The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures

Author:   Hanna B. Hölling ,  Francesca G. Bewer ,  Katharina Ammann
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   1
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9789004372818


Pages:   290
Publication Date:   24 July 2019
Format:   Hardback
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The Explicit Material: Inquiries on the Intersection of Curatorial and Conservation Cultures


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The Explicit Material gathers varied perspectives from the discourses of conservation, curation and humanities disciplines to focus on aspects of heritage transmission and material transitions. The authors observe and explicate the myriad transformations that works of different kinds - manuscripts, archaeological artefacts, video art, installations, performances, film, and built heritage - may undergo: changing contexts, changing matter, changing interpretations and display. Focusing on the vibrant materiality of artworks and artefacts, The Explicit Material puts an emphasis on objects as complex constructs of material relations. By so doing, it announces a shift in sensibilities and understandings of the significance of objects and the materials they are made of, and on the increasingly blurred boundaries between the practices of conservation and curation.

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Author:   Hanna B. Hölling ,  Francesca G. Bewer ,  Katharina Ammann
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   1
Weight:   0.750kg
ISBN:  

9789004372818


ISBN 10:   9004372814
Pages:   290
Publication Date:   24 July 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock   Availability explained
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Preface  Hanna Hölling List of Figures Contributors Introduction: Material Encounters  Hanna B. Hölling, Francesca G. Bewer, and Katharina Ammann Part 1: Time and Change in Material and Object Inquiries 1 A Sea-Change Rich and Strange  David Lowenthal 2 The Present, the Past, and the Material Object  Paul Eggert 3 Engaging with Materials Telling the Whole Story  Elizabeth Pye Part 2: Explicating the Performative: Material, Medium, Object 4 The ‘Extended Life’ of Performance Curating 1960s Multimedia Art in the Contemporary Museum  Judit Bodor 5 Framing Intention Presentation as Preservation Strategy in Video Art  Katharina Ammann 6 Out of the Box Preservation on Display  Anna Schäffler 7 The Louvre on Celluloid Curating, Disseminating, and Preserving the Louvre’s Collections in Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries  Birgit Cleppe Part 3: The Making and Unmaking of Objects and Myths 8 The Material Forms of the Past and the ‘Afterlives’ of the Compositiones variae Recovering, Conserving, and Exhibiting the Personal History of an Early Medieval Manuscript  Thea Burns 9 Would You Like That With or Without Mayo? How Interdisciplinary Collaboration Slows the Spread of Popular Misconceptions in Modern Art Scholarship  Dawn V. Rogala Part 4: Transitions 10 Materials, Objects, Transitions Jorge Otero-Pailos in Conversation with Hanna Hölling Index

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Hanna B. Hölling, Ph.D., is Lecturer in Art History and Material Studies at the UCL’s Department of History of Art and Research Professor at the Bern University of the Arts. She has published on the subject of time, archive, change and materiality in artworks and objects of material culture. Francesca G. Bewer, Ph.D., is Research Curator for Conservation and Technical Studies Programs and Director of the Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art at the Harvard Art Museums. She has published on the technology of bronze sculpture and on the history of conservation.    Katharina Ammann, Ph.D., is head of department and member of the management board of the Swiss Institute for Art Research (SIK-ISEA) in Zurich. She has published on video art and been a museum curator for Swiss and contemporary art.

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