1st Edition
Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums
By Margaret Tali
Copyright 2018
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
186 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book analyzes practices of collecting in European art museums from 1989 to the present, arguing that museums actualize absence both consciously and unconsciously, while misrepresentation is an outcome of the absent perspectives and voices of minority community members which are rarely considered in relation to contemporary art. Difficult knowledge is proposed as a way of dealing with absence... Read more
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Presence of Joseph Beuys and the Struggle Over his Legacy in Berlin
Chapter 2: Absencing and Presencing in Exhibition Narratives
Chapter 3: Collectors’ Space and the Agents of Narration
Chapter 4: The Ludwig Collection in Budapest and the Absent Eastern Europe
Chapter 5: Interrogating the Archival Logic
Chapter 6: Archival Absence
Afterword: Turning Absence into Difficult Knowledge
Biography
Margaret Tali is Lecturer in Visual Art and Culture at Maastricht University.
