Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception: Reconsidering Inclusion, Transparency...

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Stéphanie Bertrand (School of Architecture at Aristotle University, Greece)

Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception

Reconsidering Inclusion, Transparency and Mediation in Exhibition Making Practice

Stéphanie Bertrand (School of Architecture at Aristotle University, Greece)

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Routledge
31 May 2023

Theory of art; Art & design styles: from c 1960; Museums & museology

Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions

Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-making practices in Europe, the UK and North America.

Drawing on curatorial literature and two in-depth case studies of group exhibitions, Bertrand advocates for a mode of curatorial practice that secures the content of artworks, in contrast to prevailing open-ended, indeterminate approaches. Proposing a third exhibition type beyond the current binary exhibition ontology that opposes art historical narratives to curatorial installations or Gesamtkunstwerk, the book directly tackles the enduring critique of curating as a mediating activity that produces sameness in group-exhibition contexts by establishing artistic equivalences. The book relies on the principles of analytical philosophy to assess how different exhibition-making approaches fix reference and determine artistic reception, reintroducing a standard to evaluate exhibitions beyond personal taste and thematic coherence. Bertrand ultimately proposes an alternative conception of practice that affirms the renewed relevance of the institutional group show in the present context.

Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception will be of interest to academics, researchers and students working in museum and curatorial studies, visual cultures, art theory and art history programmes. Art theorists and critics, as well as curators of contemporary art with a research-based practice, should also find much to interest them within the pages of the book.

By: Stéphanie Bertrand (School of Architecture at Aristotle University Greece)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9780367536367
ISBN 10: 0367536366
Series: Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions
Pages: 172
Publication Date: 31 May 2023
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Stéphanie Bertrand is a Canadian curator and researcher based in Greece. She holds a PhD in Museology from the School of Architecture at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki and an MFA Curating from Goldsmiths College, London. She is the recipient of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship, Onassis Foreigner’s Fellowship, and Hannah Arendt Prize in Critical Theory & Creative Research. She is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at Milieux Institute for Arts, Culture & Technology at Concordia University, Montreal, and ICS-FORTH, Heraklion.