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John C. Welchman Dr. Penelope Curtis

Sculpture and the Vitrine

John C. Welchman,  Dr. Penelope Curtis,  Ms. Lisa Le Feuvre

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English
Routledge
27 August 2013
Sculpture
Series: Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture
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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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm,  Spine: 19mm
Weight:   793g
ISBN:   9781409435273
ISBN 10:   140943527X
Series:   Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture
Pages:   304
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Primary ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John C. Welchman is Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego, USA. Lisa Le Feuvre, John C. Welchman, Kate Nichols, Tag Gronberg, Barnaby Haran, Marion Endt-Jones, Claudia Mesch, Susanne Neubauer, Genevieve Waller, Cornelia Lauf, Daniel Edwards, Sarah Lookofsky, Elyse Speaks, Blake Stimson.

Reviews for Sculpture and the Vitrine

Classified as 'Research Essential' by Baker & Taylor YBP Library Services A Yankee Book Peddler US and UK Core Title for 2013 '... the strengths of the book lie in the essays that speak most closely to the history of collections and to mechanisms of artistic and curatorial control... this is a thought-provoking collection of essays, that considers a variety of curatorial, artistic, economic, temporal and sensory aspects of display.' Journal of the History of Collections


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