Moschovi A Gust of Photo-Philia

Photography in the Art Museum
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-94-6166-369-6
Verlag: Leuven University Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 29, 332 Seiten

Reihe: Lieven Gevaert Series

The
first transnational history of photography’s accommodation in the art museum

Photography was long
regarded as a “middle-brow” art by the art institution. Yet, at the turn of the
millennium, it became the hot, global art of our time. In this book—part
institutional history, part account of shifting photographic theories and
practices—Alexandra Moschovi tells the story of photography’s accommodation in
and as contemporary art in the art museum. Archival research of key exhibitions
and the contrasting collecting policies of MoMA, Tate, the Guggenheim, the
V&A, and the Centre Pompidou offer new insights into how art as photography
and photography as art have been collected and exhibited since the 1930s.
Moschovi argues that this accommodation not only changed photography’s status
in art, culture, and society, but also played a significant role in the
rebranding of the art museum as a cultural and social site.

This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moschovi, Alexandra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Museumskunde, Materielle Kultur, Erinnerungskultur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface Acknowledgments
Introduction A Foot in the Museum’s Door A Gust of Photo-Philia The Question of the Medium The Structure of the Book
1. Photography Itself What is “Camera Esthetics”? A “Universal” Language Photography Itself “More Than One Photography” New Stories of Modern Art Navigating an “Ocean of Images”
2. The Art(s) of Photography Art Education for “All Classes” A Collection for the Art of Photography Between Form and Function Toward the “Bigger Picture” Pluralism and Participation
3. Art as Photography, Photography as Art Art as Photography The Unique Original Copy Who’s Afraid of Contemporary Art? A Photo-Philic Turn Embracing the Vernacular Photographies and Histories Engaging New Audiences
4. Postmedia Pictures A “Postmedia” Collection in the Making A Global Museum Hybrid Images Accommodating the “Polymorphous” Photographic A New Poetics of the Photographic Image
5. Between ImagesPhotography and the French State A Postmodern Museum A Collection for the Nation Episode 1: Plasticity and Hybridity Episode 2: Passages Between Media Episode 3: What is (Museum) Photography After All?
Postscript Notes Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Moschovi, Alexandra
Alexandra Moschovi is associate professor of photography and digital media in the Faculty of Arts and Creative Industries at the University of Sunderland.