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

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Material Encounters -- Part 1 Time and Change in Material and Object Inquiries -- Chapter 1 A Sea-Change Rich and Strange -- Chapter 2 The Present, the Past, and the Material Object -- Chapter 3 Engaging with Materials Telling the Whole Story -- Part 2 Explicating the Performative:Material, Medium, Object -- Chapter 4 The 'Extended Life' of Performance Curating 1960s Multimedia Art in the Contemporary Museum -- Chapter 5 Framing Intention Presentation as Preservation Strategy in Video Art -- Chapter 6 Out of the Box Preservation on Display -- Chapter 7 The Louvre on Celluloid Curating, Disseminating, and Preserving the Louvre's Collections in Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries -- Part 3 The Making and Unmaking of Objects and Myths -- Chapter 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 -- Chapter 9 Would You Like That With or Without Mayo? How Interdisciplinary Collaboration Slows the Spread of Popular Misconceptions in Modern Art Scholarship -- Part 4 Transitions -- Chapter 10 Materials, Objects, Transitions Jorge Otero-Pailos in Conversation with Hanna B. Hölling -- Index.

The Explicit Material focuses on objects as complex constructs of material relations, and points to the increased blurring of boundaries between practices of conservation and curation, thereby announcing a shift in sensibilities and understanding of the objects' material significance.

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