Curating consciousness : mysticism and the modern museum / Marcia Brennan.

Author(s): Brennan, Marcia

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Main Title
Curating consciousness : mysticism and the modern museum
Author(s)
Brennan, Marcia
Publisher
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, 2012.
Collation
285 p. : ill.
22 cm.
ISBN
9780262518093
Dewey Class
701.17
Contents
Modernism's mystical subjects: an introduction -- The nude descending a flowchart: Alfred H. Barr, Jr., and Marcel Duchamp -- Seeing the one "less seen": James Johnson Sweeney, in light of Marcel Duchamp -- Blood miracles and fire magic: the transmutational arts of Alberto Burri -- Illuminating the void, displaying the vision: Pierre Soulages -- Studies in self-creation and creative destruction: Jean Tinguely -- "A spark of light darting through empty space": Eduardo Chillida.
Language
English
Subject
Museums -- Curatorship.
Art museum curators.
BRN
7602

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