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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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