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Once considered a mere caretaker for collections, the curator is now widely viewed as a globally connected auteur. Over the last twenty-five years, as international group exhibitions and biennials have become the dominant mode of presenting contemporary art to the public, curatorship has begun to be perceived as a constellation of creative activities not unlike artistic praxis. The curator has gone from being a behind-the-scenes organizer and selector to a visible, centrally important cultural producer. In The Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s), Paul O'Neill examines the emergence of independent curatorship and the discourse that helped to establish it.O'Neill argues that this change in the understanding of curatorship was shaped by a curator-centered discourse that effectively advocatedżand authorizedżthe new independent curatorial practice. Drawing on the extensive curatorial literature and his own interviews with leading curators, critics, art historians, and artists, O'Neill traces the development of the curator-as-artist model and the ways it has been contested.

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Book category Books in English The arts History of art / art & design styles History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -

• Full title: Culture of Curating and the Curating of Culture(s)
• Author: Paul O'Neill
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 194
• EAN: 9780262529747
• ISBN: 9780262529747
• ID: 01006023
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 430 g
• Dimensions: 180 × 229 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 02. September 2016

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