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Art and artifact : the museum as medium
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Art and artifact : the museum as medium

by James Putnam

An illustrated survey of the relationship between contemporary artists and the museum, examining how artists mimic, critique, and redefine traditional systems of archiving, classification, and display. Features numerous colour illustrations.

Accession 2014 ISBN 0500237905 Publisher Thames & Hudson
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Citing a huge range of examples, James Putnam shows the ways in which artists have been influenced by museum systems, how they have made their works into simulations of the museum, and how they have questioned the role of museums, observed their practices, intervened in them and helped to redefine them. -- Book Depository.

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