{"product_id":"thinking-contemporary-curating-9780916365868","title":"Thinking Contemporary Curating","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is contemporary curatorial thought? Current discourse on the topic is heating up with a new cocktail of bold ideas and ethical imperatives. These include: cooperative curating, especially with artists; the reimagination of museums; curating as knowledge production; the historicization of exhibition-making; and commitment to extra-artworld participatory activism. Less obvious, but increasingly of concern, are issues such as rethinking spectatorship, engaging viewers as co-curators and the challenge of curating contemporaneity itself. In these five essays, art historian and theorist Terry Smith surveys the international landscape of current thinking by curators; explores a number of exhibitions that show contemporaneity in recent, present and past art; describes the enormous growth world wide of exhibition infrastructure and the instability that haunts it; re-examines the contribution of artist-curators and questions the rise of curators utilizing artistic strategies; and, finally, assesses a number of key tendencies in curating as responses to contemporary conditions. \u003ci\u003eThinking Contemporary Curating \u003c\/i\u003eis the first book to comprehensively chart the variety of practices of curating undertaken today, and to think through, systematically, what is distinctive about contemporary curatorial thought.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Terry Smith","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56511670059350,"sku":"9780916365868","price":21.42,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0886\/3206\/6390\/files\/9780916365868.jpg?v=1794089149","url":"https:\/\/www.bookshop.ee\/products\/thinking-contemporary-curating-9780916365868","provider":"Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}