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Sculpture and the vitrine / edited by John Welchman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Subject/object: new studies in sculpturePublisher: Farnham, Surrey, England : Ashgate, 2013Description: xxii, 281 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781409435273 .
Contained works:
  • Nichols, Kate. Art and commodity
Subject(s):
Contents:
Art and commodity : sculpture under glass at the Crystal Palace / Kate Nichols -- Through the vitrine : Damien Hirst's For The Love of God / Tag Gronberg -- Magic windows : Frederick Kiesler's displays for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York in 1928 / Barnaby Haran -- Between Wunderkammer and shop window : surrealist naturalia cabinets / Marion Endt-Jones -- Sculpture in fog : Beuys's vitrines / Claudia Mesch -- Framed devices : Paul Thek's technological reliquaries / Susanne Neubauer -- Unattributed objects : the Mouse Museum, the Ray Gun Wing, and four artists / Genevieve Waller -- Fluxus soapbox / Cornelia Lauf -- Twentieth-century display case archive / Daniel Edwards -- Cults of transparency : the curtain wall and the shop window in the work of Dan Graham and Josephine Meckseper / Sarah Lookofsky -- The transparent signifier : Hirst, invisibility, and critique / Elyse Speaks -- Between inside and out / Blake Stimson.
Summary: Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility. The 12 contributions to this volume examine some of the points of origin of the vitrine and the various relations it brokers with sculpture.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Art and commodity : sculpture under glass at the Crystal Palace / Kate Nichols -- Through the vitrine : Damien Hirst's For The Love of God / Tag Gronberg -- Magic windows : Frederick Kiesler's displays for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York in 1928 / Barnaby Haran -- Between Wunderkammer and shop window : surrealist naturalia cabinets / Marion Endt-Jones -- Sculpture in fog : Beuys's vitrines / Claudia Mesch -- Framed devices : Paul Thek's technological reliquaries / Susanne Neubauer -- Unattributed objects : the Mouse Museum, the Ray Gun Wing, and four artists / Genevieve Waller -- Fluxus soapbox / Cornelia Lauf -- Twentieth-century display case archive / Daniel Edwards -- Cults of transparency : the curtain wall and the shop window in the work of Dan Graham and Josephine Meckseper / Sarah Lookofsky -- The transparent signifier : Hirst, invisibility, and critique / Elyse Speaks -- Between inside and out / Blake Stimson.

Vitrines and glass cabinets are familiar apparatuses that have in large part defined modern modes of display and visibility. The 12 contributions to this volume examine some of the points of origin of the vitrine and the various relations it brokers with sculpture.

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