Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium

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A profusely illustrated survey of the role of contemporary artists and their work in museum presentation and display. The trend towards collaborations between artists and museum curators has in some cases involved the rehanging of existing collections or redesigning of gallery spaces. has sold millions of scholastic books to university libraries, academics, students and reflective bibliophiles throughout the world. We accept personal cheques in British Pounds as well as direct bank payments without any commission or additional charges.

Toying with the confines of the museum, artists renew its original gift of wonderment, of the power of the curator and of audience. The methods used to display artist’s work has become a tool to make tactical or political statements. The increasing trend towards collaborations between practising artists and museum curators has in some cases involved the rehanging of existing collections or redesigning of gallery spaces.

From early instances of the urge to collect exotic objects, the "cabinet of curiosities," to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museumdisplay, archiving, classification, storage, curatorshipwhich they have then appropriated, mimicked, and interpreted in their own ways. This paper was published in October 2016 as part of a Courtauld Online Books project entitled Revisiting The Monument: Fifty Years since Panofsky’s Tomb Sculpture, edited by Ann Adams and Jessica Barker.

From `cabinets of curiosities' to assemblages of found objects and imitations of museum displays, artists have often turned their attention to the ideas and systems traditionally embodied in the museum - display, archiving, classification, storage, curatorship - which they have then appropriated, mimicked and reinterpreted in their own work. Remember if you are unsatisfied in any way with any purchase, we will give you a complete and unconditional refund. This is a relationship with a long history, whose full significance has been realized in the activities of artists in recent decades. From Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Portable Museum’ Boîte-en-valise of the early 1940s to the latest interventions by artists in museums’ displays, merchandise and education, artists of the last seventy years have often turned their attention to the ideas underpinning the museum.Recurring themes include monuments as sites of liminality, the reception and visibility of tombs, the relationship between corpse and monument, and the symbolic significance of materials. He shows not only the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems and made their works into simulations of the museum, but also how they have questioned the role of museums, observed their practices, intervened in them, and helped to redefine them. By bidding on, or purchasing this item, you are agreeing to us sharing your name and address details with that 3rd party supplier to allow us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you. The methodologies extend close iconographic study of monuments to place them in their historic and social contexts, as well as in dialogue with other media.