The Museum as Arena : Artists on Institutional Critique. - Kravagna, Christian; Kaprow, Allan; Smithson, Robert; Beuys, Joseph; Jonas, Joan; Laderman Ukeles, Mierle; Asher, Michael; Broodthaers, Marcel; Buren, Daniel; Cadere, André; Haacke, Hans; Piper, Adrian; et al. (Bregenz : Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2001)
As the central element of power in the cultural economy of modernism, the museum has become the artists’ subject of reflection and a target of their criticism. In response to the »death of the museum« (representing an old world and a bastion against the progressive and new) which was proclaimed well into the 1970’s, the museum itself showed an unfamiliar liveliness. Contemporary artists analyse the production of meaning and value, mechanisms of exclusion and the clash of interests, and pay particular attention to the structural and functional changes of these increasingly dynamic cultural institutions. (provided by publisher)
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