The definitive reference text on curation both inside and outside the museum A Companion to Curation is the first collection of its kind, assembling the...
PublishedChicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010
The image of a tortured genius working in near isolation has long dominated our conceptions of the artist's studio. Examples abound: think Jackson Pollock...
The best-selling guide to writing about art Sylvan Barnet's A Short Guide to Writing About Art guides students through every aspect of writing about art...
Transdisciplinary approaches to the notions of "the contemporary" and "contemporaneity" Futures of the Contemporary explores different notions and manifestations...
Methods and Approaches. 19 halftones What does it mean to approach disability-focused cultural production and consumption as generative sites of meaning...
The Arts and the Brain: Psychology and Physiology beyond Pleasure, Volume 237, combines the work of an excellent group of experts who explain evidence...
This publication examines cultural, philosophical and political issues tied to specific instances of collaborative practice in the performing arts. Scholars...
What is art? Why do we find some things beautiful but not others? Is it wrong to share MP3s? These are just some of the questions explored by aesthetics...
The interfaces between art and the scientific disciplines of biology, environmental science, neuroscience, and physics pose interdisciplinary questions...
In Art to Come Terry Smith-who is widely recognized as one of the world's leading historians and theorists of contemporary art-traces the emergence of...