FAA 8007 - Critical History of Curating

Institution:

University of Cincinnati-Main Campus

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Description:

This class is an introduction to the history of curating in the last century in Europe and North America. It provides an introduction to early curatorial practices of public collections in Italy and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the context of contemporary artists' citations of historical examples. The class evaluates the curating ideas behind the Whitney Biennial, New York, from its genesis to the present, before considering the role played by high-profile itinerant curators in recent international surveys like Documenta and the Venice Biennale. To initiate research into the curatorial practice of artists, the class will study well-known examples of museum shows assembled by artists including significant American and British artist-run spaces in the 1990s. This class aims to develop an understanding of current scholarship on the history of curatorial practice, with an emphasis on work of the last 40 years. Students will explore an extremely wide range of examples from the twentieth century and will be able to recognize the indicators of change in curatorial strategies and explain their causes.

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.uc.edu

Phone Number:

(513) 556-6000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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