On the Museum's Ruins

by Crimp, Douglas; Lawler, Louise

• ISBN13: 9780262531269
• ISBN10: 0262531267
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-03-27
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

On the Museum's Ruinspresents Douglas Crimp's criticism of contemporary art, its institutions, and its politics alongside photographic works by the artist Louise Lawler to create a collaborative project that is itself an example of postmodern practice at its most provocative. Crimp elaborates the new paradigm of postmodernism through analyses of art practices broadly conceived, not only the practices of artists-Robert Rauschenberg, Cindy Sherman, Marcel Broodthaers, Richard Serra, Sherrie Levine, and Robert Mapplethorpe-but those of critics and curators, of international exhibitions, and of new or refurbished museums such as the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart and the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. The essays: - Photographs at the End of Modernism. - On the Museum's Ruins. - The Museum's Old, the Library's New Subject. - The End of Painting. - The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism. - Appropriating Appropriation. - Redefining Site Specificity. - This is Not a Museum of Art. - The Art of Exhibition. - The Postmodern Museum.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments	viii
Introduction	1	(1)
Photographs at the End of Modernism	2	(41)
Photography in the Museum	43	(106)
On the Museum's Ruins	44	(22)
The Museum's Old, the Library's New Subject	66	(18)
The End of Painting	84	(24)
The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism	108	(18)
Appropriating Appropriation	126	(23)
The End of Sculpture	149	(50)
Redefining Site Specificity	150	(49)
Postmodern History	199	(133)
This Is Not a Museum of Art	200	(36)
The Art of Exhibition	236	(46)
The Postmodern Museum	282	(50)
Credits	332	(1)
Index	333