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In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum
Matti Bunzl
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Description for In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum
Hardcover. From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, this book illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: ACX; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 173 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at a contemporary art museum. From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, Bunzl's In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions. Bunzl's ethnography is designed to show how a commitment to the avant-garde ... Read more
In 2008, anthropologist Matti Bunzl was given rare access to observe the curatorial department of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art. For five months, he sat with the institution's staff, witnessing firsthand what truly goes on behind the scenes at a contemporary art museum. From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, Bunzl's In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions. Bunzl's ethnography is designed to show how a commitment to the avant-garde ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226173818
SKU
V9780226173818
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About Matti Bunzl
Matti Bunzl is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He is the author of Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna and Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe.
Reviews for In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde: An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum
"An important, lucid, and miraculously easy-reading contribution to the ethnography of art." (Sarah Thornton, author of Seven Days in the Art World)"