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The culture of curating and the curating of culture(s) /

O'Neill, Paul, 1970-

The culture of curating and the curating of culture(s) / - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2012. - xii, 180 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 : the emeregence of curatorial discourse from the late 1960s to the present -- 2 : biennial culture and the emergence of a globalized curatorial discourse : curating in the context of biennials and large-scale exhibitions since 1989 -- 3 : curating as a medium of artistic practice : the convergence of art and curatorial practice since the 1990s -- Notes -- Index.

In this volume, Paul O'Neill examines the emergence of independent curatorship and the discourse that helped to establish it. He describes how, by the 1980s, curated group exhibitions came to be understood as the creative work of curator-auteurs.

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Art--Exhibition techniques.
Art and society.

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