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Curatorial Activism Maura Reilly

Curatorial Activism By Maura  Reilly

Curatorial Activism by Maura Reilly


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Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating by Maura Reilly

Only 16% of the most recent Venice Biennale artists were female. A mere 14% of MoMA's 2016 display is by non-white artists. Only one third of artists represented by US galleries are female, but over two-thirds of the enrolment in art and art-history programmes is young women... The fight for gender and race equality in the art world is far from over. Indeed, the more closely one examines the numbers, the more glaring it becomes that white, Euro-American, heterosexual, privileged and, above all, male artists continue to dominate the art world.

Arranged in thematic sections focusing on feminism, race and sexuality, this book examines and illustrates pioneering examples of exhibitions that have broken down boundaries and demonstrated that new approaches are possible, from Nochlin's 'Women Artists' at the LACMA in the mid-1970s to Martin's 'Carambolages' in 2016 at the Grand Palais in Paris. By exposing both the disparities and inclusive solutions, the author addresses the urgent need in the contemporary art world for curatorial strategies that provide alternatives to exclusionary models of collecting and display. In so doing, she provides an invaluable source of information for current thinkers and, in a world dominated by visual culture, a vital source of inspiration for today's ever-expanding new generation of curators.

Curatorial Activism Reviews

'A fascinating, well-told account ... the art world would do well to heed the arguments of this provocative and informative book' - Art Quarterly

About Maura Reilly

Maura Reilly is the founding curator of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she organized the critically acclaimed Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art, co-curated with Linda Nochlin.

Table of Contents

Foreword * Preface * 1. What is Curatorial Activism? * 2. Resisting Masculinism and Sexism * 3. Tackling White Privilege and Western-Centrism * 4. Challenging Heterocentrism and Lesbo-Homophobia * 5. A Call to Arms: Strategies for Change

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GOR009563104
9780500239704
0500239703
Curatorial Activism: Towards an Ethics of Curating by Maura Reilly
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Thames & Hudson Ltd
2018-03-08
240
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