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Author:
Boldrick, Stacy  Search this
Physical description:
xiv, 195 pages illustrations (black and white) 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2020
Notes:
Purchased from the C. Michael Gooden Endowment /
Contents:
Introduction: Clean Cuts -- Using and Abusing Images and Objects: After The Destruction of Art -- Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: Iconoclasm and Institutional Integrity -- Iconoclasm's Geographies: Fallen Monuments and Broken Bodies -- Dead Images: Losing Art -- Defaced: Breaking and Remaking Art Now -- Conclusion: Hidden Histories
Summary:
"Iconoclasm and the Museum addresses the museum's historic tendency to be silent about destruction through an exploration of institutional attitudes to iconoclasm, or image breaking, and the concept's place in public display. Presenting a selection of focused case studies, Boldrick examines long-standing desires to deface, dismantle, obscure or destroy works of art and historic artefacts, as well as motivations to protect and display broken objects. Considering the effects of iconoclastic practices on artworks and cultural artefacts and how those practices are addressed in institutions, the book examines changing attitudes to the intentional destruction of powerful artworks in the past and present. It ends with an analysis of creative destruction in contemporary art making and proposes that we are entering a new phase for museums, in which they acknowledge the critical roles destruction and loss play in the lives of objects and in contemporary political life. Iconoclasm and the Museum will be important reading for academics and students in fields such as museum and gallery studies, archaeology, art history, arts management, curatorial studies, cultural studies, history, heritage and religious studies. The book should also be of great interest to museum professionals, curators and collections management specialists, and artists"-- Provided by publisher
Topic:
Art--Mutilation, defacement, etc  Search this
Museums--Collection management  Search this
Museum conservation methods  Search this
Iconoclasm--Social aspects  Search this
Iconoclasm--Political aspects  Search this
Art--Mutilation  Search this
Musées--Gestion des collections  Search this
Musées--Méthodes de conservation  Search this
Iconoclasme--Aspect social  Search this
Iconoclasme--Aspect politique  Search this
collections management  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1157286