study assesses how contemporary art replaced the artistic medium with art as text. The rise of the institutional theory of art, its academisation, and an ideological agenda made contemporary art immune from criticism—completing the undoing of visual art.
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This book offers a wide-ranging review of art throughout the ages to isolate the original source of religions and religious practices within the symbiotic relationship between art production and universal ritual procedures. A psychoanalytic perspective identifies the creative process as the common factor and integral structure of not only the formation of the art object, but also ritual enactments and performance and, furthermore, religious doctrine and ceremony. The ritual creative process is unearthed as the unique prototype for the fundamental concept of death and resurrection that underpins religious belief. The…
This book reviews art throughout the ages to find the origin of religion in the relationship between art and ritual. A psychoanalytic perspective identifies the creative process as the prototype for the concept of death and resurrection that underpins religious belief.
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