Greetings, Museum-L-ers:
I ran across this thread during a newsgroup search, and thought I could
add to the comments by Mindy Lehran Cameron about the Fred Wilson _Mining
the Museum_ exhibit.
I recently indexed a book called _Rethinking American History Painting_
ed. by Burnham and Giese, pub. by Cambridge Univ. Press. It contains a
sizable discussion about the work mentioned above, others by Fred Wilson,
and related works by other artists and museums.
The production controller for the book says it should be in stores this
month.
(If any of you look at the book, please check the index and send comments
to me- we professional indexers rarely get feedback from a book's readers.)
Neva Smith
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The comments above are in response to:
From: Lee Boyko <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Art As Tool
I am organizing a seminar on the use of art by museums to show things
that are not directly related to the art as an object. What do I mean?
Well how about using paintings of a city to explain its history or using
Rembrandt to learn about clothing. I am not so much interested in an exhibit
developed by an individual artist to show a theme but rather the curated
exhibit that uses the art as a tool to tell another story.
AND
Fred Wilson is an artist who has curated with museums to tell a story using
their collections. I saw a show of his called "Mining the Museum" at the
Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore, Maryland in which he told a history
of African Americans. In it, for example, he had a vitrine filled with
silver objects from around the mid-nineteenth century (i.e., the Civil War).
There were cream pitchers and silverware and then there was a slave shackle
also made of silver just there simply among the artifacts. He did a show at
the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton, New York which was featured in Art
Forum I believe, and also an exhibition at the Whitney.
Mindy Lehrman Cameron
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voice: (512) 244-2767 Editor, _Library Currents_
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