What is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. these include: cooperative curating; especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibitionmaking; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious; but increasingly of concern; are issues such as rethinking spectatorship; engaging viewers as co-curators and the challenge of curating contemporaneity itself. In these five essays; art historian and theorist Terry Smith surveys the international landscape of current thinking by curators; explores a number of exhibitions that show contemporaneity in recent; present and past art; describes the enormous growth world wide of exhibition infrastructure and the instability that haunts it; re-examines the contribution of artist-curators and questions the rise of curators utilizing artistic strategies; and; finally; assesses a number of key tendencies in curating as responses to contemporary conditions. Thinking Contemporary Curating is the first book to comprehensively chart the variety of practices of curating undertaken today; and to think through; systematically; what is distinctive about contemporary curatorial thought.This is the eBook edition of Thinking Contemporary Curating; print form to be published in September 2012.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. An Essential and Engaging BookBy Art LoverThose interested in the great American art form of jazz will want to add this book to their libraries. For those with an interest in the pianist Bud Powell it is essential reading. Musicologist Guthrie Ramsey has penned a deeply knowledgable and original piece of scholarship on this seminal jazz pianist. The books looks not only at Powells musical innovations; but also examines his formative musical and personal background and the context in which his innovations were shaped.Using a deft and engaging wrting style that will engage both lay readers; jazz aficionados and academics alike; Ramsey has penned an indispensable and seminal book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Well worth reading and great to see something that helps increase Buds exposureBy David WrightAn in depth study of Bud; but one that takes a broader stance than existing ones; including social and political ones. Well worth reading and great to see something that helps increase Buds exposure. He is ridiculously uner-heard.6 of 8 people found the following review helpful. An Amazing Book about an Amazing MusicianBy H. JonesThis is an amazing book. It not only tells the story of Bud Powell; but puts that story in context so that the reader is fully immersed in the world of the time. Bud Powell had many "deficiencies;" but though those complicated his life; his genius as a musician is fully recognized here and the difficulties he had to contend with are made plain. Jazz students today should study what musicians lived through in the mid-20th century to understand the struggle that preceded them; and celebrate the lives of musicians like Bud Powell.