In Search of a Lost Avant-Garde - An Anthropologist Investigates the Contemporary Art Museum

From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, this book illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions.

About the author

Matti Bunzl is professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He is the author of Symptoms of Modernity: Jews and Queers in Late-Twentieth-Century Vienna and Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe.

Summary

From fund-raising and owner loans to museum-artist relations to the immense effort involved in safely shipping sixty works from twenty-seven lenders in fourteen cities and five countries, this book illustrates the inner workings of one of Chicago's premier cultural institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Matti Bunzl, Bunzl Matti
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2014
• EAN: 9780226173818
• ISBN: 978-0-226-17381-8
• No. of pages: 128
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; The arts: general issues, ART / Museum Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Museology & heritage studies, Museology and heritage studies, The arts: general topics