Art and Artifact: Museum as Medium
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Art and Artifact: Museum as Medium by James Putnam
From the early instances of the urge to collect objects, the "cabinet of curiosities", to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention, both creatively and critically, to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museum: display, archiving, classification, storage, curatorship. They have then appropriated, mimicked and reinterpreted these in their own work. Citing a range of examples, James Putnam shows not only the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made their works into simulations of the museum, but also how they have questioned the role of museums, observed their practices, intervened in them and helped to redefine them.
James Putnam is a curator at the British Museum, where he has staged a series of innovative contemporary art exhibitions.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780500237908 |
| ISBN 10 | 0500237905 |
| Title | Art and Artifact: Museum as Medium |
| Author | James Putnam |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-11-08 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
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