Museum Highlights
The Writings of Andrea Fraser
$154.99
- Paperback
332 pages
- Release Date
28 September 2007
Summary
Essays, criticism, and performance scripts written between 1985 and 2003 by an artist whose artistic practice investigates and reveals the social structures of art and its institutions.Andrea Fraser’s work, writes Pierre Bourdieu in his foreword to Museum Highlights, is able to “trigger a social mechanism, a sort of machine infernale whose operation causes the hidden truth of social reality to reveal itself.” It often does this by incorporating and inhabiting the social role it sets out to cr…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262562300 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262562308 |
| Author: | Andrea Fraser |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 332 |
| Release Date: | 28 September 2007 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 178mm x 17mm |
| Series: | Museum Highlights |
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Critics Review
These transcripts, along with the other essays in Museum Highlights, are a testament to Fraser’s forcefulness as a writer, one for whom the act of writing and by necessity reading and researching is indivisible from her practice as an artist.
– Pamela M. Lee * Artforum *The publication of this anthology marks a welcome occasion to reconsider the interweaving themes of Fraser’s practice in relation to each other.
– Kirsi Peltomaki * Afterimage *See the global culture industry laid bare with wit, erudition, and, above all, action.
– Kieran Long * Icon Magazine *About The Author
Andrea Fraser
Andrea Fraser is an artist and Professor of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of Museum Highlights- The Writings of Andrea Fraser, published by the MIT Press.
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