Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions Series
Auteur : Tali Margaret
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 productively.
Drawing on social art history, museology, postcolonial theory, and memory studies, Margaret Tali analyzes the collections of four modern and contemporary art museums across Europe: the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin, the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art in Budapest, the Kiasma Museum in Helsinki, and the Kumu Museum in Tallinn.
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
Margaret Tali is Lecturer in Visual Art and Culture at Maastricht University.
Date de parution : 03-2021
17.4x24.6 cm
Date de parution : 12-2017
17.4x24.6 cm
Thèmes d’Absence and Difficult Knowledge in Contemporary Art Museums :
Mots-clés :
Young Men; Hamburger Bahnhof; contemporary art; West Germany; art museums; Graphic Art Collection; museum studies; Ludwig Museum; art history; Post War; collecting; Invisible Women; Europe; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen; social art history; Hungarian National Gallery; museology; Difficult Knowledge; postcolonial theory; Ludwig’s Collection; memory studies; Joseph Beuys; York’s MoMA; Germany; Bronze Soldier; Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art; Eastern European Art; Hungary; Local Representativeness; Kiasma Museum; German National Museum; Finland; Archival Logic; Kumu Museum; Bronze Soldier Monument; Estonia; Roma Pavilion; art and politics; Arno Breker; neoliberalism; exhibitions; Romani artists; Romani art; Jewish artists; Jewish art; Russian artists; Russian art