Australian Artists in the Contemporary Museum

• Author(s): Dr Jennifer Barrett, Dr Jacqueline Millner,
• Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
• Pages: 240
• ISBN_10: 1409442497
  ISBN_13: 9781409442493
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Art / Museum Studies , Art / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism , Business & Economics / Museum Administration & Museology , Art / History / Contemporary (1945-) ,

Description:... In Australia, the artist’s engagement with the museum is traditionally regarded as having an important role in the colonial project but, as times have changed, the post-colonial viewpoint has come to the fore. The authors of Australian Artists and the Museum propose that the artists’ engagement has moved from politically informed critique taking place in museums of fine art, towards a critique of the creation of knowledge taking place in non-art museums, assuming new forms, including the artist acting as curator, art interventions that highlight the use of taxonomic modes of display and categorization, and the engagement with the aesthetics of collections to suggest different readings of objects and artefacts.