Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference And Public Reception Av Stephanie (School Of Architecture At Aristotle University Greece) Bertrand

<P><EM>Contemporary Curating, Artistic Reference and Public Reception</EM> undertakes a unique critical survey and analysis of prevailing group exhibition-making practices in Europe, the UK and North America.</P><P>Drawing on curatorial literature and two in-depth case studies of group exhibitions, Bertrand advocates for a mode of curatorial practice that secures the content of artworks, in contrast to prevailing open-ended, indeterminate approaches. Proposing a third exhibition type beyond the current binary exhibition ontology that opposes art historical narratives to curatorial installations or <I>Gesamtkunstwerk</I>, the book directly tackles the enduring critique of curating as a mediating activity that produces sameness in group-exhibition contexts by establishing artistic equivalences. The book relies on the principles of analytical philosophy to assess how different exhibition-making approaches fix reference and determine artistic reception, reintroducing a standard to evaluate