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Author Brenson, Michael.

Title Acts of engagement : writings on art, criticism, and institutions, 1993-2002 / Michael Brenson
Published Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2004]
©2004

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Description xii, 303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Culture and politics series
Culture and politics series.
Contents 1. Fighting words -- 2. Experience, complicity, and quality -- 3. Conversation -- 4. Juan Munoz : sound, sight, statuary -- 5. Art criticism and the aesthetic response -- 6. Where do we go from here? : the place of the artist and the NEA -- 7. Resisting the dangerous journey : the crisis of journalistic criticism -- 8. Art museums and "the public" -- 9. The curator's moment -- 10. The artist as a person -- 11. Healing in time -- 12. Audience, artist, institution, community -- 13. Maya Lin's time -- 14. Sometimes out of sight, never out of mind : the story of the hand in modernist sculpture -- 15. Giacometti's Dog -- 16. Power corrupts : for Daumier, humanity was in the streets -- 17. Magdalena's Abakanowicz's War games : monumental horizontality -- 18. The media and museums -- 19. Convenience and process : private versus public arts funding -- 20. The Guggenheim, corporate populism, and the future of the corporate museum
Notes Formerly CIP. Uk
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Art and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Art, Modern -- 20th century.
LC no. 2004006819
ISBN 0742529819 cloth alkaline paper
0742529827 paperback alkaline paper