| Description |
1 online resource (417 pages) : illustrations |
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Introduction : toward an ecology of modern categories -- Ecologies of care. Introduction : caring for the same ; The modern object of care ; The elusive object of contemporary art ; The modern subject of care -- Ecologies of containment. Introduction : the aesthetics of containment ; Containing eternity ; Eternity on the move -- Ecologies of imagination. Introduction : Into the white ; The interior space of art ; Exhibitions as material acts of imagination -- Ecologies of the digital. The work of art in the age of digital fragility -- Conclusion : the cracks of the modern imagination |
| Summary |
How do you keep the cracks in Starry Night from spreading? How do you prevent artworks made of hugs or candies from disappearing? How do you render a fading photograph eternal--or should you attempt it at all? These are some of the questions that conservators, curators, registrars, and exhibition designers dealing with contemporary art face on a daily basis. In Still Life, Fernando Domínguez Rubio delves into one of the most important museums of the world, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, to explore the day-to-day dilemmas that museum workers face when the immortal artworks that we see in the exhibition room reveal themselves to be slowly unfolding disasters. Still Life offers a fascinating and detailed ethnographic account of what it takes to prevent these disasters from happening. Going behind the scenes at MoMA, Domínguez Rubio provides a rare view of the vast technological apparatus--from climatic infrastructures and storage facilities, to conservation labs and machine rooms--and teams of workers--from conservators and engineers to guards and couriers--who fight to hold artworks still. As MoMA reopens after a massive expansion and rearranging of its space and collections, Still Life not only offers a much-needed account of the spaces, actors, and forms of labor traditionally left out of the main narratives of art, but it also offers a timely meditation on how far we, as a society, are willing to go to keep the things we value from disappearing into oblivion |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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| SUBJECT |
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) fast |
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Art museums -- Collection management -- New York (State) -- New York
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Art museums -- New York (State) -- New York -- Employees
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Art museums -- Exhibitions -- New York (State) -- New York
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Electronic books.
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e-books.
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ART -- General.
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Art museums -- Collection management
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Art museums -- Employees
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Art museums -- Exhibitions
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New York (State) -- New York
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226714110 |
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022671411X |
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