The Artist As Curator.

Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Paolozzi's Lost Magic Kingdoms: The Metamorphosis of Ordinary Things -- Opening: The Limits of Objectivity -- Commission: Metaphors and Objections -- Technologies and Time: Exhibition/Catalogue -- Obsessions: Heads and Images -- Irony, Authenticity and the Stereotype -- Memento Mori: Surrealism and Death -- An Anthropological Imagination -- A Social Critique of Waste -- Images of Conflict and Combat -- A Cosmic Philosophy: Blueprints for a New Museum -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Note -- Chapter 2: Re-Mastering MoMA: Kirk Varnedoe's 'Artist's Choice' Series -- References -- Note -- Chapter 3: 'Both Object and Subject': MoMA's Burton on Brancusi -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Curating Between Worlds: How Digital Collaborations Become Curative Projects -- References -- Chapter 5: Erasure: Curator as Artist -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Say My Name -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Performing the Curator, Curating the Performer: Abramović's Seven Easy Pieces -- The Curator -- The Archive -- Performance -- Seven Easy Pieces -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Curating the City: Collectioneering and the Affects of Display -- Tempting Provenance -- Material Constellations -- Rhetorics of Display -- A Post-Medium Wunderkammer -- Typologies of Heterogeneity -- References -- Notes -- Chapter 9: Artists Curating the Expedition -- References -- Notes -- Contributors -- Index -- BackCover.

Recently, the museum and gallery have become self-reflexive spaces, in which the relationship between art, its display, its creators and its audience is subverted and democratised. Celina Jeffery brings together scholars and artists to explore the ways that artists have introduced new curatorial ways of thinking and talking about artistic culture.

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