Title: The museum as muse : artists reflect /
Authors: McShine, Kynaston.; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art : Distributed by H.N. Abrams,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Wall, Jeff,; Oppenheim, Dennis,; Wilson, Fred,; Oldenburg, Claes,; Wearing, Gillian,; Acconci, Vito,; Förg, Günther,; Hamilton, Richard,; Artists and museums Exhibitions.; Museums in art Exhibitions.; Art Exhibition techniques Exhibitions.; Art, Modern Themes, motives Exhibitions
Abstract: "Te Museum as Muse: Artsts Reflect surveys te ways n wc artsts, mostly of te present century, ave addressed te museum, commented on ts nature, confronted ts concepts and functons, drawn from ts metods, and examned ts relatonsp to te art t contans. Ts lvely, nvolvng, and ntellectually provocatve presentaton encompasses a tremendous varety of artworks, large and small, ntmate and expansve, n medums bot famlar and surprsng: pantngs, sculptures, potograps, drawngs, prnts, vdeos, and nstallatons. Fully llustrated wt te works of an nternatonal cross secton of more tan sxty artsts, ts volume makes a substantal and lastng contrbuton to our understandng of te ntertwnng, contnually metamorposng relatonsp between artsts and museums."--BOOK JACKET. "Publsed by Te Museum of Modern Art, New York, n 1999 on te occason of te major exbton Te Museum as Muse: Artsts Reflect, ts book features an ntroductory essay by Kynaston McSne, Senor Curator n te Department of Pantng and Sculpture at Te Museum of Modern Art and drector of te exbton. In te ensung plate secton, sort entres by several autors on te art and artsts accompany 233 full-color and black-and-wte llustratons representng a wde dversty of works of art. Among tem are potograps of people, art, spaces, and events taken nsde museums, by suc artsts as Henr Carter-Bresson, Ellott Erwtt, Eve Arnold, Garry Wnogrand, and Tomas Strut. Personal museums and cabnets of curostes, large and n mnature, ave been created by Carles Wllson Peale, Marcel Ducamp, Josep Cornell, Claes Oldenburg, Fluxus, and Mark Don: oters ave focused on fantastc mages of te destructon or transformaton of museums, suc as te panter Hubert Robert (te frst curator of te Louvre), Edward Rusca, Komar and Melamd, and Crsto."--BOOK JACKET. "Ts wealt of materal s followed by an antology of manfestos, statements, and medtatons wrtten by artsts n ts century; bograpes and exbton stores of te artsts; and a bblograpy of general and monograpc publcatons."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Vito Acconci -- Eve Arnold -- Art & Language -- Michael Asher -- Lothar Baumgarten -- Barbara Bloom -- Christian Boltanski -- Marcel Broodthaers -- Daniel Buren -- Sophie Calle -- Janet Cardiff -- Henri Cartier-Bresson -- Christo -- Joseph Cornell -- Jan Dibbets -- Lutz Dille -- Mark Dion -- Herbert Distel -- Marcel Duchamp -- Kate Ericson -- Elliott Erwitt -- Roger Fenton -- Robert Filliou -- Larry Fink -- Fluxus -- Günther Förg -- Andrea Fraser -- General Idea -- Hans Haacke -- Richard Hamilton -- Susan Hiller -- Candida Höfer -- Komar and Melamid -- Louise Lawler -- Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray -- Jac Leirner -- Zoe Leonard -- Sherrie Levine -- El Lissitzky -- Allan McCollum -- Christian Milovanoff -- Vik Muniz -- Claes Oldenburg -- Dennis Oppenheim -- Charles Willson Peale -- Hubert Robert -- Edward Ruscha -- David Seymour -- Robert Smithson -- Thomas Struth -- Hiroshi Sugimoto -- Charles Thurston Thompson -- Stephen Thompson -- Jeff Wall -- Gillian Wearing