xviii, 290 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Bibliographic Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents:
Introduction: Material encounters / Hanna B. Hölling, Francesca G. Bewer, and Katharina Ammann -- A sea-change rich and strange / David Lowenthal -- The present, the past, and the material object / Paul Eggert -- Engaging with materials : telling the whole / Elizabeth Pye -- The 'extended life' of performance : curating 1960s multimedia art in the contemporary museum / Judit Bodor -- Framing intention : presentation as preservation strategy in video art / Katharina Ammann -- Out of the box : preservation on display / Anna Schaffler -- The Louvre on celluloid : curating, disseminating, and preserving the Louvre's Collections in mid-twentieth-century art documentaries / Birgit Cleppe -- The material forms of the past and the 'afterlives' of the compositiones variae : recovering, conserving, and exhibiting the personal history of an early medieval manuscript / Thea Burns -- Would you like that with or without mayo? How interdisciplinary collaboration slows the spread of popular misconceptions in modern art scholarship / Dawn V. Rogala -- Materials, objects, transitions : Jorge Otero-Pailos in conversation with Hanna Hölling
Summary:
"The Explicit Material gathers varied perspectives from the discourses of conservation, curation and humanities disciplines to focus on aspects of heritage transmission and material transitions. The authors observe and explicate the myriad transformations that works of different kinds -- manuscripts, archaeological artefacts, video art, installations, performances, film, and built heritage -- may undergo: changing contexts, changing matter, changing interpretations and display. Focusing on the vibrant materiality of artworks and artefacts, The Explicit Material puts an emphasis on objects as complex constructs of material relations. By so doing, it announces a shift in sensibilities and understandings of the significance of objects and the materials they are made of, and on the increasingly blurred boundaries between the practices of conservation and curation"-- Provided by publisher