{"product_id":"art-and-artifact-the-museum-as-medium-9780500237908","title":"Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium","description":"\u003cp\u003eA profusely illustrated survey of the role of contemporary artists and their work in museum presentation and display. \"Artists today treat museums as filled not with dead art  but with living artistic options.\"Arthur Danto  \"After the End of Art\" Here is the first extensive survey of one of the most importantand intriguingthemes in art today: the often obsessive relationship between the artist and the museum. This is a relationship with a long history  whose full significance has been realized in the activities of artists in recent decades. From early instances of the urge to collect exotic objects  the \"cabinet of curiosities \" to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays  artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museumdisplay  archiving  classification  storage  curatorshipwhich they have then appropriated  mimicked  and interpreted in their own ways. Citing a wide range of examples  from Marcel Duchamps \"Portable Museum\" to Damien Hirsts distinctive use of vitrines  James Putnam examines the themes by which the artist\/museum relationship is defined and redefined. He shows not only the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made their works into simulations of the museum  but also how they have questioned the role of museums  observed their practices  intervened in them  and helped to redefine them. This is a subject around whichdirectly and indirectlycontemporary art dialogue revolves. Without rival  this is one of those rare books that will become essential reading for everyone interested in the development of art and its presentation to the public in museum displays and installations. 280 illustrations  227 in color.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45273456312373,"sku":"ByrdShop_0500237905","price":98.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780500237908.jpg?v=1780489150","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/art-and-artifact-the-museum-as-medium-9780500237908","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}